Cricket is a team sport involving a bat and ball played between two teams of eleven players each. The objective is to score more runs than the opposing team. A match is divided into innings during which one team bats, two batsmen at a time, and the other team bowls.
The Ashes is a biennialTest cricket contest played between England and Australia. The Ashes is one of cricket's fiercest and most celebrated rivalries, and certainly the oldest such in international cricket, dating back to 1882. The 2005 Ashes series was played in England, and was won by England. Australia had held the Ashes for 16 years prior to that. The next Ashes series will be in Australia in 2006-07; the next series in England will be in 2009.
The series is named after a satiricalobituary published in The Sporting Times in 1882 following the match at The Oval, in which Australia beat England in England for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died (more...)
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