The Ashes

A Front Row Seat to an Iconic Era of Cricket in the ‘60s

Mark Browning

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WILKINSON BOOKS
04 December 2025

Biography: sport; Sports & outdoor recreation

What if someone had dropped a hammer on the little ceramic creation and smashed The Ashes urn at Lord’s in the late 1960s? Could it have happened? It was certainly talked about.

This wonderful and rich contest that began in 1877 is bigger and better today than ever. But in the 1960s as hair grew longer, skirts shortened and pop music blossomed, it was totally ‘uncool’.

Yet this was entry-level Ashes cricket to passionate Test cricket fan and author Mark Browning.

Growing up in the Victorian regional city of Geelong in the 1960s, he embraced The Ashes and its players when it was at its lowest ebb and then rejoiced at its renaissance in 1972, cementing a relationship that endures with undimmed passion and admiration more than half a century later.

This is The Ashes: A Coming of Age Memoir.

By: Mark Browning
Imprint: WILKINSON BOOKS
Country of Publication: Australia
ISBN: 9781921804182
ISBN 10: 1921804181
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 04 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Mark Browning has been a cricket writer for forty years. He has had five books published and has written features for every Australian and English cricket periodical you care to think of, surviving and defunct. He lives in Geelong with his wonderful long-suffering wife, Chris, who fortunately for the relationship is also a fan of Ashes Test cricket.