Gentlemen and Sledgers

Name: Gentlemen and Sledgers
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Rob Smyth(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 21. Mai 2015

288 Seiten

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Intro
Welcome Page
About Gentlemen and Sledgers
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
THE GOLDEN AGE: 1882-1929
Chapter 1: 'In affectionate remembrance of English cricket'
Chapter 2: 'We have come to beard the kangaroo in his den'
Chapter 3: 'When he dies his body ought to be embalmed and permanently exhibited in the British Museum'
Chapter 4: 'Give me the ball, Mr Stoddart, and I'll get t'boogers out before lunch!'
Chapter 5: 'Sorry, Doctor, she slipped'
Chapter 6: 'Put a rope around the bounder's neck and drag him out'
Chapter 7: 'We'll get 'em in singles'
Chapter 8: 'The human catapult who wrecks the roofs of distant towns when set in his assault'
Chapter 9: 'Have you got your coffin ready, Crockett?'
Chapter 10: 'The sound of his bat somehow puts me in mind of vintage port'
Chapter 11: 'If we go down, at least we'll take that bugger Barnes down with us'
Chapter 12: 'Please sir, you're the only decent bit of shade in the place'
Chapter 13: 'With that single over, Gregory destroyed the morale of English cricket'
Chapter 14: 'Never mind. I've got a little kid at home who will make up for it for me'
Chapter 15: 'Well I never, it's those two again!'
Chapter 16: 'Dammit, we've done 'em!'
THE AGE OF BRADMAN: 1930-1948
Chapter 17: 'That wasn't a bad bit of practice. I'll be able to have a go at them tomorrow'
Chapter 18: 'I've got it! He's yellow!'
Chapter 19: 'I don't want to see you, Mr Warner. There are two teams out there
one is trying to play cricket and the other is not'
Chapter 20: 'You can't go off while the little bastard's in'
Chapter 21: 'Don't give the bastard a drink. Let him die of thirst'
Chapter 22: 'Why, Mummy, he doesn't look like a murderer'
Chapter 23: 'I don't believe in the law of averages'
Chapter 24: 'Oh, don't give it another thought. You've just cost us the Ashes, that's all'
Chapter 25: 'Come and look at this. You've never seen anything like it'
Chapter 26: 'Frank, they'll get a thousand'
Chapter 27: 'A f****** fine way to start a series'
Chapter 28: 'Sorry, Godfrey, but I have to do it - the crowd are a bit bored at the moment'
Chapter 29: 'What's going on out here then? Let's get stuck into 'em'
Chapter 30: 'It's not easy to bat with tears in your eyes'
THE AGE OF ATTRITION: 1950-1968
Chapter 31: 'Fine lettuce! Nine-pence! With hearts as big as Freddie Brown's!'
Chapter 32: 'Bedser was really super fine/Fourteen wickets for ninety-nine'
Chapter 33: 'England deserved to win, if not from the first ball then at least from the second-last over'
Chapter 34: 'I swear there was a new light in his eyes, as if a spark had been kindled deep down inside him'
Chapter 35: 'Bet you 6/4 we can't'
Chapter 36: 'Well, at least he's chucking them straight, isn't he, mate?'
Chapter 37: 'Stick with me, Wal, we're going to win this game'
Chapter 38: 'Whenever Ken walked to the wicket I thought a Union Jack was trailing behind him'
Chapter 39: 'Declare, Simpson, you bastard!'
Chapter 40: 'Aye, but whoever beats it will be bloody tired'
Chapter 41: 'What's the matter, Lawry? Have you taken the pill?'
Chapter 42: 'England carried Underwood, like an umbrella, in case of rain'
THE AGE OF THE FAST MEN: 1970-1989
Chapter 43: 'I'm not afraid of leaving a trail of fractures among the opposition'
Chapter 44: 'Now that's a f****** bouncer'
Chapter 45: 'I've seen people hit by bottles and it makes a bloody mess of them'
Chapter 46: '"Australia take it lying down?" Pig's bloody arse they do!'
Chapter 47: 'Australia, you f****** beauty!'
Chapter 48: 'I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch'
Chapter 49: 'Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust, if Thomson don't get ya, Lillee must'
