Stiff Upper Lips & Baggy Green Caps
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Stiff Upper Lips & Baggy Green Caps by Simon Briggs
Peppered with bouncers, expletives, and even the odd diplomatic incident, this is a rip-roaring journey through over a century of Ashes history. For a list of every Ashes century and five-wicket haul, try Wisden, but if you want to know which England batsman was a martyr to syphilis and which Australian fast bowler reckoned the Queen had 'nice legs for an old Sheila', then read on...Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps exposes the seamy side of Ashes cricket. It gives the inside story behind controversies from the Bodyline series of 1932-33 and the Lillee and Thomson blitzkrieg of 1974-75, right up to the unseemly modern spats that ensure that this biannual frenzy of backbiting, finger-pointing and dubious facial hair remains one of the great events of the sporting calendar.
'A history of the Ashes with more spice than you will find in a curry-house kitchen' Daily Telegraph* Daily Telegraph *
'An entertaining, timely and irreverent trip through the history of the Ashes' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
'Rollicking good fun' Observer. * Observer *
'An entertaining, timely and irreverent trip through the history of the Ashes' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
'Rollicking good fun' Observer. * Observer *
Simon Briggs covers tennis and cricket for the Daily Telegraph. He grew up in Oxford, in a house full of academics, then studied history at Cambridge, but no-one has ever discovered which period. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780879956 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780879954 |
| Title | Stiff Upper Lips & Baggy Green Caps |
| Author | Simon Briggs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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