Cricket matches, especially Ashes series, do not usually engender goodwill between Australia and England. However, as Christmas approached in 1932, Australia made a remarkable gesture. A giant, Ashes themed cake was sent to London to be distributed to the city’s hospitals and children’s homes . It weighed
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Douglas Jardine is surely the greatest villain in cricket’s age old battle for The Ashes between Australia and England. Tensions were high after the first test in Sydney early in December, but with Christmas coming the cartoonist Alex Gurney had some fun; The tourists arrived in
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Miss Joan Stump of Blackheath has tickets to the third Ashes test at Headingly. She decided to use her hat to smuggle in an item of self protection, but her friend the yellow robin was horrified. ‘OMG, Joan, you will never get that blade past gate inspection.’
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