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...

The Australian cricket team toured England in the 1953 season to play a five-match Test series against England for The Ashes. England won the final Test...

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...

The Ashes urn is a small urn made of terracotta and standing 10.5 cm (4.1 inches) high, long believed to contain the ashes of a cricket bail or the burnt...

short tour of New Zealand followed the Ashes series; rain heavily affected the only Test match, but in the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)'s tour match...

Australia in the 1954–55 Ashes series and as the MCC in other matches on the tour. It was the first time that an England team had toured Australia under a professional...

including the Ashes series of three Test matches against Great Britain and three Test matches against the French. It followed the tour of 1948-49 and...

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...

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...

fortunes changed on the 1953 Ashes tour as they won the series 1–0. England did not lose a series between their 1950–51 and 1958–59 tours of Australia and secured...

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...

53 and 47 to ensure his selection for the 1953 Ashes tour, making him the youngest Australian player to tour England. Craig's arrival precipitated media...

Geoffrey Oryema (16 April 1953 – 22 June 2018) was a Ugandan musician. In 1977 after the murder of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet...

consecutive Ashes series, with 21 wickets in 4 matches. Under his captaincy, Australia defeated England 4–0. Under the captaincy of Cummins, Australia toured Pakistan...

The first Kangaroo Tour was in 1908. Traditionally, Kangaroo Tours took place every four years and involved a three-Test Ashes series against Great...

Test". Australia also went on a tour of New Zealand in 1919. The 1920 Great Britain Lions tour saw Australia win the Ashes for the first time on home soil...

one, a 2001 and 2002–03 Ashes domination winning both series 4–1, the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa, the 2004 tour of India, in which Australia...

career in 1955, he won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and the circuit now known as PGA Tour Champions. Nicknamed "The King", Palmer was one of golf's...

David Alan Gest (May 11, 1953 – April 12, 2016) was an American producer and television personality. Gest founded the American Cinema Awards Foundation...

band in 1988 and pursued a solo career. His 1990 solo album, Up from the Ashes, spawned two singles and achieved modest success. He released his second...

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...

until his death from cancer the following year at age 72. She spread his ashes at Joshua Tree National Park, John's favorite place. He has a star on the...

2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers...

tracks. I couldn't believe it. We were there to contest the Ashes, and there was our tour manager talking about horse racing and whether the jockey Scobie...

score another ton against Queensland. Ponting was selected for the 1997 Ashes tour of England, but did not play in any of the three preceding ODIs. He was...

playing as England in the 1950–51 Ashes series against the Australians and as the MCC in their other matches on the tour. They were regarded as a weak team...

Thomas William Cochrane OC OM (/ˈkɒkrən/ KOK-rən; born May 14, 1953) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician best known as the frontman for the rock...

regain the Ashes, their first series victory in England since 1975. His cause was not helped by the announcement of the Mike Gatting's rebel tour of South...

does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour. "Life on Mars?" "Ashes to Ashes" "Breaking Glass" "Cactus" (Pixies song) "China Girl" (Iggy...

played on Boxing Day in Melbourne between 1953 and 1967. Because there were six Tests in the 1974–75 Ashes series, in order to fit them all in to the...