Fire and Ashes

How Yorkshire's finest took on the Australians

Introduction by Geoffrey Boycott

Includes interviews with Yorkshire and England cricketing legends, including: Michael Vaughan, Matthew Hoggard, and Darren Gough

This fully illustrated, hardback, book is a celebration of the 18 living Yorkshire players who, whilst playing for YCCC, have participated in an Ashes Test. Each Player talks about their favourite 'Ashes' memories including:

Geoffrey Boycott - 1977- Headingley - Hundredth hundred
Chris Old - 1981 - Headingley - Botham's Ashes
Phil Sharpe - 1964 - Trent Bridge
Ken Taylor - 1964 - Headingley
Michael Vaughan - 2005 - The Oval
Matthew Hoggard - 2005 - Trent Bridge
Darren Gough - 98-99 tour of Australia
John Hampshire - 1975 - Headingley
Arnie Sidebottom - 1985 - Trent Bridge
Chris Silverwood - 2002 - Perth
Richard Dawson - 2002 - Adelaide
Ray Illingworth - 1971 - Sydney
Bill Athey - 1986-87 tour of Australia
Brian Close - 1950-51 tour
Bob Appleyard - 1954-55 tour
Martyn Moxon - 1988 - Sydney

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“a unique and personal insight into the Ashes”
Cricket World

"Fire and Ashes a book chronicling the exploits of the 18 living Yorkshire cricketers to have represented the Three Lions in an Ashes series…Illingworth said: "A lot of people will have a bit of fun trying to remember the 18 living Yorkshire players, I know I did myself. Its a novelty book, but one that should create quite a bit of interest."
Yorkshire Post, Wednesday 5th August.
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"A fascinating cricket publication...The book is 128 pages of excellent and often new material."
Huddersfield Examiner, Wednesday 5th August.

"You could have guaranteed that a new book Geoff Boycott asked to be distributed around the press box might be complimentary about the great man himself. And so it proved. Fire and Ashes, how Yorkshire's finest took on the Australians tells the stories of the 18 living Yorkshiremen who have played in Ashes Tests. It includes, of course, cricket's marquee Yorkshire moment - Boycott's 100th hundred against the Aussies at Headingley in 1977."
Mail on Sunday, Sunday 2nd August.

"The stereotype that depicts Yorkshiremen as flintier than the Pennines may have to be reassessed following the publication of Fire and Ashes: How Yorkshire's finest took on the Australians. The brainchild of Geoff Boycott's wife, Rachel, it records colourful first-hand accounts from the 18 living Yorkies to have experienced Ashes cricket."
The Guardian, Monday 3rd August
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