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rain-hit and England
Wijesuriya was also picked for the 1979 tour of England, where he ended up with ten wickets at an average of 37. 70 in five first class games, including three for 13 against Scotland in a rain-hit three-day game.

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The Scots and the Irish were mostly competing with Sri Lanka for the title as the best non-Test nation at the time indeed, Ireland drew with Sri Lanka in a rain-hit first-class match in 1979, Ireland scoring a total of 341 for 7 in two innings, while Sri Lanka made 288 for 6 in one innings.

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Northamptonshire drew with Leicestershire in a rain-hit match that only permitted 75 overs of play.

series and 1926
Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 29 series.
He made a series of woodcut illustrations for an edition of Vergil's Eclogues published by Harry Graf Kessler in 1926 27.
Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s through the end of his life in 1926, Monet worked on " series " paintings, in which a subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions.
Indeed, after finishing third in the 1926 season, it was to be 14 years before Essendon would even contest a finals series.
Leonard Rossiter ( 21 October 1926 5 October 1984 ) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series and film Rising Damp ( 1974 80 ), and Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ( 1976 79 ).
Spurred on by a series of seminars in Poland in 1926 by Łukasiewicz that advocated a more natural treatment of logic, Jaśkowski made the earliest attempts at defining a more natural deduction, first in 1929 using a diagrammatic notation, and later updating his proposal in a sequence of papers in 1934 and 1935.
Edward Stratemeyer hired Mildred Benson in 1926 to assist in expanding his roughly-drafted stories in order to satisfy increasing demand for his series.
Between 1926 and the end of 1927, Waller recorded a series of pipe organ solo records.
The first Glastonbury Festivals were a series of cultural events held in summer, from 1914 to 1926.
After a series of league mergers and folds, the Cup became the de facto championship trophy of the NHL in 1926 and then the de jure NHL championship prize in 1947.
Water lilies were depicted by the French artist Claude Monet ( 1840 1926 ) in a series of paintings.
In 2006 the BBC ran a series of programmes called The Lost World of Friese-Greene, presented by Dan Cruickshank about Claude Friese-Greene's road trip from Land's End to John o ' Groats, The Open Road, which he filmed from 1924 to 1926 using the Biocolour process.
From 1995 through 2009, author and historian Gregory Franzwa ( 1926 2009 ) wrote a state-by-state series of books about the Lincoln Highway.
By 1926, management of the club had passed on to a new generation of members, and it was through their efforts that Odd were finally admitted into the regional series in 1927, ten years after the club was founded.
* Richard Anderson ( born 1926 ), best known for his role as Oscar Goldman, in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman TV series and subsequent TV movies.
She was educated at home by a series of governesses except for a six month period in 1926 when she was sent to a day school in Paris.
A series of mining accidents — namely a 1926 mine explosion — damaged the company's image and led to out-of-control workers ' compensation payments, however, and in 1929 Roane Iron shut down operations.
He wrote a series of works on the nature of poetry, including The Idea of Great Poetry ( 1925 ) and Romanticism ( 1926 ).
His entire catalog of commercial recordings was issued by RCA Victor, save for two single-sided recordings for Brunswick in 1926 ( his first by the electrical process ) with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and a series of excellent recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1939 for EMI's HMV label ( which was RCA Victor's European affiliate ).
Clouds of Witness is a 1926 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
De Lempicka painted her only child repeatedly, leaving a striking portrait series: Kizette in Pink, 1926 ; Kizette on the Balcony, 1927 ; Kizette Sleeping, 1934 ; Portrait of Baroness Kizette, 1954-5, etc.
* The Benson Murder Case ( 1926 ), the best-selling first entry in the series of detective novels by S. S. Van Dine featuring detective Philo Vance, is based on the unsolved murder of bridge expert Joseph Elwell, who was found shot to death in a room locked from the inside, minus his toupee, physical circumstances which are duplicated in the novel.
In 1926, he played his first Test match against Australia in the second Test of the series, at Lord's.
Comic strip historian Bill Blackbeard ( 1926 2011 ) edited a series of strip reprints for SPEC Productions.

series and England
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.
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.
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.
England lost only four Ashes Tests in the 1880s out of 23 played, and they won all the seven series contested.
But England dominated, winning the next three series to 1896 despite continuing player disputes.
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.
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 ".
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.
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.
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.
Of the 20 Tests played during the four series, Australia won four and England three.
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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