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England won the three-match series 3-0.
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England and won
With that act of Parliament the opponents of the stage won the day, and for more than two decades after that England had no legitimate public drama.
One example of this ( from the Queen's Bench in England ) is Doyle v Olby ( Ironmongers ) Ltd 2 QB 158, the claimant appealed ( successfully ) on the basis that, although he won in the court below, the lower court had applied the wrong measure of damages and he had not been fully recompensated.
The three-match series resulted in a two-one win to England, notwithstanding a fourth match, won by the Australians, whose status remains a matter of ardent dispute.
England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven .”
Australia won the First Test by nine wickets, but in the next two England were victorious.
At the end of the Third Test, England were generally considered to have " won back the Ashes " 2 – 1.
England lost only four Ashes Tests in the 1880s out of 23 played, and they won all the seven series contested.
The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.
England went on to win the series 3 – 2 after it had been all square before the Final Test, which England won by 6 wickets.
In 1896 England under the captaincy of W G Grace won the series 2 – 1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance.
England won the last Test at The Oval by one wicket.
England won it against the odds, and Plum Warner, the England captain, wrote up his version of the tour in his book How We Recovered The Ashes.
Then England won in 1911 – 12 by four matches to one.
England retained the Ashes when they won the 1912 Triangular Tournament, which also featured South Africa.
England won only one Test out of 15 from the end of the war until 1925.
Sutcliffe went on to make 161 and England won the game comfortably.
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 tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 – 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.
Of the 20 Tests played during the four series, Australia won four and England three.
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.
England won 3 – 1.
Then Chris Broad scored three hundreds in successive Tests and bowling successes from Graham Dilley and Gladstone Small meant England won the series 2 – 1.
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.
England and three-match
The three-match ODI series in England preceded the Tests and Waugh scored 41 runs at 20. 50 and took five wickets at 30. 20.
* England retain The Ashes, defeating Australia 2 – 1 in a three-match series.
* An Australian team tours England but loses the three-match Test series 1 – 0 with two matches drawn.
However, after teammate Navjot Singh Sidhu left the touring, citing ill-treatment by then captain Mohammad Azharuddin, Ganguly made his Test debut against England in the Second Test of a three-match series at Lord's Cricket Ground alongside Rahul Dravid.
England had won the First Test of the three-match series ; however, Ganguly scored a century, becoming only the third cricketer to achieve such a feat on debut at Lord's, after Harry Graham and John Hampshire.
Les Ames, who played in the three-match series, won by England 2 – 0, believed that the West Indian pacemen worried Hammond, who showed a weakness against short, fast bowling.
The one-off game would be a departure from the usual three-match series, additionally the contest would be between England, rather than Great Britain, and Australia.
Nevertheless, the New Zealand team, and Cairns in particular, received unprecedented adulation when they returned home for a three-match series against England, who had lost the Ashes 2-1 and had failed to make the WSC Finals in their recently completed Australian tour.
Rana made his ODI debut against England at Chittagong on 7 November 2003 in the first match of a three-match ODI series.
With the West Indies touring England in 2004, it was expected that Harmison, who had also shone in the three-match Test series against New Zealand earlier in 2004, would again be England's lead bowler, and the West Indies captain Brian Lara went as far as suggesting that England had no plan B after Harmison.
He was first capped on 12 June 1983 in a 0-0 friendly draw against Australia, where England were taking part in a three-match tour.
He captained England in the three-match series against South Africa in 1907, winning one match and drawing two.
* Australia beat England 2 – 1 in the three-match ODI NatWest Challenge.
* England beat Sri Lanka 3 – 0 in the three-match series
* England beat Sri Lanka 2 – 0 in the three-match series
The West Indies lost the three-match Test series 1 – 0 against a very strong England side, although critics judged the overall playing record of the team to be good.
England and series
Such a series of articles was certainly never printed in the public press of mid-Victorian England.
The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia since 1882.
The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.
England is the current holder after winning the Ashes in 2009 and again in the 2010 / 11 series in Australia.
The next series will be held in 2013 in England.
There is no indication that this was the accepted name for the series, at least not in England.
As it took many years for the name " The Ashes " to be given to the ongoing series between England and Australia, there was no concept of there being a representation of the ashes being presented to the winners.
But England dominated, winning the next three series to 1896 despite continuing player disputes.
The title of this book revived the Ashes legend and it was after this that England v Australia series were customarily referred to as " The Ashes ".
In a rain-hit series in 1926, England managed to eke out a 1 – 0 victory with a win in the final Test at The Oval.
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.
England eventually faced a massive 707 run target for victory and failed, Australia winning the series 2 – 1.
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.
England failed to win any series during the 1960s, a period dominated by draws as teams found it more prudent to save face than risk losing.
West Indies defeated England twice in the mid-1960s and South Africa, in two series before they were banned for apartheid, completely outplayed Australia 3 – 1 and 4 – 0.
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.
The 1972 series finished 2 – 2, with England under Illingworth retaining the Ashes.
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