And you can read all about it in A Striking Summer: How Cricket United a Divided Nation. The series went on from mid-June to mid-August and a country in turmoil was gripped.

Indeed. MJ has said what too many other commentators, writers and pundits have left unsaid @AnnieChave It is also worth pointing out, despite the carnage he inflicted on our lot, that he’s a really top bloke.

Different world of course but the feeling is that he’s more Paisley than Shankly.

Yes, it seems to me a huge concern @anniechave that this may turn to be a one-off payment and that annual fee payment will virtually stop.

The Bishop and The Bear Ep 88 by The Guerilla Cricket Podcast This week we speak to Stephen Brenkley former cricket corespondent at the Indepedent and the author of A Striking Summer

The #BishopandBear goes back in time to 1926 when a pint cost 6 old pence. @stephenbrenkley.bsky.social
author of A Striking Summer (How cricket united a divided nation) is our guest and brings that remarkable period to life. Listen here
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Disappointing effort by England to lose the Ashes in Sydney. Often poor bowling, inept fielding, soft cricket. Oz superb. If this was the men there’d be calls to bring ‘em home.

A striking summer: when the 1926 Ashes series united a divided nation. A flavour from The Guardian

I am moving here from twitter which is a bit alarming lately. It’ll be the same stuff about cricket issues that matter to me, sometimes at random, occasional other stuff - oh, sorry, and my new book A Striking Summer from Fairfield Books about how the 1926 Ashes series helped save the nation

It was lovely to speak to the Scottish Cricket Society in Glasgow and Edinburgh about my book A Striking Summer which tells how the 1926 Ashes series united a divided country on the verge of revolution. Oz played 4 matches in Scotland that year. And they were all bowling 23 overs an hour. Imagine!