Stiff Upper Lips & Baggy Green Caps
A Sledger's History of the Ashes
$65.71
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
6 June 2013
Summary
Peppered with bouncers, expletives, and even the odd diplomatic incident, this is a rip-roaring journey through over a century of Ashes history.
For a list of every Ashes century and five-wicket haul, try Wisden, but if you want to know which England batsman was a martyr to syphilis and which Australian fast bowler reckoned the Queen had ‘nice legs for an old Sheila’, then read on… Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps exposes the seamy side of Ashes cricket. It gi…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780879956 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780879954 |
| Author: | Simon Briggs |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | 2nd Revised edition |
| Release Date: | 6 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
‘Rollicking good fun’ Observer.
‘A history of the Ashes with more spice than you will find in a curry-house kitchen’ Daily Telegraph. * Daily Telegraph *
‘An entertaining, timely and irreverent trip through the history of the Ashes’ Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
‘Rollicking good fun’ Observer. * Observer *
Simon Briggs
Simon Briggs covers tennis and cricket for the Daily Telegraph. He grew up in Oxford, in a house full of academics, then studied history at Cambridge, but no-one has ever discovered which period. He lives in London.
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