Cricket's burning passion
Subtitle: Ivo Bligh and the story of the Ashes
By: Scyld Berry and Rupert Peploe
Contributors: Peploe, Rupert
Publisher: Methuen
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780413776631
Subjects: Test matches (Cricket); History; Cricket captains; Biography
Description: "After England's cricketers famously lost to Australia at the Oval in August 1882 a mock obituary notice was published in the "Sporting Times", announcing that 'the body [of English cricket] would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia'. It was this announcement that brought 'the Ashes' into existence"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Originally published: 2006.

Includes index.