Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps Simon Briggs

Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps by Simon Briggs

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Presents the history of 124 years of Ashes cricket between England and Australia. This book contains the profiles of great players from WG Grace to KP Pietersen, and covers examples of the dark art of 'sledging'. It also includes 75 black-and-white photographs, and incorporates more than 100 of the Ashes quotations.

Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps: A Sledger's History of the Ashes by Simon Briggs

In September 1882, The Sporting Times published a mock obituary for English cricket, and a great sporting rivalry was born. Relations between England and Australia have never been the same since. Every other year, the two teams gather for the traditional frenzy of backbiting, finger-pointing and dubious facial hair. For a list of every Ashes century and five-wicket haul, try Wisden, but if you want to know which Australian captain punched his chairman of selectors on the nose, which England batsman was a martyr to syphilis and which great fast bowler reckoned the Queen had 'nice legs for an old Sheila', then Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps is the book for you. Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps is a rip-roaring history of 124 years of Ashes cricket between England and Australia. It exposes the seamy side of Ashes cricket - the inside story behind controversies from the Bodyline series of 1932-33 to the Lillee and Thomson blitzkrieg of 1974-75. It profiles great players from W.G. Grace to K.P. Pietersen, and captures choice examples of the dark art of 'sledging'. Embellished with some 75 black-and-white photographs, and incorporating more than 100 of the wittiest and most wounding Ashes quotations, Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps is the perfect gift for cricket fans, whether English or Australian.

Foreword by Geoff Lawson Introduction Acknowledgements The Birth of the Ashes 1882-1911: Perfidious Albion; W.G. Grace - The Perpetual Schoolboy; When Ivo Goes Back with the Urn; There Was an Old Man with a Beard; The Golden Age - or Was It?; Charles III and the Maharajah; Sydney Barnes - Class Warrior; The First Great Series. From Bosanquet to Gregory - Cricket's Arms Race 1903-1929: The Googly - Cricket's Wrong'un; Slings and Arrows; Warwick Armstrong - New Grace or Disgrace?; The Boardroom Brawl; The Launch of The Big Ship; Double-Quick; An Officer and a Gamesman; Pray God, No Professional Shall Captain England; The Intemperance Society; Jealous Rivals. Don's Delight - The Bradman Era 1930-1948: Bradman's Summer of Summits; Douglas Jardine - Made in Scotland from Girders; I've Got It, He's Yellow!; The Onslaught Begins; Evasive Action; The Battle of Adelaide; First Blood; The Cable War; The Most Hated Man in Australia; A Catholic Conspiracy?; Captain Bradman and the Mutineers; A Feud Renewed; The Ikin Catch; Miller and Lindwall - Aussies in Excelsis; The Morality of Bouncers; Bradman's Last Stand. In Search of Brighter Cricket - 1950-1970: Lord Hawke's Prayer Rejected; The Blocker and the Chucker; The Typhoon Blows in; Laker Superior; Benaud's Bent-Arm Army; And Then There Were None; Total Team Spirit; When Ted Met Fred; The Dreariest Decade; Defender of the Realm. Reign of Fire - 1970-1987: Street Fighting Men; Every Quick for Himself; Bottles and Beercans; The Spores of Wrath; The Killing Fields; The Ultimate Wang-er; Different Strokes; Different Folks; The Revolution Will Be Televised; Lambs to the Slaughter; A Great Ashes Romance; The Miracle of Headingley; Notoriouser and Notoriouser; Beefy's Last Bow. The Baggy Green Machine - 1989-Present: Captain Australia; Revenge of the Amateurs; David Gower's Flying Circus; The Ball of the Century; A Word in Your Ear; Captain Grumpy; Waugh's Aussies - Invincible or Unspeakable?; The Urn Returns. Index of Players Picture Acknowledgements.

Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps Simon Briggs

Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps by Simon Briggs

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