• The Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in The Ashes cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's...
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    The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The series have varied in length, consisting of between one and seven Test matches...
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    The 2019 Ashes series (officially the Specsavers Ashes Series for sponsorship reasons) was a series of Test cricket matches played between England and...
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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...
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    The Fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes series, held at The Oval in London, was the final Test in that cricket series between Australia and England. The match...
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  • The Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in the Ashes cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford...
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    The First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in The Ashes cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent...
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    The 1948 Ashes series was that year's edition of the long-standing cricket rivalry between England and Australia. Starting on 10 June 1948, England and...
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    The Fourth Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Headingley Cricket...
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    eighth-highest score in Test cricket. Australia's highest successful run chase in Test cricket came in the fourth Test of the 1948 Ashes series at Headingley....
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  • The Ashes series, similar to the cricket series of the same name, was a best-of-three series of test matches between Australia and Great Britain national...
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    Steve Smith (cricketer) (category Australia Test cricket captains)
    Australian leadership role, as Test vice-captain starting in the 2021–22 Ashes series. In December 2021, Smith returned to official Test captaincy duties when...
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    against Australia in the final Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval. The fifth and last Test of the 2016–17 series against the England saw India set...
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  • went on to easily win the third and deciding Test and retain The Ashes. Australia won both Test series against Great Britain and France, suffering one...
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  • concepts of Tests and Ashes. A total of 24 series have taken place, with 51 Test matches played (and one scheduled Test abandoned). The length of series has varied...
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  • second Test against the Lions at Central Park in Wigan. He was also sin-binned in the third Ashes Test at Headingley in Leeds. The three Ashes series...
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    Andrew Flintoff (category England Test cricket captains)
    and Test cricket. Following his debut in 1998, Flintoff became an integral player for England and was England's "Man of the Series" in the 2005 Ashes. He...
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    in their first innings against Australia in the first Test of the 1886–87 Ashes series. A Test match is won when one side has scored more runs than the...
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  • team, and included a test match against Papua New Guinea, a three-test series against Australia for The Ashes, and a two-test series against New Zealand...
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    Ricky Ponting (category Australia Test cricket captains)
    entered the 2010–11 Ashes series hoping to regain The Ashes from England on home soil as they had four years previously. The First Test in Brisbane was drawn...
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    Joe Root (category England Test cricket captains)
    first Test he made a century on the first day of the Ashes series. He scored 134 off 166 balls, helping England to a total of 430. In the second innings...
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    team, which toured England in 1948. Bradman's men went undefeated in their 34 matches; this unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned them...
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  • played 1,080 Test matches, winning 398 and losing 327 (with 355 draws). In the Test series against Australia, England play for The Ashes, one of the most...
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  • 1981 included the 51st Ashes series of Test matches between Australia and England. Despite having been 1–0 down after two Tests, England won the next three...
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    James Anderson (cricketer) (category England Test cricketers)
    Ashes. However, he encountered a relatively lean series, his only highlight being 4/33 in the second test at Adelaide as Australia won the five-Test series...
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    Allan Border (category Australia Test cricket captains)
    both Tests and ODIs. His Australian record for Test Match runs stood for 15 years before Ricky Ponting overtook him during the Third Ashes Test against...
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    cricket team, which toured England in 1948 and was undefeated in their 34 matches. This unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned Bradman's...
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  • behind to win every test, and won each match by a margin of no more than one converted try making it arguably the closest Ashes series since 1974. The Australian...
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    Alastair Cook (category Cricketers who made a century on Test debut)
    first Test matches against India, Pakistan, the West Indies and Bangladesh. Cook played a pivotal role in England winning the 2009 Ashes series, and,...
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    Pat Cummins (category Australia Test cricketers)
    2015 Ashes squad after the retirement of Ryan Harris, but was not selected for a test during the series. He was part of the ODI and T20I series in the...
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