The Ashes 2009: Good EnoughIn 2005, it was England's summer. In 2006–07, Australia had its revenge. 2009 loomed as the tightest of contests in Test cricket's longest-running rivalry, both countries in a race to rebuild in the first rematch since the end of the era of Warne, McGrath, Gilchrist and Hayden. Test cricket faced its own challenge: to demonstrate the game's potential for drama and dash over five days in an era increasingly accustomed to cricket in twenty-over instalments. Compiled day-by-day, The Ashes 2009 captures the season's whipsawing fortunes and the story of its defining duels: Ponting v Strauss, Clarke v Flintoff, Broad and Anderson v Hilfenhaus and Siddle, ready for readers while the embers of the Ashes are still warm. |
Contents
Business as Usual | 10 |
Come Again? | 25 |
BCAD | 41 |
Day 2 | 56 |
Day 5 | 71 |
vi | 75 |
Day 1 | 89 |
Day 4 | 102 |
Best of Five | 156 |
Too Many to Mention | 162 |
The Disciplinarian | 171 |
Kiss Ass | 179 |
The Past Is Not Another Country | 185 |
Fifth Test | 191 |
A House Divided | 198 |
Day 1 | 205 |
We Need to Talk About Kevin | 117 |
Unnatural Selection | 131 |
Day 4 | 144 |
Marathon Men | 214 |
Pitched Battle | 222 |
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