An original first edition of The Ashes Thrown Away, E. M. Wellings’ detailed and critical account of the M.C.C. (Marylebone Cricket Club) tour of Australia in 1958–59. This tour, captained by Peter May, is remembered as one of England’s most disappointing Ashes campaigns, culminating in a decisive 4–0 defeat.
Wellings, a forthright cricket journalist and former player, provides an incisive critique of team selection, tactics, and morale, offering a rare contemporary perspective on England’s post-war cricket struggles.
This edition features green cloth boards with gilt lettering and stump motif to the spine, and an attractively illustrated dustcover showing a batsman bowled out within a red cricket ball vignette against a green field background.
One of Wellings’ most sought-after cricket titles.
