Rob Smyth

Gentlemen and Sledgers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the celebrated mock obituary following England's first-ever defeat by Australia on home soil in 1882, to the on-pitch insults (or 'sledges') of today, ashes cricket has spawned nearly as many memorable quotes as it has balls bowled and runs scored.

Gentlemen and Sledgers charts the ebb and flow of Anglo-Australian cricketing fortunes across 131 years and 314 matches by telling the stories behind 100 memorable ashes quotations. From fast bowler Jeff Thomson's classic 'I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch' in 1975, to Michael Clark's notorious advice to Jimmy Anderson to 'get ready for a f****** broken arm' in 2013, the quotations embrace quips, insults, examples of the dark art of sledging - and even the occasional considered cricketing judgement.

Evoking memorable moments and matches as well as highs and lows in the careers of Australia and England's greatest players, Gentlemen and Sledgers is an informal, freewheeling, discursive and entertainingly opinionated history of the ashes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784080792
• Artikelnr.: 42616666

Autorenporträt

Rob Smyth is a specialist in modern sport history who has written for the Guardian, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, FourFourTwo, Yahoo, ITV, Intelligent Life, GQ and Virgin Media. He is co-author of Danish Dynamite, one of the Observer's Sports Books of the Year 2014, and was highly commended at the 2010 Sports Journalists' Association awards.

Rezensionen

A wonderful book that is an excellent reminder of cricket's past, some great slices of history backed up with some fantastic pictures... a must have for all cricket fans and a book that you are able to dip in and out of not just during the summer of cricket' Goodreads