The Ashes: Collector's Edition | Issue 14

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JUDGEMENT DAY

I can’t think of anything in sport that compares to the Ashes. For the players it’s career-defining. So many have flown to Australia full of hope and associated expectation. Only to be chewed up, spat out, and never seen again. Such public, personal, and professional significance has inspired this, our second Collector’s Edition magazine.

England Urn-winners Graeme Swann, Ashley Giles, and Chris Broad all chip in. While we sit down with another of the ‘hope and expectation’ brigade, Josh Tongue.

The cover artwork sets the tone for this celebratory issue. Capturing the anticipation, in this instance, of a nick to the slip cordon – heading in the direction of players dressed in the uniforms worn over the 149 years of competition.

Whether you’re lucky enough to have tickets at the MCG, the right-and-relevant subscriptions, or maybe even a dodgy stick, we hope the following 130-or-so pages stir in you all the nostalgia and excitement worthy of the occasion.

“Gentlemen, let hostilities begin...”

JUDGEMENT DAY

I can’t think of anything in sport that compares to the Ashes. For the players it’s career-defining. So many have flown to Australia full of hope and associated expectation. Only to be chewed up, spat out, and never seen again. Such public, personal, and professional significance has inspired this, our second Collector’s Edition magazine.

England Urn-winners Graeme Swann, Ashley Giles, and Chris Broad all chip in. While we sit down with another of the ‘hope and expectation’ brigade, Josh Tongue.

The cover artwork sets the tone for this celebratory issue. Capturing the anticipation, in this instance, of a nick to the slip cordon – heading in the direction of players dressed in the uniforms worn over the 149 years of competition.

Whether you’re lucky enough to have tickets at the MCG, the right-and-relevant subscriptions, or maybe even a dodgy stick, we hope the following 130-or-so pages stir in you all the nostalgia and excitement worthy of the occasion.

“Gentlemen, let hostilities begin...”

-Your A-Z Guide To The Ashes
-Best ever Ashes team named
-How The Ashes became today’s amazing head-to-head
-The art of bowling down under, with Graeme Swann and Ashley Giles
-Interview: Josh Tongue “Chin Music”
-Win a pile of Ashes memorabilia
-Warne's Ball of the Century v Gatting, 1993
-Andrew Strauss's Superman catch to dismiss Adam Gilchrist, 2005
-Adam Gilchrist, fastest century in Ashes history, 57 balls, 2006
-Bodyline Tour, 1932/33
-Jim Laker, 19 wickets, Old Trafford, 1956
-Richie Benaud, captain, shrugs off an injured shoulder and bowls around the wicket to take 6-70 at Old Trafford in 1961 and retain Ashes
-John Snow starts a riot, Sydney, 1971
-Ian Botham, 149 not out, Headingley 1981
-Jimmy Anderson and Monty Panesar, last wicket stand, Cardiff, 2009
-David Gower in his Tiger Moth, 1990/91
-Free George Davis protestors dig up pitch, 1975
-Australia 301-0, with Mark Taylor and Geoff Marsh at crease at Trent Bridge, 1989