Ashes Regained: The Coach's Story

by Duncan Fletcher

A captivating look at a bygone era through the lens of a single, surprisingly momentous American year one century ago. 1908 was the year Henry Ford launched the Model T, the Wright Brothers proved to the world that they had mastered the art of flight, Teddy Roosevelt decided to send American naval warships around the globe, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series (a feat they have never yet repeated), and six automobiles set out on an incredible 20,000 mile race from New York City to Paris via the frozen Bering Strait. A charming and knowledgeable guide, Rasenberger takes readers back to a time of almost limitless optimism, even in the face of enormous inequality, an era when the majority of Americans believed that the future was bound to be better than the past, that the world's worst problems would eventually be solved, and that nothing at all was impossible. As Thomas Edison succinctly said that year, "Anything, everything is possible."

320 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2005

About the author

Duncan Andrew Gwynne Fletcher OBE is a Zimbabwean cricket coach and former cricketer, who has coached the England and Indian national teams. He led the Indian team to be the winners of the 2013 International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy.

He was England coach between 1999 and 2007, and is credited with the resurgence of the England team in Test cricket in the early 2000s.

As a cricketer, he captained the Zimbabwean test team following independence, winning the 1982 ICC Trophy and leading Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

With thanks to Wikipedia.

Reviews

[chucklesthescot · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a book that I had been really looking forward to reading, getting the coach view of the England team and cricket in general. I found to be a bill dull and over descriptive on things that didn't seem that interesting to me. I also found that the things I wanted to read about weren't really told in a manner designed to entertain the reader. It fell pretty flat for me which was a great pity.

[Dennis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great insight from the English coach into this famous Ashes series!! Cricket fans will love it.