Chapter 50: 'I don't think we have met - my name's Cowdrey'
Chapter 51: 'The injury did confirm my earlier comment that I could play Thommo with my cock'
Chapter 52: 'Take a good look at this arse of mine, you'll see plenty of it this summer'
Chapter 53: 'When are your balls going to drop, sonny?'
Chapter 54: 'The only fellow I've met who fell in love with himself at a young age '
Chapter 55: 'He's got a degree in people, hasn't he?'
Chapter 56: 'We were going to sack him anyway'
Chapter 57: 'Come on, let's give it some humpty'
Chapter 58: 'He didn't want to bowl, you know'
Chapter 59: 'WAS BOTHAM'S INNINGS THE GREATEST EVER?'
Chapter 60: 'They just tore each other's clothes off'
Chapter 61: 'I went into the England dressing-room and lost it'
Chapter 62: 'It's hard work making batting look effortless'
Chapter 63: 'England have only three major problems. They can't bat, they can't bowl and they can't field'
Chapter 64: 'Hobbs, Hammond and Broad: it doesn't quite ring true, does it?'
AUSTRALIA ASCENDANT: 1989-2003
Chapter 65: 'In my day 58 beers between London and Sydney would have virtually classified you as a teetotaller'
Chapter 66: 'What do you think this is, a f****** tea party?'
Chapter 67: 'Who can forget Malcolm Devon?'
Chapter 68: 'Thatcher Out! lbw b Alderman'
Chapter 69: 'Count 'em yourself, you Pommie c***!'
Chapter 70: 'A fart competing with thunder'
Chapter 71: 'If it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past him'
Chapter 72: 'He offended me in a former life'
Chapter 73: 'McCague will go down in Test cricket history as the rat who joined the sinking ship'
Chapter 74: 'Man for man, on paper, the Australian side stand out like dogs' balls'
Chapter 75: 'Tufnell, can I borrow your brain? I'm building an idiot'
Chapter 76: 'Mark Taylor, the Australian captain? Ah, but for how long?'
Chapter 77: 'That Glenn McGrath, what a bastard'
Chapter 78: 'Oh, I get it. Nobody's talking to Steve. Okay! I'll talk to my f****** self'
Chapter 79: 'No, but I'd have Darren Gough as twelfth man'
Chapter 80: 'Adam Gilchrist: ????'
Chapter 81: 'Come on, Ramps, you know you want to'
Chapter 82: 'Mate, what the f*** are you doing here?'
Chapter 83: 'IS THERE ANYONE IN ENGLAND WHO CAN PLAY CRICKET?'
Chapter 84: 'This will sound arrogant, but I really fancied facing McGrath... I found him quite juicy'
2005 AND ALL THAT
Chapter 85: 'This really is a war out here, isn't it?'
Chapter 86: 'It's 1-1, you Aussie bastard'
Chapter 87: 'I knew I'd hit rock bottom when... I rolled over in bed... and all I saw was Freddie bloody Flintoff'
Chapter 88: 'All the palaver caused me to burn my toast'
Chapter 89: 'I'm fed up with blocking it, I'm just going to whack it instead'
Chapter 90: 'To be honest, Mark, I'm struggling'
Chapter 91: 'I reckon it will be 5-0 this time'
Chapter 92: 'You don't like being called the Shermanator, do you?'
Chapter 93: 'Not another one!'
Chapter 94: 'Stop the clocks! Hold the front pages! Shout it from the rooftops! Australia are in utter disarray'
Chapter 95: 'Why aren't you chirping now, mate? Not getting wickets?'
Chapter 96: 'He bowls to the left, he bowls to the right/That Mitchell Johnson, his bowling is shite'
Chapter 97: 'I hope the public get stuck into him. That was blatant cheating'
Chapter 98: 'Get ready for a broken f****** arm'
Chapter 99: 'It does look like they have scared eyes...'
Chapter 100: 'We've f****** got 'em back!'
Chapter 101: 'ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!'
Chapter 102: 'I don't think that they'll come close to us, to be honest.'
Chapter 103: 'My previous best-ever bowling was seven for 12 against Kimbolton School Under-15s.'
APPENDIX
THE ASHES 1882-2014: Series results and leading batsmen and bowlers
Batting and bowling records
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Section Openers
Reviews
About Rob Smyth
An Invitation from the Publishers
Copyright

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