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Cricket and Australia
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 ).
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.

Cricket and proposed
Grace became a member of Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) in 1869 after being proposed by the treasurer, Thomas Burgoyne, and seconded by the secretary, Robert Allan Fitzgerald.
* In his best-selling novel Netherland, Joseph O ' Neill locates the site of the character Chuck Ramkissoon's proposed New York Cricket Club and ground at Floyd Bennett Field.
But the most significant occurrence of this match occurred off-field: Chappell was approached to sign with a proposed break away competition, later to be known as World Series Cricket ( WSC ).
Fred Wills served as club captain for the Demerara Cricket Club ( DCC ) in Georgetown, Guyana, and was a popular announcer at cricket games in the U. S. Guyanese cricket fans have proposed renaming the DCC Pavilion as Fred Wills Pavilion.
The proposed extra match fell through after a pay standoff led behind the scenes by Ian Chappell, later to spearhead the breakaway World Series Cricket ( WSC ), which offered players substantial remuneration.
The City of Birmingham Stadium is a proposed multi-purpose stadium in the Saltley area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, originally for Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Birmingham City F. C., to replace the current St Andrews Stadium.
The idea of a competition involving all three of the nations then playing Test cricket ( Australia, England and South Africa ) was proposed at the first meeting of the Imperial Cricket Council in July, 1909.

Cricket and 2010
He nevertheless affirmed his commitment to returning to Twenty20 cricket, and on 27 June 2010 appeared for the Marylebone Cricket Club match against a touring Pakistan team, scoring 37 from 32 balls.
* 2010 Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first Cricket player to score a Double hundred in One Day International format.
In 2010, it was expanded and rebranded as the International Cricket Hall of Fame.
On 20 July 2010 ( 21 years after his death ) a blue plaque was unveiled by comedian Jimmy Cricket, a friend of Worth's, on the house where he was born.
As of 2010, the Cricket Club 1st XI play in Division 1 of the York Vale Cricket League with the 2nd X I playing in Division 4.
He was named Australian of the Year in 2004 for his philanthropic work, and inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in front of his home fans at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 2010.
He also joined Northamptonshire County Cricket Club for the 2010 T20 competition and found himself in the unusual position of opening the batting although he did well recording three half centuries.
* Thurles Cricket Club ( Founded 2010 )
File: Beduoins_day. jpg | Oswestry Cricket Clubs Pavilion, August 2010
On 8 March 2010, Kapil Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame
The West Indies hosted the 2007 Cricket World Cup of ODI Cricket and the 2010 Twenty20 World Cup.
Fitzherbert Park hosted the 2010 U-19 Cricket World Cup in which 16 teams from around the world took part along with hosts New Zealand.
In February 2010, the school also hosted the England Blind Cricket squad for training sessions.
In 2010, Sharad Pawar became the International Cricket Council president after England's David Morgan.
On 11 March 2010, Hayden announced his intention to use the Mongoose Cricket Bat, a bat specially tailored to the needs of Twenty20 cricket, during the 2010 IPL.
In 2010 the club received a £ 57, 000 grant from the England & Wales Cricket Board.
He also hosted the Phil Tufnell Cricket show on BBC radio 5 during the 2010 season, although this ended before the conclusion of the season.
In 2010, after relocating to Leicestershire, he joined Syston Town Cricket Club, playing in the Everards County League.
In late 2010, he was training in Taunton at the facilities of Somerset County Cricket Club, whom he has now joined as a temporary spin-bowling coach for the 2011 Caribbean Twenty20 competition.
Research Cricket Club and Eltham Collegians Cricket Club were both Diamond Valley Cricket Association teams based in Research, until they merged in 2010 to form one club.

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