The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

On 17 November 2007 Australia beat Nigeria 1 – 0 in an international friendly at Craven Cottage.

In this match, Australia beat England by 45 runs.

* July 16-July 21 – England become the first team this century to win a test match after following on when they beat Australia by 18 runs at Headingley cricket ground, Leeds, England.

* March 23 – The 2003 Cricket World Cup ends as Australia beat India by 125 runs in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Quality Desserts record beat a previous record attempt by Ipswich City Council in 2009, which was made during a visit to Australia by Lord Lamington's Great Grandson and Niece.

He made 13 as Australia beat India by one run, but scored his first ODI duck in the next match as England won by eight wickets.

Taylor scored 56 in the final as Australia beat Pakistan by 64 runs to end the tournament with 193 runs at 32. 16.

After the Second Test was a rained-out draw, the West Indies beat Australia inside three days on a " green " Trinidad pitch in the Third Test.

Despite winning the first 2 games against Croatia ( 1 – 0 ) and Australia ( 2 – 0 ), the " Magic Square " didn't seem to work as expected and struggled to beat the opponents ' defense.

In 1975, he went to Australia and lost by a knockout in five to Rocky Mattioli, and then he came back to the States, where he beat Marc Gervais by a knockout in ten.

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.

West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs.

The World Cup was won by Australia, who beat Pakistan by 8 wickets at Lord's Cricket Ground in London.

In 1973, professionals were permitted to play in the Davis Cup for the first time, and Laver was on a winning team for the fifth time, claiming two singles and a doubles rubber in the final as Australia beat the United States 5 – 0.

* Cricket World Cup Final: Australia beat Pakistan by eight wickets

* Women's Cricket World Cup – Australia beat New Zealand by five wickets

* Cricket World Cup – Final: Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets

* 1987 Cricket World Cup-Final: Australia beat England by 7 runs

In the 1998 edition, played in Australia, six teams took part, dominated by giants Australia and New Zealand: in the final match, played in Brisbane, New Zealand beat the host Australia 1-0 with a goal by Mark Burton.

In the final mass sprint the Australia FDJeux rider Baden Cooke won, another debutant winner he just beat local rider Jean-Patrick Nazon.

The U. S. team beat Sri Lanka and Australia to bring home the gold.

In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia, arraignment is the first of eleven stages in a criminal trial, and involves the clerk of the court reading out the indictment.

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia since 1882.

It is one of the most celebrated rivalries in international cricket and is currently played biennially, alternately in England and Australia.

England is the current holder after winning the Ashes in 2009 and again in the 2010 / 11 series in Australia.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

Australia made a mere 63 runs in its first innings, and England, led by A. N. Hornby, took a 38-run lead with a total of 101.

As it took many years for the name " The Ashes " to be given to the ongoing series between England and Australia, there was no concept of there being a representation of the ashes being presented to the winners.

It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.

Later in 1882, following the famous Australian victory at The Oval, Bligh led an England team to Australia, as he said, to " recover those ashes ".

Australia won the First Test by nine wickets, but in the next two England were victorious.

Australia had scored a massive 586 ( Syd Gregory 201, George Giffen 161 ) and then dismissed England for 325.

But England responded with 437 and then dramatically dismissed Australia for 166 with Bobby Peel taking 6 for 67.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

The title of this book revived the Ashes legend and it was after this that England v Australia series were customarily referred to as " The Ashes ".

England and Australia were evenly matched until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

Australia recorded overwhelming victories both in England and on home soil.

England managed to stay in contention until the deciding final Test at The Oval, but yet another double hundred by Bradman, and 7 / 92 by Percy Hornibrook in England's second innings, enabled Australia to win by an innings and take the series 2 – 1.

Although England decisively won the Ashes 4 – 1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders.

England eventually faced a massive 707 run target for victory and failed, Australia winning the series 2 – 1.

The Ashes resumed after the war when England toured in 1946 – 47, and as in 1920 – 21, found that Australia had made the best post-war recovery.

Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the Second and Fourth Tests at Lord's and Headingley respectively ; the crowd at Headingley remains a record, and it was there that Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory.

After winning the First Test by an innings after being controversially sent in by Hutton, Australia lost its way and England took a hat-trick of victories to win the series 3 – 1.

Of the 20 Tests played during the four series, Australia won four and England three.

It was in the 1960s that the bipolar dominance of England and Australia in world cricket was seriously challenged for the first time.