Kyle Minogue
Jason Donavon
Skippy
Shane and Sheila
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Rolf Harris
Mel Gibson
Russel Crowe
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Vegemite
your boys took one hell of a beating
England win the Ashes!!
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Big Tex
Bloody Hell! I'm still struggling to learn about the Premier League and now this!
BTW you forgot about Nicole Kidman. mmmmmmmmm ...
The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. It is one of international cricket's most celebrated rivalries and dates back to 1882. It is currently played biennially, alternately in Australia and England. Since cricket is a summer game, the venues being in opposite hemispheres means the break between series alternates between 18 and 30 months. A series of "The Ashes" usually comprises five Test matches (the number of matches has varied from 1 to 7, but is now generally expected to be 5), two innings per match, under the regular rules for international Test-match cricket. If a series is drawn then the country already holding the Ashes retains them.
The series is named after a satiricalobituary 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. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia (1882–83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.
During that tour a small terracotta urn was presented to England captainIvo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. Some Aborigines hold that The Ashes are those of King Cole, a cricketer who toured England in 1868. [1] The Dowager Countess of Darnley claimed recently [when?] that her mother-in-law, Bligh's wife Florence Morphy, said that they were the remains of a lady's veil. [citation needed]
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angel eyes
forget cricket...stick with football....WE love you chelsea we do!!!!!!!!!!! oh chelsea we love you...............
hey we won again...yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee