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Roland Perry
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Pages: 359 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0552149462
Pub: Corgi Books
Pub date: 2003-04-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2315405
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Great, the Don's selection for his greatest Ashes team. Except that's where his involvement ends. Roland Perry's pocket profiles of the 24 players the Don selects are the problem: he begins with describing the player's greatest Ashes innings and THEN explains their background, and profesional career which makes the book seem slightly disjointed. His profiles are quite dull, a collection of highest innings and series by series averages descends into a list of meaningless stats once you have read more than a few pages, and if you try reading the book cover to cover the sheer volume of numbers will probably give you a migraine. As the book was first published in 2000 players such as S. Waugh, Ponting or Warne do not make the cut and while that would not normally be a failing, the profiles of the players which are included are far to short, plus there are at least 100 pages of large type title pages within the book so you get a lot less writing than you think when you buy it. If you are really interested in the players featured then get a decent indivdiual biography; Fred Trueman's book adequately covers his own life plus some details of Hutton, Bedsar et al which are missing from this.
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