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The Ashes is a men's Test cricket series played biennially between England and Australia.The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil.
On three occasions has a team won all the Tests in an Ashes series; only Australia has achieved the feat 5–0 in 1920–21, 2006–07 and 2013–14. [6] England's largest winning margin in an Ashes series was in 1978–79, when it won 5–1. England's largest unbeaten winning margin of 3–0 in an Ashes series was achieved in 1886, 1977 and 2013.
The Ashes urn is a small urn made of terracotta and standing 10.5 cm (4.1 inches) high, [1] long believed to contain the ashes of a cricket bail or the burnt remains of a lady's veil. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was presented to Ivo Bligh , the captain of the England cricket team , as a personal gift after a friendly match hosted at Rupertswood mansion in ...
Born on 28 November 1919 in the western Melbourne suburb of Sunshine, [8] Miller was the youngest of Leslie and Edith Miller's four children. [9] [10] [11] He was named after the Australian pioneer aviator brothers Keith and Ross Smith, [11] [12] who were half-way through their historic flight from England to Australia at the time Miller was born.
The 2021–22 Ashes series, named the Vodafone Men's Ashes Series for sponsorship reasons, [1] was a series of five Test cricket matches that were contested between England and Australia for The Ashes. The series was played at five venues across Australia from 8 December 2021 and was scheduled to finish on 18 January 2022.
The 1986–87 Ashes series was a series of five Test cricket matches that were contested between England and Australia for The Ashes. The series was played at five venues across Australia, starting on 14 November 1986 in Brisbane and concluding on 15 January 1987 in Sydney.
England won the series 2–1 with 2 matches drawn and therefore retained The Ashes. The series is most notable for off-spinner Jim Laker 's 46 wickets (a record for a 5-Test series) at an average of 9.60, [ 1 ] including all ten wickets in the second innings of the fourth Test at Old Trafford, the first time this had been achieved in Test cricket.
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