'Stiff Upper Lips And Baggy Green Caps' is an Ashes history with a difference - it is as interested in the more colourful and controversial aspects of Anglo-Australian rivalry as it is in displays of cricketing prowess. Embedded in Simon Briggs’s vivid and entertaining narrative are profiles of confrontational cricketers from W.G. Grace to Glenn McGrath. Including more than 150 of the best Ashes insults, including dozens of the wittiest and most wounding examples of the dark art of ‘sledging’.
