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The First Test at Brisbane ended in a draw, but England won the Second Test, at Adelaide, by an innings and 71 runs.
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Australia won the First Test by nine wickets, but in the next two England were victorious.
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In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.
Australia promptly seized the initiative, won the First Test convincingly and inaugurated a dominant post-war era.
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.
Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series.
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.
The 2009 series began with a tense draw in the First Test at SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff, with final pair James Anderson and Monty Panesar surviving 69 balls.
Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.
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Later that season, under his captaincy, West Indies won the two match Test series against Sri Lanka 1 – 0 with Lara making a double century in the First Test.
The first day cover involving Muralitharan bears an official seal captioned as " The highest wicket taker in Test cricket, MUTHIAH MURALIDARAN, First Day of Issue 03. 12. 2007, Camp Post Office, Asgiriya International Cricket Stadium, Kandy ".
Benaud was given a chance against the tourists when New South Wales played them in Sydney after the First Test.
However, this was not enough to ensure his selection in the First Test, where he was made 12th man.
Benaud contributed 46 and match figures of 2 / 73 in a First Test victory at Kingston.
He claimed his Test innings best of 7 / 72 in the first innings of the First Test in Madras, allowing Australia to build a large lead and win by an innings.
The first of these came in the First Test at Johannesburg, where after conceding 1 / 115, Benaud struck 122, his highest Test score, to see Australia reach a draw.
He led from the front with his bowling, taking match figures of 7 / 112 in his debut as captain as Australia claimed the First Test in Brisbane.
First and at
First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.
Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.
It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.
of their first engagement at Falling Waters after Old Jack's First Brigade had destroyed all the rolling stock of the B & O Railroad.
The Rev. Melvin Carter officiated at the ceremony in Slaughter Chapel of the First Baptist Church.
The First Christian Church of Pampa was the setting for the wedding last Sunday of Miss Marcile Marie Glison and Thomas Earl Loving Jr., who will live at 8861 Gaston after a wedding trip to New Orleans, La.
More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.
The best approach, he figured, was to try to influence young people like the high schoolers he and his wife serve as advisors at First Presbyterian Church.
Of particular meaning to the Charles MacWhorter family, 3181 SW 24th Ter., will be the Family Dedication Service planned for 10:50 a.m. Sunday at First Christian Church.
It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.
One of the most interested `` students '' on the tour which the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
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First and Brisbane
The First Test in Brisbane ended in the first tie in Test history, which came about after Benaud and Alan Davidson, rather than settle for a draw, decided to risk defeat and play an attacking partnership, which took Australia to the brink of victory.
Benaud started the series with seven wickets and a half century as the First Test in Brisbane was drawn.
Beginning the 1994 – 95 season with 150 for NSW in a tour match against the England, Taylor followed up with 59 in an opening stand of 97 as Australia made 426 in the first innings to take the initiative in the First Test in Brisbane.
Australia won the First Test in Brisbane by an innings in three and a half days, with Taylor contributing 69.
Taylor's swansong was the 1998 – 99 Ashes series against England, which began with his 100th Test in the First Test in Brisbane.
Controversy emerged on the first day of the First Test at Brisbane.
He bowled a long spell, taking 3 / 76, in the First Test against England at Brisbane in 1986 – 87, then scored 0 and 28 as Australia slumped to defeat.
In the First Test at Brisbane, Bill Lawry won the toss and decided to bat on a good wicket, but became Snow's 100th Test victim, caught by Alan Knott for 4.
He scored a celebrated 132 on the first day of the First Test at Brisbane Cricket Ground, the match which resulted in the first Tied Test.
Despite Border's unbeaten 152 in the second innings, Australia fell to a heavy defeat in the First Test at Brisbane.
Ponting scored 119 runs at 39. 66 in the three-Test home series against New Zealand in 1997 – 98, including a breezy 73 not out from 85 balls in the second innings of the First Test in Brisbane to help Australia set a winning target.
England toured for the 2002 – 03 Australian season, and Ponting struck 123 in the First Test in Brisbane.
After making 54 and 50 in the rain-drawn First Test in Brisbane, Ponting scored double-centuries in back-to-back Tests against India, in the Second Test at Adelaide ( 242 ) and at Melbourne ( 257, his career high ).
In the series against the West Indies, Ponting scored a century in each innings of the First Test in Brisbane, 149 and 104 not out.
In the First Test in Brisbane, Ponting top-scored in Australia's first innings with 196 runs, and he followed this up with 60 not out in the second as Australia took the initiative with a commanding win.
The First Test in Brisbane was drawn after both sides posted large batting totals.
In the First Test at Brisbane he badly cut his hand when he hit a billboard while fielding and batted at the bottom of the order.
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He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and then studied classics at the University of Queensland, before joining the military when the First World War broke out.
Lawry made his Test debut on Australian soil in the First Test of the 1962 – 63 Ashes series at Brisbane.
Lawry began well with 43 and 87 * in a drawn First Test at Brisbane overshadowed by the no-balling of Ian Meckiff.
His 166 in the First Test in Brisbane helped Australia, in the absence of the incapacitated and unavailable Simpson, to set a total of 6 / 443 declared and force England to follow on, but they managed to hold on for a draw.
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