Download or read book Bradman s Best Ashes Teams written by Roland Perry and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's greatest cricketer selects his all-time best Ashes teams...from the two great rivals Australia and England...from all eras...since Test cricket began... Sir Donald Bradman saw all but a few of the 20th Century's greatest cricketers play the game. Apart from being cricket's most successful player and captain, Bradman built a reputation over five decades as the game's most knowledgeable and incisive selector. These factors, combined with his status as one of the legends of world cricket and his unparalleled understanding of cricketing history, put Bradman in a unique position to make the most informed judgment on the composition of the all-time best teams from the two great cricketing rival nations - Australia and England - who began the fight for the Ashes in 1877. In BRADMAN'S BEST ASHES TEAMS, Sir Donald Bradman reveals his Dream Teams from both Ashes nations, selected from all Australian and England Test teams since the first Test was played 125 years ago. In exclusive interviews and correspondence with his biographer, Roland Perry, Bradman shares his thoughts on the world's best cricketers, his greatest ever Ashes teams, and why he chose their illustrious members. A very special addition to this book is the inclusion of Bradman's selection of the Top Five batting and bowling performances he witnessed, plus his own assessment of his five best innings in Ashes Tests. As well as Bradman's compelling revelations and thoughts on cricket's most celebrated exponents and the way the game has developed over the decades, this long-awaited book also contains engrossing portraits of his selections, who forever will be known as ... Bradman's Best Ashes Teams.
Download or read book Bradman s Best Ashes Team written by Roland Perry and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Donald Bradman saw all but a few of the 20th century's finest cricketers play their game. In addition to being cricket's most successful player and captain, Bradman built a reputation over five decades as the game's most knowledgeable and incisive selector. After the furore which heralded the publication of Bradman's Best, which listed the Don's all-time best cricket team, the fires are sure to be stoked once more when he reveals the line-ups of his greatest all-time Ashes teams.
Download or read book Bradman s Best written by Roland Perry and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Donald Bradman saw all but a few of the 20th century's greatest cricketers play the game. Apart from being cricket's most successful player and captain, Bradman built a reputation over five decades as the game's most knowledgable and incisive selector. He was second to none in judging a cricketer's capacities and talents, and had a deep comprehension of the game. These factors put Bradman in a unique position to make the most informed judgment on the composition of the world's all-time best cricket team. BRADMAN'S BEST reveals Sir Donald Bradman's all-time best team from all cricket-playing nations since the first Test was played in 1877. In exclusive interviews and correspondence with his biographer, Roland Perry, over six years, Bradman shared his thoughts on the world's best cricketers, his greatest ever team and why he chose its illustrious members. The Don's one proviso was that his selection only be made public after his death to spare him the inevitable publicity and controversy that such a book would stir-up, and allow him to enjoy a period of rest and privacy in his last years. As well as Bradman's compelling revelations and thoughts on cricket's most celebrated exponents and the way the game has developed over the decades, this long-awaited book also contains engrossing portraits of his selections, who forever will be known as BRADMAN'S BEST.
Download or read book The Ashes written by Roland Perry and published by Random House (Australia). This book was released on 2006 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 130 years, the Ashes, the world's longest running international sporting competition is still going strong. Hotly contested between Australia and England, it captivates public interest in the UK and Australia and exemplifies the fierce but friendly rivalry between the two cricket-loving nations. Bestselling author and cricket enthusiast, Roland Perry, charts the history and highlights of this great sporting competition; from the first English tours of Australia when the colonials aspired to beat Mother England at her own game, to the historic Ashes tour of 2005 when Britain reclaimed the Ashes in a surprise upset after years of Australian dominance on the pitch. THE ASHES: A CELEBRATION recounts the memorable tours, players and amazing individual performances that created the legend of the Ashes. Such as the inaugural match in March 1877 when an Australian team beat England at the MCG in the first ever international cricket match. A terrific win for the colony, it only raised eyebrows in England; seeing was believing after all. When Australia beat England again by seven runs on home turf in a thriller at the Oval in 1882, the Ashes competition was born.
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Download or read book Bradman s Best written by Roland Perry and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest cricket team of all time - as selected by its greatest batsman, Sir Donald Bradman. Sir Donald Bradman saw all but a few of the 20th century's greatest cricketers play the game. Apart from being cricket's most successful player and captain, Bradman built a reputation over five decades as the game's most knowledgable and incisive selector. These factors, combined with his status as one of the legends of world cricket and his unparalleled understanding of cricketing history, put Bradman in a unique position to make the most informed judgment on the composition of the world's all-time best cricket team. In BRADMAN'S BEST, Sir Donald Bradman reveals his Dream Team, selected from all cricket-playing nations since the first Test was played in 1877. In exclusive interviews and correspondence with his biographer, Roland Perry, Bradman shares his thoughts on the world's best cricketers, his greatest ever team and why he chose its illustrious members. As well as Bradman's compelling revelations and thoughts on cricket's most celebrated exponents and the way the game has developed over the decades, this long-awaited book also contains engrossing portraits of his selections, who forever will be known as ... BRADMAN'S BEST.
Download or read book Bradman Vs Bodyline written by Roland Perry and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive story of the most controversial chapter in the history of Australian and English cricket, the notorious Bodyline series, by Roland Perry, author of Sir Donald Bradman's authorised biography, The Don.
