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The Official MCC Story of the Ashes
A fully revised and updated edition of this illustrated history of world cricket's most famous international rivalry - England v Australia. Filled with stories, memorabilia and pictures, this book details the amazing battles for cricketing glory, dating back more than 140 years.
Sports Writing
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On Our Selection
"On our selection is an alternative history of Australian cricket. It asks what-if questions and reimagines our national game. White it would be nice to think that Australia's test selectors always picked the best players they have not been infallible. Using 66 case studies from 1877 to the present, noted sports historian Bernard Whimpress reflects on choices made and not made: well-credentialled players overlooked when fit and ready for action, or their careers ended before their time; players wrongly chosen in the first instance and perserved with when their performances do not demand their retention; times when opportunities are missed, when selectorial falir is called for, when stodgy thinking limits possibilities. ... The search for team balance is often elusive and while the subject of this book is restricted to test cricket it is recognised that the competing forms of limited-over and Twenty20 cricket make the selection task more difficult in the modern era."--Back cover.
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The Official Ashes Treasures
An entertaining array of pictures, anecdotes, player profiles, facsimiles and memorabilia to delight any fan. The Official Ashes Treasures is the perfect way to celebrate cricket's most fiercely contested series. 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. As well as a running history of the series, special features are interspersed, highlighting some of the legends from each team, the controversies and the media. And, unique to the Treasures series, there are 30 items of facsimile cricket memorabilia from the past 120 years to pick up and hold.
Official MCC Story of the Ashes
"In association with the MCC Museum at Lord's."
George Giffen
“The first Test all-rounder to reach the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets, George Giffen is the only Australian player to achieve the first-class milestone of 10,000 runs and 1000 wickets while playing predominately in his home country. The first South Australian Test cricketer, a member of the Australian team that own the inaugural 'Ashes' match at The Oval in 1882, he toured England with four other Australian sides, and was the first SA player to captain the national team.”--Back cover.
Ernie Jones: Australia’s First Fast Bowler
Born in a country town in South Australia in a house built by his Welsh father, Ernie Jones (1869-1943) was the archetypal ‘rough diamond’ fast bowler, arguably Australia’s first, inevitably a big hitter, and an inspiration to poets. He is said to have bowled or even thrown the ball ‘through W.G. Grace’s beard’ in the first match of Australia’s tour of England in 1896. In the winters he was a top-level Australian Rules footballer. With help from 'Jonah’s' descendants and from local archive material, Bernard Whimpress, a leading historian of Australian cricket, traces a remarkable career in which he even signed up to play for Sussex. On the way we take in Australia’s mining cities of Broken Hill and Kalgoorlie, the tragedies of the deaths of his children, labouring at the Adelaide Oval, working as a wharfie at Fremantle, and doing the heavy work, searching ships as a Customs man. Jones’ story is a big man’s struggle against adversity.
