• The 1961 Australian cricket tour of England began with a three-day match versus Worcestershire at the County Ground, New Road, Worcester on Saturday 29...
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    those ashes". The English media therefore dubbed the tour the quest to regain the Ashes. After England won two of the three Tests on the tour, a small...
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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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  • Ashes series was a series of Test cricket matches contested between England and Australia for the Ashes. It formed part of the 1989 Australian tour of...
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    tour of Australia at Brisbane, Nov 21–24 2013". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 9 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2013. "The Ashes:...
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    Australia some momentum into the long-awaited Ashes series in the British Isles. While Australia's last Ashes tour was in 2013, the emergence of England's Joe...
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    in the 2005 Ashes. He later served as both captain and vice-captain of the team. He retired from Test cricket at the end of the 2009 Ashes series and from...
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    the Test and the Ashes and despite only having an average of 27.6 runs, Cook scored one of only three English centuries on the tour and also on 28 December...
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    a 1994 ODI tour of Sri Lanka, in the 'John the bookmaker' controversy. Warne missed Australia's tour of Pakistan and the first four Ashes Tests. During...
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  • the ashes taken to Australia. As a result of this loss, the tour of 1882–83 was dubbed by England captain Ivo Bligh as "the quest to regain the ashes"....
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    Yusupov), The Pharaohs' Woman (1961), The Centurion (1961), The Trojan Horse (1961, playing Ulysses), Pontius Pilate (1961, playing both Judas and Jesus)...
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    stand in, for Pakistan's Summer tour as England embarked on their busy international schedule leading up to the Ashes and the World Cup. Given the Test...
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    in the late 1970s, Bowie had three number-one hits: the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes", its album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and "Under Pressure" (a...
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    husband together in a display urn. After Irving Noel Stoker's death in 1961, his ashes were added to those of his father's in that urn. Balcombe is remembered...
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    Ted Dexter (category Marylebone Cricket Club Australian Touring Team cricketers)
    season against South Africa, but in the First Test at Edgbaston in the 1961 Ashes series England started their second innings needing 321 runs to avoid...
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    who had directed the pioneering "Ashes to Ashes" video for David Bowie. Jobson and Craney left following the A tour and the band had a succession of temporary...
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    Eddy in Phoenix. He produced her first record, and she toured with him. They were married in 1961 in Las Vegas, settling in Los Angeles. She pursued a career...
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    Prince Tour (1979–1980) Dirty Mind Tour (1980–1981) Controversy Tour (1981–1982) 1999 Tour (1982–1983) Purple Rain Tour (1984–1985) Parade Tour (1986)...
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  • The first Kangaroo Tour was in 1908. Traditionally, Kangaroo Tours took place every four years and involved a three-Test Ashes series against Great...
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    Merv Hughes (category 1961 births)
    his warm-up stretches behind him en masse. In England, on his second Ashes tour in 1993, the crowd often chanted "Sumo" when he ran in to bowl. Hughes...
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    the Ashes tour for that winter. He was selected as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1932. He was selected for the first Test of the 1932–33 Ashes series...
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  • series, then later as the regular captain from the 1989–90 tour of the West Indies to the 1993 Ashes series, remaining as a player for two further years after...
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    of his captaincy career came with a 2–1 victory in the 2005 Ashes, England's first Ashes victory in 18 years (since 1986/87). However, a recurring knee...
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    Celine Dion (redirect from Mélanie Tour)
    France in July and August 2017. On 3 May 2018, she released the single "Ashes" from the film Deadpool 2. The remix version of the song topped the U.S...
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    from the sirens night and day/ from the fires of the homeless/ from the ashes of the gay/ Democracy is coming to the USA." He made the observation in...
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    wanted ashes scattered before death". skynews. Retrieved 11 October 2022. "Olivia Newton-John's FINAL wish: Actress said she wanted her ashes scattered...
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  • played cricket for Western Australia. Garth was chosen for the Ashes tour of England in 1961 aged only 20. He made his debut in the Second Test at Lord's...
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    1955 to 1961, but he missed two matches in the 1961 Ashes series due to illness and he then declined to tour India, Pakistan and Ceylon in 1961–62, as...
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    "Australia tour of England, 1899: The Ashes – 3rd Test". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 January 2013. "England tour of Australia, 1901/02: The Ashes – 2nd Test"...
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    middle of his head during the 2005 Ashes series being described as a "dead skunk" look. During the 2006–07 Ashes tour, the Australian team, noted for their...
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