Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ) ( 1980 ) produced the number one hit " Ashes to Ashes ", featuring the textural work of guitar-synthesist Chuck Hammer and revisiting the character of Major Tom from " Space Oddity ".

Bowden was involved in an incident at the 2006 Brisbane Ashes test while standing at the square leg fielding position, when knocked to the ground by a ball hit by Geraint Jones.

* 1981 – Ian Botham hit 118, including six sixes ( the second greatest number in an Ashes innings ), which he has called " one of the three innings I would like to tell my grandchildren about ".

He hit three centuries in the series, with 491 runs at 54. 56 despite which Australia lost the Ashes 4 – 1.

* His first Ashes century came in December 2006, when he hit 124 at the Adelaide Oval to help Australia to victory.

In 2007, she was cast as Alex Drake in the Ashes to Ashes, the spin-off to hit BBC series Life on Mars.

1993's Perpetual Motion Machine, produced by Critchley, was the band's breakthrough in Canada, spawning the hit singles " More ", " Bred in the Bone " and " Smoke & Ashes ", and led to a spot on The Tragically Hip's Another Roadside Attraction tour.

He made his major breakthrough in the fifth match of the season when he hit 266 ( after being dropped on 12 ) against New South Wales at Sydney in 1960 – 61, shortly before the Australian selectors chose the team for the 1961 Ashes tour.

* Australian wicket keeper Adam Gilchrist hit the second fastest hundred in Test Match history, off 57 balls, in the 3rd Ashes Test match, in December 2006.

At 42 he was recalled to the England team for the 1953 Lords Test, where took 4 / 82 and hit 50 runs to ensure a vital draw in the year England regained the Ashes.

Peters, Dussault, Choiniere, Mentley & Macaluso hit the inaugural Sounds Of The Underground tour with Lamb of God, Clutch, Poison the Well, Opeth, From Autumn to Ashes, Unearth, Chimaira, Norma Jean, Every Time I Die, GWAR, Strapping Young Lad, High on Fire, All That Remains, Madball, DevilDriver, Terror, A Life Once Lost, Fear Before the March of Flames, The Red Chord, NORA and The Black Dahlia Murder.

He is known largely for his feats during the 1986 / 87 Ashes series where he hit three centuries in consecutive Tests, and for his fiery demeanour at the crease.

Although one of the many Australian batsman who struggled on the 1981 Ashes tour, Yallop hit 114 at Old Trafford then was again dropped two games later.

In the first Test at Edgbaston, he hit 49 from 67 balls and bagged 5 / 38 in England's second innings as Australia claimed the only decisive result of the series, which enabled them to retain the Ashes.

This is the only time in Ashes Tests where a player has reached 100 with a hit out of the ground.

He hit a decisive 112 in one of the Tests and the following year played his first Ashes Tests at Trent Bridge and Lord's.

Nevertheless, his conduct lead to a three-year Test ban, but he was eventually granted a recall for The Ashes series in 1993 after he had hit a century for Glamorgan against the Australians, but he failed to make much of an impact with the bat.

In 1897, though expensive as a bowler, Wainwright hit five centuries and was named for the 1897 / 1898 Ashes tour in that capacity.

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.

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single " Ashes to Ashes ", its parent album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ), and " Under Pressure ", a 1981 collaboration with Queen.

During the following Australian winter ( 1926 ), an ageing Australian team lost The Ashes in England, and a number of Test players retired.

In 1980, David Bowie scored his first UK number one in nearly a decade thanks to director David Mallet's eye catching promo for " Ashes to Ashes ".

The video for David Bowie's 1980 UK number one single " Ashes to Ashes " included appearances by Strange with three other Blitz Kids and propelled the New Romantic movement into the mainstream.

In his 38th hundred and eighth in an Ashes series, the Australian number three batsman became just the fourth man to score 11, 000 runs in Test cricket.

