When and which was the first Australian cricket team to tour England?
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It's true that an  Aborigine cricket team toured England, actually in 1868, and were essentially the first ever Australian side to visit England (check :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_cricket_team_in_England_in_1868 ) ...but this tour was strictly a private money-making enterprise arranged by some white Australian showmen,  the team were never officially recognised at the time as representing Australia, and none of the matches they played were classified as first class.\n\nIt was not until ten years later in 1878 that the official Australian test team made its first ever trip to England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1878
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England. After all, they invented the sport.
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I suggest you contact Lords Cricket Ground or the Oval.\n\nWhether cricket is popular seems to depend upon how well England are beating Australia!!!   Women do play cricket but it is not usual.   However we do have county sides as well as an national side.\n\nfor some details, contact www.lords.org\nor contact:\nMarylebone Cricket Club\nLord's Cricket Ground\nSt John's Wood\nLondon NW8 8QN\n\nGeneral switchboard: 020 7616 8500\nThey will be very helpful!\n\nThey are having a women's cricket day on 14th August.   I know it is after July but they may have details of other things.\n\nCricket can be both fun and boring, so watch out!  Someone said it's a little like fishing - nothing can happen for ages then there is activity.   I like watching cricket but do not play\n\nEnjoy!
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Depends where in the world you happen to live, and when your summer is....the English season lasts from late April to early September, while the Australian season lasts from mid October to late March. \n\nInternational cricket continues all year round, as it is always summer somewhere in the world.
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Don't really know - but it has happened at least 9 times when a country has made its first test appearance. First instance was the 1st ever Test match at the MCG in 1877 D.Gregory for AUS and J.Shelby for ENG. Apart from that I think ENG had a captain on debut in the 1970's.
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NO,the worst first ball was bowled by Keith Miller to an English opening batsman[whose name escapes me at the moment] and it passed so far down the Leg side that the Aussie Keeper[Don Tallon} missed it and it went to the boundary for 4 wides and if i remember correctly it was a "No Ball"
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Limited overs matches, also known as one day cricket or instant cricket, were introduced in the English domestic season of 1963 due to the growing demands for a shorter and more dramatic form of cricket to stem the decline in attendances. One-day, single-innings, matches often took place before this, but the innovation was the limiting of each side's innings to an agreed number of overs (nowadays usually 50). The idea was taken up in the international arena in 1971, during England's tour of Australia, when a match was played on the scheduled fifth day of the rained-off third Test. The one-day game has since become a crowd-pleaser and TV-audience-generator across the globe, hastened in part by the success of the inaugural World Cup in 1975.
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It's a defensive approach by England. Not entirely surprising. The Gabba test first-up is always the most difficult one. It does make sense trying to save this test, instead of having an unrealistic attempt at winning it. Australians traditionally have been weak at Adelaide and Sydney - easier batting conditions and a little more of spin. England could go with the combination you suggested then.
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First One Day International was played in Melbourne between Australia and England on 7th January 1971. It was a 40 overs match. Australia won the toss and send England to bat first. England made 190 all out in 39.4 overs top scorer being English opener JH Edrich(82). Australia chased the target easily in 34.6 overs(8 ball over) with 5 wickets intact . Man of Match was given to JH Edrich for being the top scorer of the match.
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The series is named after a satirical obituary 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, 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.
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The Ashes is a Test cricket series, played between England and Australia - it is international cricket's oldest and most celebrated rivalry dating back to 1882. It is currently played approximately biennially, alternately in England and Australia. If a series is drawn then the country holding the Ashes retains them. The last Ashes series was played in England in 2005 when England regained The Ashes after a gap of 16 years by winning the series 2-1. The Ashes are currently being played in Australia 2006-07 with the first test held on 23 November 2006, in Brisbane. Australia winning the 1st Test Match by a crushing 277 runs. The following series will be held in England in 2009.\n\nThe series is named after a satirical obituary 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, 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.\n\nA small terracotta urn was presented to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women at some point during the 1882-83 tour. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. The urn is not used as a trophy for the Ashes series, and whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the MCC Museum at Lord's because it was bequeathed to the MCC by Ivo Bligh upon his death.[1] Since the 1998-99 Ashes series, a Waterford crystal trophy has been presented to the winners.
