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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.
England regained the Ashes in 1904 under the captaincy of Pelham Warner. R. E. Foster scored 287 on his debut and Wilfred Rhodes took 15 wickets in a match. [38] In 1905–06, England lost 4–1 against South Africa. England avenged the defeat in 1907, when they won the series 1–0 under the captaincy of Foster.
Australia comfortably won the Test series 4–1 and retained the Ashes, which were in their possession since 1989. The players of the series were Glenn McGrath from Australia and Mark Butcher from England. The England captain Michael Atherton finished his international career after the fifth and final test of the series.
STUMPS! England 68/3 (trail by 195) Thursday 6 July 2023 18:36, Harry Latham-Coyle. Another Ashes day ends with things about even, as has been the case so often in this series so far.
Joe Root 100no (145b 7x4 2x6), England 368-8 (76) - Root’s first Ashes century since 2015 OUT! Harry Brook b Lyon 32 (37b 4x4 0x6), England 175-4 (37.2) - Brook clean bowled in comical fashion
The fifth Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval saw England win by an innings and 579 runs, the largest victory by an innings in Test cricket history. The next largest victory was Australia's win against South Africa in the first Test of the 2001–02 tour at the Wanderers Stadium , where the tourists won by an innings and 360 runs.
Traditional Australia and new-school England locked in Ashes tussle. 19:05, ... rather silencing the critics who claim the third top wicket-taker in Test history is only effective when the ball is ...