A draw in the final Test gave England victory in an Ashes series for the first time in 18 years and their first Ashes victory at home since 1985.

South Africa won the five Test series against England 1-0 despite Cronje struggling, scoring 113 runs at 18. 83.

Although English bowlers did aim at the batsmen's body in the opening tour matches, they did not follow through by packing the leg-side field until Bill Woodfull led an Australian XI against the tourists in Melbourne on 18 – 22 November, in what was effectively a Test rehearsal.

Six further wickets in the drawn Third Test saw Benaud end the series with 84 runs at 28 and 18 wickets at 21. 11.

Smiling Buddha, formally designated as Pokhran-I, was the codename given to the Republic of India's first nuclear test explosion that took place at the long-constructed Indian Army base, Pokhran Test Range at Pokhran municipality, Rajasthan state on 18 May 1974 at 8: 05 a. m. ( IST ).

Although Yerkes claimed that the tests measured native intelligence, and not education or training, this claim is difficult to sustain in the face of the questions themselves: Question 18 of Alpha Test 8 reads: " Velvet Joe appears in advertisements of ... ( tooth powder )( dry goods )( tobacco )( soap ).

Following scores of 18 and 1, the selectors dropped Bradman to twelfth man for the Second Test.

On 18 January 1939, the club's committee, on the casting vote of the chairman, chose former Test batsman Vernon Ransford over Bradman.

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* Pokhran-I ( Smiling Buddha ): On 18 May 1974 India detonated an 8 Kiloton nuclear device at Pokhran Test Range becoming the first nation to become nuclear capable outside the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council as well as dragging Pakistan along with it into a nuclear arms race with the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto swearing to reciprocate India .< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

Following his 173 * in the last Test against Pakistan, Gower suffered another drop in form, managing only three fifties in the next 18 Test innings against the West Indies, Sri Lanka and India.

A Test tour of Pakistan in late 1988 was unproductive, with 92 runs at 18. 40 with one half century and two wickets at 108. 00.

He lost his first match in charge but England managed to beat Australia in a morale-boosting final Test ; England had not beaten Australia in the previous 18 Test matches.

Snow took 18 wickets ( 22. 83 ) including 4 / 91 in the Durban " Test ", they beat Natal and Eastern Province and drew the other games.

* 16 October – 18 October, Delhi – Pakistan plays its first Test match, against India.

In 1995, he took 62 Test wickets at an average of 21. 75 runs per wicket, a performance which he bettered in 2000 when he took 66 Test wickets at an average of 18. 69, including 34 wickets in the Test series against England at an average of 12. 82 runs per wicket.

He played 46 Test matches between 1948 and 1959, taking 193 wickets with a bowling average of 21. 24 ; in all first-class matches he took 1, 944 wickets at 18. 41.

He had reached double figures in 18 of his 22 Test innings, although his highest score was still only 66.

In 1954, Australia toured South Africa for the second time and although they lost the series they were given a standing ovation after defeating South Africa 18 – 14 in a thrilling 2nd Test at Newlands.

Gillespie has occasionally proved his worth with the bat, with a highest Test score of 201 not out and an average of 18. 73.

On February 18, 1943, three Dynamo Kyiv football players ( Trusevich, Klimenko, and Putistin ) who took part in the Match of Death with the German Luftwaffe team were also murdered in the camp.

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O ' Gara's last minute conversion against Gloucester on 18 January 2003 helped Munster to a 27-point victory which took them through to the Heineken Cup quarter final ; this match has become etched into Munster Rugby's folklore as the Miracle Match.

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He said on 18 July 2008 on Five Live's Test Match Special programme that he believed he would not play for England again after being left out of the Test squads against both New Zealand and South Africa.

* 15 – 18 September: HSBC World Match Play Championship-Reigning U. S. Open champion Michael Campbell beat Paul McGinley to claim the richest prize in golf.

He reached the final of the News of the World Match Play twice while in his fifties, in 1967 and again in 1969, on each occasion beating several players almost half his age over 18 holes.

Aries wouldn't stay down long as he defeated Sky on March 18 in Match 4, giving him a concussion with a series of blows to the head.

In 18 matches for the university he took over 100 wickets, and played in the Varsity Match in 1866, 1867, 1868 and 1869.

His first game as captain was on 18 July 2008, in a 2 – 1 win over BSC Young Boys at the Stade de Suisse, Wankdorf, in which he was named Man of the Match.

An agreement between the leaders of four parties which contested indecisive elections on Oct. 15 was reached after almost 18 hours of political bargaining under the threat of an army coup d'etat.

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Cricket being a summer sport, and the venues being in opposite hemispheres, the break between series alternates between 18 and 30 months.

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However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

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