Still captained by Bradman and now featuring the potent new ball partnership of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, Australia were convincing 3 – 0 winners.

Australia, now captained by Allan Border, had themselves been weakened by a rebel South African tour, the loss of Terry Alderman being a particular factor.

Later in the same year, he captained the West Indies team in Australia for the Bicentennial Youth World Cup where the West Indies reached the semi-finals.

Mallam found a team and, captained by Heathfield Stephenson, it arrived in Australia on Christmas Eve 1861 to be met by a crowd of more than 3000 people.

* He captained Australia in 28 Tests: 12 wins, 12 draws, 4 losses

Grace captained England in the First Test of the 1899 series against Australia at Trent Bridge, when he was 51.

To start the new season, the Test side played a " Rest of Australia " team, captained by Bradman, at Sydney in early October 1936.

He captained Australia between 1971 and 1975 before taking a central role in the breakaway World Series Cricket organisation.

Born into a cricketing family — his grandfather and brother also captained Australia — Chappell made a hesitant start to international cricket playing as a right-hand middle-order batsman and spin bowler.

At the 2004 Olympics, both the second place American team and the third placed Russians were captained by women in their mid twenties ; several other teams, including Australia, France and Canada, had many older gymnasts.

* Peter Wilson Born in Gateshead, played for Gateshead F. C, captained Australia.

The MCC team which toured Australia in 1924 – 25 was captained by Arthur Gilligan.

In 1968-69, Sobers captained the West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1968-69 but they lost the series 3-1 and then drew a three-Test series in New Zealand 1-1.

In addition, he has captained the state representative sides of both Victoria and South Australia.

Test cricket resumed in the 1920 / 21 season in Australia with a touring English team, captained by Johnny Douglas losing all five Tests to Australia, captained by the " Big Ship " Warwick Armstrong.

Gregory Stephen Chappell MBE ( born 7 August 1948 in Unley, South Australia ) is a former cricketer who captained Australia between 1975 and 1977 and then joined the breakaway World Series Cricket ( WSC ) organisation, before returning to the Australian captaincy in 1979, a position he held until his retirement 1984.

He was steeped in the game from a very early age: his father Martin was a noted grade cricketer in Adelaide who put a bat in his hands as soon as he could walk, while his maternal grandfather was the famous all-round sportsman Victor Richardson, who captained Australia at the end of a nineteen-Test career.

He captained England to an Ashes series victory in Australia in 1986 / 87.

Gooch made his debut in Test cricket in 1975 at 21 against the touring Australia side captained by Ian Chappell.

He captained Australia in 28 Tests between 1979 and 1984 before captaining a " rebel " Australian team in a tour of South Africa, who at the time were subject to a sporting boycott.

Australia, the Philippine Islands, Japan, and northern China were inhabited by those members of the Haijac Union that spoke American.

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.

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

Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.

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.

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.

Australia then scraped home by five wickets inside three days in a low-scoring match at Headingley to retain the urn.

Bradman and Jack Fingleton injured themselves during Hutton's marathon effort, and with only nine men, Australia fell to defeat by an innings and 578 runs, the heaviest in Test history.

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.

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.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

All others were consolation victories when the Ashes had been secured by Australia.

The First Test at Lord's was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest victory by a runs margin in Ashes history, and the second-closest such victory in all Tests.

The first Sheriff, Mr Samuel Smart, was wounded during the robbery, and on 2 May 1838 one of the offenders, Michael Magee, became the first person to be hanged in South Australia.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

Another notable wrist spinner is Michael Bevan from Australia, who was known for his speed and bounce.

Mandolins from other countries include The Loar ( China ), Michael Kelly ( Korea ), Eastman ( China ), Kentucky ( China ), Heiden ( Canada ), Gilchrist ( Australia ) and Morgan Monroe ( China ).

Michael " Mick " Doohan AM ( born in Brisbane, Australia ) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion, who won five consecutive 500 cc World Championships.

Similarly, Michael Richards was the focus of a series of advertisements for Vodafone which ran in Australia where he dressed and behaved exactly like Kramer, including the trademark bumbling pratfalls.

Around the time of the marriage, Sir Michael ’ s nephew, barrister Robert Audley, welcomes back to England his old friend, George Talboys, who has returned after three years of gold prospecting in Australia.

* George Michael Live in Australia ( 2010 )

Gorton was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1968, a Companion of Honour in 1971, a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1977 and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1988.

* Duffy, Michael, Man of Honour: John Macarthur, Sydney, Macmillan Australia, 2003.

Australia, in 1989 allocated $ 50, 000 for the development of LETSystems, including the running of state conferences, the production of software, a LETSystems Training Pack, and assistance to Michael Linton to visit Western 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.

Ian Michael Chappell ( born 26 September 1943 ) is a former cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia.

The festival has grown to now cater for tens of thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims and has included as guests Yusuf Islam, famous Australian footballer, Hazem El Masri, the then Governor-General of Australia, Michael Jeffery and the previous Premier of New South Wales, Kristina Keneally.

Francis Michael Forde PC ( 18 July 189028 January 1983 ) was an Australian politician and the 15th Prime Minister of Australia.

In addition, Peter Jensen, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, among others announced their intentions not to attend.

Duffy eventually emigrated to Australia where he became a state premier, before being knighted as a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George ( KCMG ).

Relations with Australia were strained in 2006 when Prime Minister Michael Somare was accused of having facilitated Julian Moti's escape to the Solomon Islands.

Michael Hutchence's father, Kell Hutchence, " launched proceedings in Australia seeking sole custody of Lily after concerns over a new relationship Miss Yates began while being treated at a clinic for a nervous breakdown earlier this year.