Download or read book Bradman s Band written by Ashley Alexander Mallett and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Bradman is the Eternal Flame of cricket. As the greatest batsman of them all, Bradman consumed bowlers like a firestorm. Such a fabled and long career cast an immense shadow over Bradman's peers and opponents alike. Their stories are gathered here to make up Bradman's Band, the cricket legends who played alongside or against him in the Test arena. Among them are Larwood, Miller, Compton, Hutton, Headley, Allen, O'Reilly, Mailey, and Kippax.Author Ashley Mallett skilfully rekindles the Bodyline Ashes conflict, and the great religious divide Down Under of the 1930s. His description of the vendettas and jealousies among Bradman's peers are fascinating reflections on the players and the game. Bringing us closer to home is a profile of what The Don describes as his "greatest partnership", his sixty-five-year marriage to Jessie Bradman.The is a fascinating story of the cricket legends in Bradman's Band.
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Download or read book Bradman s Invincibles written by Roland Perry and published by Hachette Book Group USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, Australia celebrated two important anniversaries 60 years since the triumphant Invincibles Ashes tour of England, and 100 years since the birth of Sir Donald Bradman. At last, here is the definitive account of that amazing tour. It is very much an inside account : Roland Perry conducted long, in-depth interviews with Sir Donald while writing his biography some years ago and now writes of them for the first time. In addition, Roland Perry has interviewed many of the surviving team members. Much more than an account of a series of cricket matches, this is also a portrait of a collection of great characters all different, but all making a unique contribution. This incredible combination of sportsmen won 34 matches in a row over one gruelling summer. They were truly great and they were captained by the best cricketer the world has ever seen. BRADMAN'S INVINCIBLES is the story of what they did, and how they did it.
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Download or read book The Ashes It s All About the Urn written by Graeme Swann and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for Cricket Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards Graeme Swann leads us on a compelling adventure through one of world sport's most engrossing rivalries. He knows as much as anybody about the heat of England v Australia battles, having played in three series wins and also the whitewash defeat of 2013-14 when its intensity ended his international career. However, it brought out some of his best displays in Test cricket. But he is just one of dozens of colourful characters to have added their chapters to this great tome. The mock obituary of English cricket in the Sporting Times of 1882 was the forerunner of summers and winters of heaven and hell, depending on which side of the divide you were situated. When it comes to on-field relations nothing quite compares to the over-my-dead-body feel of the Ashes. From Grace to Sir Don, the most graceful of them all. From the foulest play to the fairest - contrast the 1932-33 Bodyline series affair to the image of Andrew Flintoff hunched over a distraught Brett Lee in 2005. From Ray Illingworth's famous walk-off in the Seventies, when an England team-mate was assaulted by a spectator, to Steve Waugh's hugely emotional lap of honour when he retired a quarter of a century later. Swann's book will reveal the magic of a series that first gripped him in his front room in Northampton as an aspiring spin bowler in the mid-1980s.
Download or read book Bradman the Summer that Changed Cricket written by Christopher Hilton and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Donald Bradman is widely considered to be the greatest batsman who has ever lived. In 1930 he arrived in England, a callow youth whose lack of technique, or so the English thought, would be mercilessly exposed. By summer's end he had redefined the possibilities of the game and changed it forever. This fascinating book reconstructs that Australian tour from the first day to the last, in the most lively detail, including every run in Bradman’s legendary 300 scored in one day during the Leeds Test. This is a must for every cricket lover. Using a host of contemporary sources †“ from regional Australian newspapers and original score sheets, to English provincial and national newspapers and players' memories †“ Christopher Hilton brings all aspects of the 1930 summer tour vividly to life. He revisits every controversy surrounding one of the sport's most momentous occasions in a way that will bring great enjoyment and a sense of history to readers young and old. Christopher Hilton worked for national newspapers, notably the Daily Express, for 25 years. He has since written more than sixty books on a variety of sports as well as history and politics. This is his third cricket book. Married with a daughter, he lives in Hertfordshire.
Download or read book The Men Who Raised the Bar written by Chris Waters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few sporting records capture the imagination quite like that of the highest individual score in Test cricket. It is the blue riband record of batting achievement, the ultimate statement of stamina and skill. From Charles Bannerman, who scored 165 for Australia against England in the inaugural Test match in 1877, to Brian Lara, who made 400 not out for West Indies against England in 2004, the record has changed hands ten times. Chris Waters' The Men Who Raised the Bar charts the growth of the record through nearly one hundred and fifty years of Test cricket. It is a journey that takes in a legendary line of famous names including Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Leonard Hutton, Sir Garfield Sobers and Walter Hammond, along with less heralded players whose stories are brought back into the light. Drawing on the reflections of the record-holders, Waters profiles the men who raised the bar and their historic performances.
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Download or read book The Quicks written by Robert Drane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimidation. Cunning. Contempt. The greatest pace bowlers have a vast arsenal at their disposal. Australian quicks have perfected the art of re-arranging batsmen's ribcages and life-priorities. Death stares and old-fashion lip are used in combination with explosive pace, tactical guile and the ability to make a cricket ball do unprecedentedly vicious things. The Quicks profiles the most successful, frighteningly-fast and charismatic Australian bowlers to ever terrorise the Poms… and every other cricketing nation. Author Robert Drane tells the stories of the men who have captivated the Australian sporting public, from Lillee and Thomson, to McGrath, Johnson and the modern menace of Starc, Cummins and Hazlewood.
