Contents

Foreword by Sir Alec Bedser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Early Days: 1876‒77 to1882

The Birth (and Rebirth) of the Ashes: 1882‒83to 1912

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18

The Roaring Twenties: 1920–21to 1928–29

146

Bradman, Bodyline and Bradman Again: 1930to 1948 188

The Fifties and Sixties: 1950–51to 1968

265

The Colour and the Money: 1970–71to 1980

359

Botham and Beyond: 1981to 2002–03

426

The Greatest Series –and the Worst?2005to 2006–2007 553

Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

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