The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.

Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory in one of the closest and most nail-biting finishes in the history of cricket.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

:“ In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket “ whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia ”.

This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.

WSC came after an era during which the duopoly of Australian and English dominance dissipated ; the Ashes had long been seen as a cricket world championship but the rise of the West Indies in the late 1970s challenged that view.

* 1875 – William Donne, English cricket player ( d. 1942 )

* 1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire

The English press and cricket authorities declared the Australian protests to be a case of sore losing and " squealing ".

It was only with the return of the English team and the subsequent use of Bodyline against English players in England by the touring West Indian cricket team in 1933 that demonstrated to the country the dangers it posed.

In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day.

* 2009 – Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician ( b. 1939 )

* 1879 – John Symes, English cricket player ( d. 1942 )

* 1958 – Mark Benson, English cricket player

* John Nash ( cricket administrator ) ( 1906 – 1977 ), English Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1931 – 1971

Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932 – 33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman.

The terminology reflected differences in understanding, as neither the English public nor the Board of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC )— the governing body of English cricket — could understand why the Australians were complaining about what they perceived as a commonly used tactic.

* 1977 – Andrew Strauss, English cricket player

Another grandstand seating 2000 and facing one way to the cricket ground and the other way to the park where football was played, was built in 1876 for the 1877 visit of James Lillywhite ’ s English cricket team.

The Victorians however, were no match for the English at cricket and the visitors won by an innings and 96 runs.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

In 1951 the English High School asked its former students for permission to re-establish the name " Alumni " for a rugby team.

* 1942 – Frank Williams, English founder and team principal of the WilliamsF1 Formula One racing team

The UK Utterly Butterly display team flying Boeing Boeing-Stearman Model 75 | Stearman PT-17 biplanes at an English air show

Some saw the 1891 team — the first sanctioned by the Rugby Football Union — as the English national team, though others referred to it as " the British Isles ".

The Australian press dubbed the tactic Bodyline, and claimed it was a deliberate attempt by the English team to intimidate and injure the Australian players.

In 1968, he captained the Manchester United team that won the European Cup, scoring two goals in the final to help his team be the first English side to win the competition.

Charlton was an established player by the time the next season was fully underway, which saw United, as current League champions, become the first English team to compete in the European Cup.

Even though other clubs had taken part in the competition in the intervening decade, the team which got to this final was still the first English side to do so.

| Real Madrid, and Los Angeles Galaxy and holds the all-time appearance record for an Outfield # Association football | outfield player in the England national football team | English national team.

* Woking F. C., an English association football team

Supporters of English Premier League team Chelsea and Football League team Gillingham regularly sing songs about the vegetable and are famed for throwing celery during matches.

The assistant coach, Jim Neff, an English teacher and rock ' n ' roll fan, thought to inspire the team by playing Kiss music in the locker room.

They were the most consistent team in the top flight of English football over the three seasons immediately before the Second World War.

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

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.

The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia ( 1882 – 83 ) as the quest to regain The Ashes.

:“ When in the autumn the English Eleven went to Australia it was said that they had come to Australia to “ fetch ” the ashes.

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably Ian Meckiff, whom the English management and media accused of illegally throwing Australia to victory.

After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.

* 1938 – English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.

English is the primary language spoken throughout Australia.

Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.

The membership of nearly 25, 000 women, all singing in English, includes choruses in most of the fifty United States as well as in Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Wales and the Netherlands.

The English opening bowlers Sydney Barnes and Frank Foster used leg theory with some success in Australia in 1911-12.

On the 1932-33 English tour of Australia, Larwood and Voce bowled fast leg theory at the Australian batsmen.

Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Belize, and various Caribbean and African nations have adopted English common law through reception statutes although they do not inevitably continue to copy English Common Law ; later cases can often draw on decisions in other Common Law jurisdictions.

Written English as used in the Commonwealth generally favours British as opposed to American spelling, with some exceptions in Canada and Australia.

It was also licensed by Beez Entertainment for English releases in the United Kingdom, and by Madman Entertainment for releases in Australia and New Zealand.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.