In 1905 England's captain Stanley Jackson not only won the series 2 – 0, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages.

It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.

He was also England's captain for 12 Tests in 1980 and 1981.

When Jardine was appointed England's captain for the 1932 – 33 English tour of Australia, a meeting was arranged with Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr and his two fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce at London's Piccadilly Hotel to discuss a plan to combat Bradman's extraordinary skills.

After being named England's captain in 1996 and Newcastle's captain in 1999, he retired from international football following Euro 2000, having amassed 63 appearances and 30 goals for his country.

Jonny Wilkinson ( 1979 – ) England's world-cup-winning kicker and former captain, and England scrum half Peter Richards ( 1978 – ) were not born in Farnham but both played for Farnham Rugby Football Club at mini level.

Occasionally playing as captain, he is England's tenth most-capped player and has scored a national record of 26 competitive goals, with 40 in total from 89 appearances, most recently in 2008.

In April 2002, he was named as England's captain for a friendly match against Paraguay in place of the injured regular captain David Beckham.

But, Smith was known as a good tourist and was made captain of the England tour of India in 1963-64 when Ted Dexter and Colin Cowdrey were unavailable and without England's top bowlers Brian Statham and Fred Trueman.

It was his best series with 306 runs ( 51. 00 ) and when Ted Dexter retired after losing 1-0 to Bobby Simpson ’ s Australia in 1964 Smith was made captain for England's last tour of South Africa before the Basil d ' Oliveira Crisis.

In England's 20 – 17 victory over Australia, Johnson also performed at a monumental level, leading the former Australian captain, John Eales ( who retired in 2001 ), to commend his display as ' among the best ever by a lock forward '.

Neither happened, but the first genuine sign of competition came in 1987, when the Nottingham Forest left back and captain Stuart Pearce was given his England debut against Brazil and played well, setting up England's goal for Gary Lineker.

" On England's 1948 – 9 tour to South Africa, the England captain George Mann was bowled by his namesake Tufty Mann.

Terry's successor as captain, Rio Ferdinand, was injured in a training session prior to England's opening match, resulting in his withdrawal from the squad.

Andrew John Strauss, OBE ( born 2 March 1977 ) is a retired English cricketer who played county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is a former captain of England's Test cricket team.

Bill Bowes expressed approval of his leadership after initial misgivings, and went on to call him England's greatest captain.

In his Wisden obituary, Jardine was described as one of England's best captains, while Jack Hobbs rated him the second best captain after Percy Fender.

He is England's most capped right-back and was Manchester United's club captain for five years.

He was a member of England's World Cup winning squad in 2003, playing in all seven matches in the tournament, and is a former England captain.

He was appointed captain for England's last Test against the dominant Australian touring team in 1930, but lost the role to Douglas Jardine for the next few years.

In November 2008 Coming Back to Me was named the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and in April 2009, Trescothick turned down another request from new England captain Andrew Strauss to consider making himself available for England's World Twenty20 Championship campaign.

Jack Hobbs establishing himself as England's first-choice opening batsman with three centuries, while Frank Foster ( 32 wickets at 21. 62 ) and Sydney Barnes ( 34 wickets at 22. 88 ) formed a formidable bowling partnership.

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.

The need to break German codes in World War II led to advances in cryptography and theoretical computer science, with the first programmable digital electronic computer being developed at England's Bletchley Park.

It had a " golden age " in the United Kingdom in the early 1920s when crowds reached 50, 000 at some matches ; this was stopped on 5 December 1921 when England's Football Association voted to ban the game from grounds used by its member clubs.

The death of his father prevented Washington from crossing the Atlantic to receive the rest of his education at England's Appleby School, as his older brothers had done.

Banks did not play in England's first game after the World Cup, with Ramsey electing to give his old understudy Shilton a debut against East Germany at Wembley.

Shilton became England's number one and was also signed by Stoke City shortly afterwards from Leicester City ( the same club Stoke had bought Banks from ) to take over from Banks in goal at the Victoria Ground.

Advances in technology have never conclusively proved that the ball crossed the line ; on the contrary, in 1995 the Sunday Times reported that image analysis by researchers at Oxford University had concluded that the whole of the ball did not cross the goal-line, and so a goal should not have been awarded ( Computer blows whistle on England's 1966 World Cup win by Adam Jones and John Davison, 23 July 1995 ).

On 14 October, after having marched his exhausted army all the way from Yorkshire, Harold fought the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, where England's army was defeated and Harold was killed.

The famine of 1315 – 1316 may have killed more than 10 % of England's population, or at least 500, 000 people.

" A number of attempted fire insurance schemes came to nothing, but in 1681 Nicholas Barbon, and eleven associates, established England's first fire insurance company, the ' Insurance Office for Houses ', at the back of the Royal Exchange.

The next Test match, at Edgbaston, looked almost as hopeless, if not hapless, from England's point of view.

The longbow corps saw particularly heavy casualties at the Battle of Patay and this loss contributed to England's eventual defeat in that war.

However, marionette productions presented in empty halls, the back rooms of taverns, or within large tents at England's yearly agricultural events at Bartholomew Fair and Mayfair were expensive and cumbersome to mount and transport.

Lancelot " Capability " Brown, who became England's most renowned landscape architect, applied for the position of master gardener at Kew, and was rejected.

It was thought that the surface at The Oval would favour pacemen, but Australia's selection proved to be a blunder as England's spinners took them to the only win of the series, allowing them to regain the Ashes.

New England's defense then forced the Packers to punt from their own 17-yard line after a three-and-out, giving the Patriots the ball back after running back Dave Meggett received Craig Hentrich's 39-yard punt at the New England 43-yard line.

" In 1976, the Tourism Society of England's definition was: " Tourism is the temporary, short-term movement of people to destination outside the places where they normally live and work and their activities during the stay at each destination.

It was written by Roy Williamson of the folk group The Corries, and presented in 1967, and refers to the victory of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over England's Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.

This was aimed principally at England's outstanding bowler James Southerton who had been playing for both Surrey and Sussex, having been born in one and living in the other.

England national cricket team | England's team in W. G. Grace's final Test cricket | Test at Trent Bridge in 1899.