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What is the England v Australia Ashes Origin Story? As we all know, the England v Australia rivalry in cricket goes back a long way but do you know the details of the Ashes Origin Story? The first test match between the two countries was in 1877 when James Lillywhite led an England team on […]

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Cricket Tours & Tests

The first cricket book, which covered a tour was Fred Lillywhite's account of an England tour of Canada and the USA in 1859 and the genre continues to this day. Recommended are the early volumes by Lillywhite and Fitzgerald and the outstanding tour accounts in the 1950s ' cricket books by Jack Fingleton and Alan Ross. More modern cricket books on the Ashes by Mike Brearley and Gideon Haigh are also well worth reading along with a host of other titles.

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100 TESTS - A CENTURY OF TEST MATCH CRICKET AT THE SYDNEY CRICKET GROUNDPhilip DERRIMAN

£20.00 (Code: 99970)

THE 1899 AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLANDPeter SHARPHAM

£24.00 (Code: 100302)

500-1 - THE MIRACLE OF HEADINGLEY '81Rob STEEN & Alastair McLELLAN

£7.00 (Code: 84898)

ADELAIDE OVAL TEST CRICKET 1884-1984Bernard WHIMPRESS & Nigel HART

£16.00 (Code: 78327)

AN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE - THE STORY OF THE MYTHICAL ASHESDavid STUDHAM (ed.)

£20.00 (Code: 84568)

AGGERS' ASHES: THE INSIDE STORY OF ENGLAND'S 2011 ASHES TRIUMPHJonathan AGNEW

£4.00 (Code: 85227)

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ALEC STEWART'S ENGLAND DIARYAlec STEWART

£9.00 (Code: 81228)

AMBASSADORS OF GOODWILL - MCC TOURS 1946/47-1970/71Mark PEEL

£16.00 (Code: 80695)

AMERICAN BASEBALL PLAYERS CRICKET TOUR 1874Arthur HAYGARTH

£32.00 (Code: 94409)

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THE AMERICAN CRICKETERS IN THE WEST INDIES 1887-88 H.R. HOLMES

£95.00 (Code: 74409)

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AND THEN CAME LARWOOD: AN ACCOUNT OF THE TEST MATCHES 1932-33Arthur MAILEY

£58.00 (Code: 86543)

ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN CRICKET 1862-1926Percy Cross STANDING

£24.00 (Code: 25264)

ANOTHER BLOODY DAY IN PARADISE!Frank KEATING

£9.00 (Code: 92528)

ANOTHER BLOODY TOUR - ENGLAND IN THE WEST INDIES 1986Frances EDMONDS

£5.00 (Code: 74060)

ANTI-BODYLINEAlan Falconer KIPPAX & Eric P. BARBOUR

£95.00 (Code: 76568)

ARCHIE'S LAST STAND. M.C.C. IN NEW ZEALAND 1922-23David KYNASTON

£5.00 (Code: 27490)

THE ASHESJohn MILLER

£12.00 (Code: 62062)

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ASHES - AND DUSTDouglas Robert JARDINE

£145.00 (Code: 79972)

ASHES - AND DUSTDouglas Robert JARDINE

£140.00 (Code: 80649)

ASHES - AND DUSTDouglas Robert JARDINE

£18.00 (Code: 93821)

THE ASHES - HIGHLIGHTS SINCE 1948Peter BAXTER & Peter HAYTER

£6.00 (Code: 35663)

THE ASHES 1972John ARLOTT

£8.00 (Code: 84045)

ASHES 2005. THE GREATEST TEST SERIESGideon HAIGH

£6.00 (Code: 99222)

ASHES 2011: ENGLAND'S RECORD-BREAKING SERIES VICTORYGideon HAIGH

£6.00 (Code: 80448)

THE ASHES '79David FRITH

£6.00 (Code: 81971)

ASHES 97: TWO VIEWS FROM THE BOUNDARYNorman GERAS & Ian HOLLIDAY

£5.00 (Code: 80221)

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ASHES 97: TWO VIEWS FROM THE BOUNDARYNorman GERAS & Ian HOLLIDAY

£7.00 (Code: 80541)

THE ASHES ABLAZE: THE M.C.C. AUSTRALIAN TOUR 1954-1955Sidney BARNES

£16.00 (Code: 81036)

ASHES AND RUBBERF.H. HAIGH

£14.00 (Code: 44597)

THE ASHES AT STAKE: MEMORIES OF ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN CRICKETSamuel Canynge CAPLE

£8.00 (Code: 66636)

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