He resumed performing in October 2010 and released his thirteenth studio album, Ashes & Fire, on October 11, 2011.

In 1953, Jardine resumed journalism for the Ashes series and expressed a high opinion of Len Hutton's captaincy.

England is the current holder after winning the Ashes in 2009 and again in the 2010 / 11 series in Australia.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

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 ".

WSC came after an era during which the duopoly of Australian and English dominance dissipated ; the Ashes had long been seen as a cricket world championship but the rise of the West Indies in the late 1970s challenged that view.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* Listen to a young Don Bradman speaking after the 1930 Ashes tour on australianscreen online

Nevertheless, it has returned items such as the Tasmanian Ashes after a 20 year long battle with Australia.

He resigned the captaincy after a loss and a draw in the first two Tests of the 1981 Ashes series.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

* Atlanta from the Ashes ( The Phoenix ), monument symbolizing Atlanta's rise after its burning in the American Civil War

In 1992, after the two World of Greyhawk Swords prequel modules and the Greyhawk Wars game had been on the market for some months, TSR released the new Greyhawk setting, From the Ashes, a boxed set primarily written by Carl Sargent that described the Flanaess in the aftermath of the Greyhawk Wars.

* WGQ1 Patriots of Ulek was the first module published after From the Ashes, and advanced the storyline in Ulek, threatened by invasion from Turrosh Mak of the Pomarj.

Taylor retired from professional cricket in early 1999 after the Ashes series.

He suffered a form slump during the 1990 – 91 Ashes series in Australia, and was dropped for the Fourth Test at Adelaide after making only 82 runs at 20. 50.

* Australia defeats England in The Ashes by 2 Tests to 1 after the first two Tests have been rained off.

Shortly after they arrive, a squad of robots land in a spaceship in the middle of the field and attack the assembled crowd, stealing The Ashes before departing.

Returning only moments after the robots ' attack at the Lord's Cricket Grounds, Arthur attempts to return the Ashes, but is suddenly inspired to bowl one shot at a wicket that is being defended using a cricket ball in his bag.

Ashes of the Chakri kings ( five ancestors ) are enshrined in the largest of these shrines, also known as the pantheons, that were rebuilt after a fire in 1903 during Rama IV's reign.

With The Ashes safe England lost the Fifth Test at the The Oval by 5 wickets, Snow taking only one wicket after a Lillee bouncer bruised his wrist in the first innings, leading to more accusations that he did not try in the Australian fourth innings run chase.

In 1771 he sent two history paintings, Pompey the Great after his Defeat and Cleopatra Weeping Over the Ashes of Mark Antony ( both now lost ) to the Royal Academy exhibition in London.

Thorpe announced his retirement from Test cricket after the England selectors chose Kevin Pietersen instead of him for the first Test of The Ashes in July 2005.

After the war, Australia took firm control of both the Ashes and world cricket.

He is known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation ( 1954 ), Kanał ( 1956 ) and Ashes and Diamonds ( 1958 ).

With the war over, the group collects the core of the Heart of Gold and the Ashes, the only two components of the Wikkit Gate not destroyed by the robots, and returns Zaphod and Marvin to the Heart of Gold.

They also made their runs faster than any other England team since the war and for once England batted faster than Australia, a refreshing contrast to other Ashes series of the era.

One, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, was written with his brother Andrew Cockburn prior to the war in Iraq.

According to the novel The Ashes of Eden, written by William Shatner, Starfleet Commander-in-Chief Androvar Drake orders the Enterprise-A decommissioned and destroyed during war games and weapons testing, but the Chal government intervenes.

Moeran, composer ; Lt General Sir Brian Horrocks, Commander of the XXX Corps under Montgomery, and later a TV lecturer on battles and war ; and Percy Chapman, captain of the England cricket team 1926-30, who won the Ashes.

The Ashes of the Wake album featured many songs critical of the war in Iraq, such as " Hourglass " and the instrumental title track.

During his war years, Fingleton decided to take up book writing, in addition to newspaper journalism, and began compiling a book about the Bodyline series during his spare time in the army, a topic that was still deep in the Australian consciousness, using his inside knowledge as a participant in that Ashes campaign.

