It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

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.

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

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 ).

Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010 – 11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

Australia holds the first day of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the start to the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve ( Windy Hill ) in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, Australia but match day home games are played at Etihad Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

* 1909 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.

Steve Smith and Brad Hogg of Australia have also used the flipper with great success in Limited Overs Cricket.

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

In 2007, when Cricket Australia decided to unveil the new Warne-Muralidaran Trophy, to be contested between Australia and Sri Lanka, Muralitharan was requested to clarify how his name should be spelt.

Cricket Australia spokesman Peter Young confirmed that " the spelling he's given is Muralidaran ".

During the second Test between Sri Lanka and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Boxing Day 1995, Australian umpire Darrell Hair called Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan for throwing in front of a crowd of 55, 239.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground hosts an One Day International | ODI match between Australia and India.

Queensland Bulls versus Victorian Bushrangers in a one-day match at the Brisbane Cricket Ground ( The Gabba ), Queensland, Australia

In 2006 Cricket Australia introduced the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash which was amongst the state teams ( as above ).

The first officially recognised Test match commenced on 15 March 1877, contested by England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ), where Australia won by 45 runs.

The commercial " Supertests " organised by Kerry Packer as part of his World Series Cricket enterprise and played between " WSC Australia ," " WSC World XI " and " WSC West Indies " from 1977 to 1979 have never been regarded as having official Test match status.

* March 12 – The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Raja worked as a CEO of the Pakistan Cricket Board, simultaneously serving as a cricket commentator.

Within months, the East African tournaments were regarded in high esteem and the intensity was up to the brink, as an ESPNCricinfo interview of Cricket Kenya CEO Tom Sears revealed.

Alloy Lequay went on to play a distinguished role as President and CEO of the Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board, from which he retired in 2005.

In 2009 he returned to his home city of Christchurch to become CEO of Canterbury Cricket an organisation to which he has dedicated much of his life.

Larsen is now the CEO of Cricket Wellington.

" Our commitment to the game at grassroots level will hopefully make a real difference on the ground ," Warren Deutrom, Cricket Ireland CEO, said.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

formed from West End Cricket Club, and in May 1886, the club moved into St James ' Park.

Chorley St James Cricket Club are the second side in the town, competing in the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League, having been members of the Chorley League until its demise in 2005.

* James Dark ( 1795 – 1871 ), proprietor of Lord's Cricket Ground

Cricket: the first English touring team pictured on board ship at Liverpool: standing at left Robert Carpenter ( cricketer ) | Robert Carpenter, William Caffyn, Tom Lockyer ; middle row John Wisden, HH Stephenson, George Parr ( cricketer ) | George Parr, James Grundy ( cricketer ) | James Grundy, Julius Caesar ( cricketer ) | Julius Caesar, Thomas Hayward ( cricketer ) | Thomas Hayward, John Jackson ( cricketer ) | John Jackson ; front row Alfred Diver, John Lillywhite

* In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of titles by James were published by Allison & Busby, including four volumes of selected writings: The Future In the Present, Spheres of Existence, At the Rendezvous of Victory, and Cricket.

* Dhondy, Farrukh, C. L. R. James: Cricket, the Caribbean and World Revolution.

Sheedy agreed to stay for the rest of the season In Sheedy's last home game as coach against Richmond in Round 21 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a near sell out crowd of 88, 468 people turned out to farewell him and James Hird.

There are also Tennis Courts at Sydney Parkinson Reserve and even better Tennis Courts on Matthew Flinders Avenue ( St. Paul's ), Football / Cricket Oval at James Cook Drive and the suburb boasts an abundance of parks.

Another line would head from St James Station via Taylor Square and the Sydney Cricket Ground, extending to Kingsford, with a proposal to extend from Taylor Square to Coogee.

Cricket twins Hamish Marshall and James Marshall, who represented New Zealand with the Black Caps Cricket Team, also attended Mahurangi College.

" His record as a wicket-taker and leader of the attack is fantastic and speaks for itself but his resilience and ability to bounce back after numerous injuries has also been impressive ," said James Sutherland, Cricket Australia Chief Executive Officer.

His central contract was then withdrawn, Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland called a press conference to announce Symonds ' dismissal, which is likely to mark the end of his international cricket career.

It is believed to have been farmed by James Triggs, the St Paul's Church verger, and part of it was developed as a cricket ground by the Papanui Cricket Club under the captaincy of John Matson with the permission of Rev.

* James Anderson ( cricketer born 1931 ), English cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club

The Western Australian Cricket Association was officially established on 25 November 1885 under the Presidency of JCH James.

* James Sykes ( cricketer ), ( born 1992 ) Leicestershire County Cricket Club cricketer.

In the second of these, against the Sri Lanka Cricket President's XI, Hoggard took 5 – 25 in a match that saw Steve Harmison and James Anderson fall foul of injuries.

With Additional Voices: Mimi Rogers, Rodger Bumpass, Andre ' Soliguzzo, Jessica Rogers, Cricket Leigh, Dakota Goyo, Janice Kawaye, Diane Michelle, James Bumpass, Vanessa Tomasino, Jessie Cave, Carla Gugino, Laraine Newman, Josh Phillips, Robin A. Downes, Judy David Azio Roberts and Cathy Cavadini.

Between August 1874 and June 1877, he played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, alongside W. G. Grace and his brother James Bush ; he was a right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper.

He helped James to get a job with the Manchester Guardian, and in return, James helped Constantine to write his first book, Cricket and I, which was published in 1933.