During the 2006 Ashes Perth Test, on commenting on the need for England's Steve Harmison to intimidate Australia's number 11 Glenn McGrath, Greig indicated the need to " Touch him up, before rolling him over "-much to the hilarity of his co-commentators.

Ponting suggested that Watson would bat at the number 6 position in the Ashes series against England in 2006 – 07, and he was named in the squad.

Beginning with the 1965-66 Ashes series, he sometimes batted at number three rather than, as hitherto, opening the innings.

It is still the record number of wickets by an Englishman in an Ashes series in Australia.

Although the album did not maintain the same popularity of the last two albums, Straight Ahead and Land of the Free ?, From the Ashes reached number 54 on the Billboard 200 and number 4 on the Top Independent Albums chart, marking the highest initial charting album in Pennywise's career.

She also starred in a number of films, including Angela's Ashes.

While he scored a number of fifties against various teams ( notably Australia ), he was only able to add one more century to his tally-133 against Australia at The Oval in the 2001 Ashes series.

During the build-up to the final Ashes Test of 2009, with the series poised at 1-1, Ramprakash was widely touted in the press as a possible choice to improve the struggling England middle order, with a number of pundits, including Alec Stewart, suggesting his selection.

Coming into the Ashes series, with Andrew Flintoff named as captain for the tour and reclaiming his place at number six in the batting order, Bell was viewed as competing with Alastair Cook and Paul Collingwood for two places in the starting eleven.

The England cricket team toured Australia in 2002 – 03, playing a five-Test series for The Ashes and a number of tour matches against Australian domestic teams.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

Princess Margaret was portrayed by Lucy Cohu in the Channel 4 TV drama The Queen's Sister ( 2005 ), by Trulie MacLeod in the TV drama The Women of Windsor ( 1992 ), and by Hannah Wiltshire in the TV drama Bertie and Elizabeth ; she is portrayed silently in the second series première of Ashes to Ashes ( 2009, set in 1982 ) and subsequently complains off-camera about one of the principal characters.

The tradition continues with The Ashes series remaining one of the most anticipated events on the Australian sporting calendar.

In the novels and the new radio series ( the latter of which dismisses the events of the second radio series as one of Zaphod's " psychotic episodes "), Ford and Arthur escape prehistoric Earth via an eddy in the space-time continuum and a time-travelling Chesterfield sofa that deposits them in the middle of Lord's Cricket Ground at the climax of the final ( in more ways than one, it turns out ) match in the Ashes series, the day before the destruction of Earth by the Vogons.

Returning only moments after the robots ' attack at the Lord's Cricket Grounds, Arthur attempts to return the Ashes, but is suddenly inspired to bowl one shot at a wicket that is being defended using a cricket ball in his bag.

Originally intended to be a distraction piece for him to get his mind off of the heavily delayed Ashes of Time, it ended up being one of his most popular films.

Wong's fourth movie, Ashes of Time ( 1994 ), released between Chungking Express and Fallen Angels, applied his approach to a star-studded wuxia ( martial arts swordplay ) story ; the desert shoot in Mainland China dragged on for over a year and resulted in one of contemporary Hong Kong cinema's most notorious commercial disasters.

Although it received limited box office success, the parallels Ashes of Time draws between modern ideas of dystopia imposed on a wuxia film has led many critics to cite it as one of Wong Kar-wai's most underappreciated works.

They beat England by 159 runs in the First Test at Old Trafford, Snow taking 4 / 94 on his Ashes debut, but England had only one spinner on a wicket that increasingly turned.

With The Ashes safe England lost the Fifth Test at the The Oval by 5 wickets, Snow taking only one wicket after a Lillee bouncer bruised his wrist in the first innings, leading to more accusations that he did not try in the Australian fourth innings run chase.

Together they wrote several songs, one of them " Ashes To Ashes " would later be released as a 12-inch single on the Norwegian label Tatra Productions in 1991.

" In 1939, Wisden reflected on Bill O ' Reilly's successful 1938 Ashes tour of England: " He is emphatically one of the greatest bowlers of all time.