Harris's television credits include Channel 4's drama series Cape Wrath as Gordon Ormond, the BBC series Ashes to Ashes as Arthur Layton, the Waking the Dead episode Pietà as former Serb war criminal Radovan Sredinić and as the corrupt Inspector Bob Craven in Channel 4's critically acclaimed Red Riding series.

In the interview accompanying the 2010 English language release of Wajda ’ s war trilogy, of which Ashes and Diamonds is the concluding part, the director says that he asked Zbyszek Cybulski ( who plays Maciek ), if he ’ d seen films with James Dean.

England retained the Ashes when they won the 1912 Triangular Tournament, which also featured South Africa.

All others were consolation victories when the Ashes had been secured by Australia.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

Benaud returned to form with match figures of 5 / 142 and 57 in the Fifth Test at Sydney, which ended in a painful draw when Benaud ordered Bill Lawry and Peter Burge to play out the last afternoon for a draw that would retain the Ashes.

England would be the first team to retain the Ashes when Australia visited them in 1884.

Bradman decided that his chances for Test selection would be improved by moving to Sydney for the 1928 – 29 season, when England were to tour in defence of the Ashes.

More controversially, during the 1991 Ashes Tour in Australia, England were playing a warm up match in Queensland when Gower together with batsman John Morris, chose to go for a joy-ride in two Tiger Moth biplane without telling the England team management.

Langley was mentioned in the first episode of the TV series Ashes to Ashes, in February 2008, when DI Alex Drake, played by Keeley Hawes mentions Langley, Virginia, most famous as home to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Snow started his First Class Cricket and Test Match career as a fast-medium seam bowler, but when he was not chosen for the 1965-66 Ashes tour of Australia he played club cricket in South Africa and re-modelled his bowling action.

Further recognition came when he, along with Wilfred Rhodes, joined the England selection committee for the Ashes series to be played that summer ; for professional cricketers to serve as England selectors was unprecedented.

Bowden was involved in an incident at the 2006 Brisbane Ashes test while standing at the square leg fielding position, when knocked to the ground by a ball hit by Geraint Jones.

then makes ‘ Sankalpa ’ of doing the Yajna and wakes the God up with motherly care by uncovering the ‘ Bhaasma ’ ( Ashes ) from the sacred fire continues from the day of the ‘ Praagatya ’ when the ‘ Aadi Purusha ’ ( first person ) of that Agnihotra Paramparaa ( tradition ), first invited ( lightened ) the Lord Agni by Vedic Method.

He made 119 in the second innings but injured his arm against fast bowler Garth McKenzie in a following one day match and missed the final Test, when England retained the Ashes.

The ECB courted further controversy in 2005 when they appeared to dither over the employment contract of the bowling coach Troy Cooley who was seen by many as an important contributor to England's Ashes success.

Famous players to have played cricket for Rochdale included Cecil Parkin, who was the club's professional in 1921 when he was selected to play for England in The Ashes Test against the Australians ; when Parkin was picked for England, Rochdale recruited another England Test player, Patsy Hendren, to play instead for a single match against Heywood.

Speaking to Michael Parkinson on BBC Radio 2 on 26 August 2007, when asked by his interviewer why he was commentating less these days, after initially attempting to side-step the question Blowers observed that " they obviously want to bring in new faces ", and added that during the Ashes tour in Australia during the winter of 2006 / 7 " I felt in a funny way that I wasn't part of it any more ".

The record international Rugby League crowd at the stadium was set for the first Ashes Test against Great Britain on their 1992 Australasian Tour when Australia won 22-6 in front of 40, 141.

However, he suffered a setback during the 1986-87 Ashes series when he lost form and was dropped after four Tests despite scoring 103 in the first innings at Adelaide.

* It was featured when Chris Skelton danced in Episode 5 of Series 3 on the BBC TV show " Ashes to Ashes.

One of his greatest moments was when he won the Man of the Match award for his performance in the 4th Ashes Test in 1998 at Melbourne, taking six second innings wickets in England's narrow victory, their only Test victory on that tour.

He was the captain of the England team when they regained the Ashes in 2005, eighteen years after having last won the trophy.