Frankie was fairly glutted with ideas, as he had hinted upon his arrival: `` It's really tremendous when you think Ella Fitzgerald is coming from Australia.

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

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

:“ 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 ”.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

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.

Australia had a narrow first innings lead of 22.

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.

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.

The MCC had made it clear, in light of the revelations of the bodyline series, that these players would not face Australia.

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.

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.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

This was a remarkable match in which Australia looked certain to take a 2 – 0 series lead after they had forced England to follow-on 227 runs behind.

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

In the period between 1989 and the beginning of the 2005 series, the two sides had played 43 times ; Australia winning 28 times, England 7 times, with 8 draws.

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

The 12 countries had significant interests in Antarctica at the time: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.

In order for the song to become the anthem, it had to face a vote between the Royal anthem God Save the Queen, the " unofficial anthem " Waltzing Matilda and Song of Australia.

The first intercolonial match had been played between Victoria and South Australia on 2 August 1879.

In the latter part of the 1990s Waugh himself, along with his twin brother Mark, scored heavily for Australia and fast bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie made a serious impact, especially the former.

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

Jonathan Trott ( England ) scored 168 not out while Peter Siddle ( Australia ) took 6 – 75.

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.

In January 1993, Lara scored 277 versus Australia in Sydney.

Before the Test series started he scored consecutive centuries against Tasmania and Australia A these were his first in two years.

In the third Test, they scored 517 and although Mark Taylor carried his bat for 169, Australia needed to bat 109 overs to save the match.

Sydney Cricket Ground curator, Ned Gregory, playing in his one and only Test for Australia, scored Test cricket ’ s first duck.

Australia racked up 245 and 104 while England scored 196 and 108 giving Australia victory by 45 runs.

England ’ s Derek Randall scored 174, Australia ’ s Rod Marsh also got a century, Lillee took 11 wickets, and David Hookes, in his first test, smacked five fours in a row off England captain Tony Greig ’ s bowling.

Benaud scored his maiden first-class century, 117 against South Australia, in the next match, two years after falling short of the milestone by seven runs.

During the 1956 tour to England, he helped Australia to its only victory in the Lord's Test, when he scored a rapid 97 in the second innings in 143 minutes from only 113 balls.

In a one-off Test against Pakistan in Karachi, he scored 56 and took 1 / 36 as Australia fell to defeat.

The highest Test wicket partnership involving Grace was at The Oval in 1886 when he and William Scotton scored 170 for the first wicket against Australia.

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.

As a result of the innings defeat in Perth, Taylor was immediately recalled for the tour of New Zealand, where he scored 82 in the First Test at Christchurch to help Australia to an innings victory.

He then scored 27 and 53 as Australia won the next two Tests by an innings, totalling 286 runs at 95. 33 in three Tests as Australia won 2 – 0.

Australia again took a first innings lead in the Third Test, but could not force a result, as Malik scored another second innings century to ensure safety and a 1 – 0 series win.

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

In the final two Tests, he scored half-centuries as Australia won 3 – 1.

He scored 46 and a duck — his first in Australia — as England were saved when thunderstorms forced the abandonment of play on the final afternoon.