The birth of the Ashes, the amazing story of the first Ashes test
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The birth of the Ashes, the amazing story of the first Ashes test
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Includes bibliography (p. 172-173) and index
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The birth of the Ashes
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the amazing story of the first Ashes test
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What is the reality behind the mythology of The Ashes? The amazing and unexpected answers are revealed in this deeply researched book which will fascinate every cricket lover round the world. Here, for the first time, the Oval Test match of 1882 - every bit as dramatic as anything in the 2005 season - is recreated ball by ball all the way to the agonising climax when Australia won by 7 runs. Here, too, is the social context of that match, from the founding of Australia, spiced with a host of insights into how cricket was born and how it grew in a vast, rugged land - and how the Australians first came to England to take on the Mother Country
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