Cricket's Burning Passion: Ivo Bligh and the Story of the Ashes - Softcover

Berry Scyld & Peploe Rupert

9780413776631: Cricket's Burning Passion: Ivo Bligh and the Story of the Ashes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413776638 ISBN 13: 9780413776631

Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2008

'Cricket's Burning Passion' is at once an historic account of the very first Ashes tour and a love story involving England's aristocratic cricket captain and a young Australian piano teacher.

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About the Author:

Scyld Berry has been cricket correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph since 1993 and, since 1978, has covered every England tour except one. He has been appointed editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for the 2008 edition. He is a keen club cricketer and lives with his family in Bristol.Rupert Peploe is a great-grandson of Ivo and Florence Darnley. He has a business conserving period furniture for museums and the antiques trade and lives with his family in Bristol.

Synopsis:

After England's cricketers famously lost to Australia at the Oval in August 1882 a mock obituary notice was published in the "Sporting Times", announcing that 'the body [of English cricket] would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia'. It was this announcement that brought 'the Ashes' into existence.

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