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- ISBN 9781923135697
- Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Affirm Press
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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From Steve Waugh’s one-legged hundred to Stuart Broad picking a fight with a boundary robot, this celebration of the funniest, weirdest and most absurd moments from Ashes cricket is a new, richly amusing exploration of this timeless rivalry.
The Ashes is one of the oldest and most revered contests in the history of sport. But it is also a contest that contains profound nonsense.
The ridiculousness of cricket comes in many shapes and forms, and this book celebrates them all – the ridiculously good and the ridiculously terrible, as well as the plain old ridiculously ridiculous.
From Steve Waugh’s one-legged hundred to Stuart Broad picking a fight with a boundary robot, this celebration of the funniest, weirdest and most absurd moments from Ashes cricket is a new, richly amusing exploration of this timeless rivalry.
Alex Bowden is a cricket (and cycling) writer who has previously contributed serious, semi-serious and far-from-serious articles to The Wisden Cricketer, Wisden Cricket Monthly and Wisden.com, as well as Wisden’s quarterly publication, The Nightwatchman. Somehow or other, he has never actually written for Wisden itself. He has, however, also written for several non-Wisden-branded cricket publications, such as ESPNcricinfo, Cricket365 and the Mumbai Mirror, as well as his own website, King Cricket (kingcricket.co.uk), where he has spent the last twenty years wilfully evading all the big stories while covering the England team. Alongside this, he co-hosts the Ridiculous Ashes podcast with Dan Liebke – in large part because Dan has displayed a willingness to call him Alex, rather than King Cricket, which he assures you is a quite excruciating nom de plume to inadvertently land yourself with.
