Collect Gentlemen And Sledgers Generated By Rob Smyth Issued As Textbook

for the fans. The only Cricket that I follow, these days, is the Ashes and such a long and fascinating history, It will do well for the Aussie players today to look back, build character again, Better to lose than to cheat, Gentlemen and Sledgers Interesting and Funny

With the summer up on us and a touring Australian Cricket Team about to appear and defend the Ashes which they so easily won, Rob Smyth has brought out Gentleman and Sledgers a history of the Ashes in quotations and confrontations.
This is an informative and funny book which not only any cricket fan will enjoy but those with an interest in sports and sports history in general.


From the Obituary to English Cricket placed in the Sporting Times in Septemberuntil England won the Ashes inthen lost them again in, there is history and quotation, snippets to laugh at historic games to remember.
How the England Captain on the tour ofwas presented with the little Urn with ashes of who knows what inside as a response to the infamous obit, and how upon his death init was presented to Lords.


I like the way the book is split up in to various eras so you are able to dip in and out of the book often quoting.
All the cricket greats are in here from the colossus that was W, G. Grace, Bradman through to Merv Hughes and Flintoff and who can forget Glenn McGrath giving it the I reckon it will bethis time, how did that one work out for you fella

Like every cricket fan we all have our favourite sledges from Ashes tours and various quotes from players one of mine is there Ian Chappell to David Boon In my daybeers between London and Sydney would have virtually classified you as a teetotaller.


Some of the best sledges

are usually about a player and some you could not disagree with especially if it is about Geoffrey Boycott, a man who could bore a glass eye to tears when out at the crease.
Something Aussie politician Jack Birney saying You have done or Australian cricket what the Boston Strangler did for doortodoor salesman this was after Boycott had been out in the middle forminutes without hitting a boundary!

This is a wonderful book that is an excellent reminder of crickets past, some great slices of history backed up with some fantastic pictures.
This is 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.
Buy it, Love it!
This book covers the major moments and matches in Ashes history, charting the ebb and flow of AngloAustralian cricketing fortunes.
Told throughmemorable Ashes confrontations, from Grace vs, Spofforth, to Larwood vs. Bradman, Warne vs. Gatting, and Botham vs. Lillee, right up to Mitchell Johnson's spectacular redemption in, .