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Covers the history of Australian cricket from the first game on Australian soil in 1803 to the end of the 1991-92 season. Written by an esteemed sports writer whose previous book TAustralian Cricket: The game and the players' won the 1982 English Cricket Society Jubilee Literary Award. Includes a foreword by Allan Border, test match statistics 1876-1992 and an index.
Revised and updated second edition of an illustrated history of Australian cricket, originally published in 1992. Includes scorecards of all Tests played from 1877 to 1995. Includes index. The author is a sports journalist who has produced more than 70 books on sporting topics.
This book examines the beginnings of the Australian game in the early 19th century and demonstrates the influence of English touring teams of the 1860s and 1870s and the coaches they left behind them.
With forewords by Sir Leonard Hutton, Sir Donald Bradman and Alan McGilvray, this large-format illustrated history tells the story of Anglo-Australian cricket from 1877 to 1989. Voted Britain's Magazine Sportswriter of the Year in 1988, the author is founding editor of TWisden's Cricket Monthly' and has published several books on cricket.
"In association with the MCC Museum at Lord's."
Shane Warne, Bodyline and the World Series breakaway … The touchstones of the Ashes loom large in the consciousness of two proud and competitive nations. This book joins the dots in a comprehensive account of the Ashes Tests, from their informal beginnings in the 1860s to the mightly battle of 2005 when England reclaimed the urn to Australia’s 5–0 whitewash in 2007.The book reviews each decade with a feast of lively anecdotes and fascinating eyewitness accounts, highlighting legends of the game from Jack Hobbs to Dennis Lillee, as well as those unfortunately (or best) forgotten. Packed with argument-busting statistics and handsomely illustrated, this definitive volume tracks the development of cricket’s ultimate contest from a money-making exercise to one of the world’s most enduring and feisty sporting rivalries.