Australia had one of the strongest batting line-ups ever in the early 1930s, with Bradman, Archie Jackson, Stan McCabe, Bill Woodfull and Bill Ponsford.

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

In 1970 – 71, Ray Illingworth led England to a 2 – 0 win in Australia, mainly due to John Snow's fast bowling, and the prolific batting of Geoffrey Boycott and John Edrich.

In the Fourth Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground, England batting second scored 513 to defeat Australia ( 98 & 258 ) by an innings and 157 runs.

Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.

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.

Australia won the five-Test series 2 – 1, with Don Bradman scoring 974 runs at a batting average of 139. 14, an aggregate record that still stands.

Australian bowler Fred Spofforth decimated the English batting after a shocking start by the Australians and the result was a nailbiting finish in which Australia won by seven runs – still one of the closest finishes in Test cricket history.

Aggressive lower order batting saw Australia set 328 in just over two sessions, but a heavy collapse saw Australia eight wickets down with more than hours to play.

Unable to recover form in the ODI series, Taylor's scratchy batting led to many poor starts for Australia.

For the Second Test at Port Elizabeth, played on a green pitch, Australia played Michael Bevan as a second spinner batting at number seven to reinforce the batting, instead of a third seamer to exploit the conditions.

His batting reached a new level in the Second Test at Lord's where he scored 254 as Australia won and levelled the series.

He played for South Australia in two matches to help with the re-establishment of first-class cricket and later described his batting as " painstaking ".

It was a free flowing innings marked by square driving, in just over five hours of batting which helped Australia set the platform for a win with a large first innings.

Against Australia at Adelaide in second match of the four match series, the batting pair of Dravid and VVS Laxman proved to be Australia's nemesis again.

Such form placed him in contention for a place in the England team to play Australia, but the strength of English batting at the time meant that he was not a certainty.

However, the match was a low-scoring one on a pitch which made batting difficult, and Australia left England needing 105 to win.

However, he scored a century against Australia at Lord's on a very difficult batting pitch in England's next game, sharing a partnership of 112 with Rhodes.

England continued batting to build up a large lead and bowled Australia out to win the Ashes.

Australia toured the West Indies in 1954-55, and their all-rounder Keith Miller thought that Sobers would become a better batsman than bowler despite batting in the lower-order.

In January 1972, in the Third ( unofficial ) Test between Australia and the Rest of the World XI at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Sobers played an innings of 254 which was described by Don Bradman as " probably the greatest exhibition of batting ever seen in Australia ".

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 first is between western Australia and eastern Africa.

In 1814 a bishop of Calcutta was made ; in 1824 the first bishop was sent to the West Indies and in 1836 to Australia.

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 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.

The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen, in his memoirs ( With Bat and Ball, 1899 ), used the term as if it were well known.

:“ 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 ”.

The 1890s games were more closely fought, Australia taking their first series win since 1882 with a 2 – 1 victory in 1891 – 92.

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.

At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903 – 04.

Australia had a narrow first innings lead of 22.

He started badly, losing the first two Tests heavily after Australia were caught on sticky wickets.

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

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

After Australia took a 1 – 0 lead in the first two Tests, Botham was forced to resign or was sacked ( depending on the source ).

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

Australia, captained by Michael Clarke, batted first on a cloudy day after winning the toss and were bowled out for 280.

England bowled Australia out again for 281 and so won a series on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years.

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.