The Official MCC Story of the Ashes: A Blow-by-Blow Account of Cricket's Greatest Rivalry - Hardcover

Whimpress, Bernard; Marylebone Cricket Club

9781780979724: The Official MCC Story of the Ashes: A Blow-by-Blow Account of Cricket's Greatest Rivalry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178097972X ISBN 13: 9781780979724

Publisher: Welbeck Publishing, 2017

The Official MCC Story of the Ashes is the perfect way to celebrate cricket's most fiercely contested series. As well as giving a running history of the series, special features are interspersed, highlighting some of the legends from each team, the controversies and the media. This latest edition, published in the lead-up to the 2017-18 Ashes series, includes a feature on the 2015 series in England which ended 3-2 to the hosts, but only after some nerve-shredding moments. From the late 19th century, England and Australia have met twice every four years and since 1882, the prize for the series winners has been a tiny urn, purportedly containing the ashes of a bail burned after England had lost at The Oval.

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About the Author:

Bernard Whimpress is an historian and curator of the Adelaide Oval Museum. He has published and edited the Australian cricket journal Baggy Green since 1998. He co-wrote the Andre Deutsch book Great Ashes Battles (2006) and has written the updates for Chris Harte's seminal History of Australian Cricket. A member of the Australian Society for Sports History, Bernard lives and works in South Australia.

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