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Cricket was introduced to North America via the English colonies in the 17th century, probably before it had even reached the north of England. In the 18th century it arrived in other parts of the globe. It was introduced to the West Indies by colonists and to India by East India Company mariners in the first half of the century. It arrived in Australia almost as soon as colonisation began in 1788. New Zealand and South Africa followed in the early years of the 19th century.\n\nThe basic rules of cricket such as bat and ball, the wicket, pitch dimensions, overs, how out, etc. have existed since time immemorial. In 1727, we first hear of "Articles of Agreement" to determine the code of practice in a particular game and this became a common feature, especially around payment of stake money and distributing the winnings given the importance of gambling. In 1744, the Laws of Cricket were codified for the first time and then amended in 1774, when innovations such as lbw, middle stump and maximum bat width were added. These law stated that 'the principals shall choose from amongst the gentleman present two umpires who shall absolutely decide all disputes.' The codes were drawn up by the so-called "Star and Garter Club" whose members ultimately founded MCC at Lord's in 1787. MCC immediately became the custodian of the Laws and has made periodic revisions and recodifications subsequently.
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The game of cricket has a known history spanning from the 16th century to the present day, with international matches played since 1844, although the official history of international Test cricket began in 1877. During this time, the game developed from its origins in England into a game which is now played professionally in most of the Commonwealth of Nations.\n\nNo one knows when or where cricket began but there is a body of evidence, much of it circumstantial, that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th century.
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It has to be -- India vs Australia at Eden Gardens in Calcutta on 11th March 2001 --- This is one of the only 3 matches in the history of Test Cricket where a team which was made to follow-on won the match and by far with a great margin of 171 Runs! The earlier 2 matches( 1895 & 1981 Series) were won by England also against Australia with a margin of 10 and 18 runs respectively. In this match though... India was completely outplayed by Australia in their first innigs ( Aus 445 ) and then was bowled out for 171 and made to follow on where India with a mammoth partnership from Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman scored 657/7 and declared their innings and bowled out Australia for 212 in their second innings winning the match by 171 runs!\n\nOne more thing which makes this match a stand out one is.. The World Champions Australia were looking for their remarkable 17th Successive Test Match Victory and almost looked as if they had it until this great turn around happened...and it required such a match to stop Australia's winning streak!
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Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations. It remains the highest-regarded form of the game, although the comparatively new One-day International cricket is now more popular amongst some audiences. The name "Test" is thought to arise from the idea that the matches are a "test of strength" between the sides involved. It seems to have been used first to describe an English team that toured Australia in 1861-62, although these matches are not considered Test matches today.\n\nIf you want to know more about Test Cricket, please visit the following website:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_cricket
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That's a great bat to have.  Some legendary Aussie cricketers in that era.\n\nIn 1974-75 Australia hosted England for the Ashes.\n4th Test team (Syndey)\n\nI Redpath\nR McCosker\nI Chappell (c)\nG Chappell\nR Edwards\nD Walters\nR Marsh\nM Walker\nD Lillee\nA Mallett\nJ Thomson\n\n5th Test (Adelaide) Terry Jenner played\n\n6th Test (Melbourne) Dymock played\n\n\nIn 1975 Australia toured England\n\nMcCosker\nA Turner\nI Chappell (c)\nG Chappell\nR Edwards\nD Walters\nR Marsh\nM Walker\nJ Thomson\nD Lillee\nA Mallett\n\nG Gilmour only other player to play in that series in the 3rd Test.\n\n\nIn 1975-76 West Indies toured Australia\n\nRedpath\nTurner\nI Chappell (c)\nG Chappell\nMcCosker\nMarsh\nGilmour\nJenner\nLillee\nThomson\nMallett\n\nOnly other player to play was Cosier in the 3rd Test in Melbourne.
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The Ashes Cricket Series. Australia and England Ashes cricket teams, compete bi-annually for a trophy known as The Ashes.\n\nHistory:\nIn 1882, a confident English team was beaten on their home turf by the Australian underdogs, who came from an almost unwinnable position to triumph and disgrace their opponents.\n\nA British newspaper, the Sporting Times printed an obituary to cricket which read. \n\nIn Affectionate Remembrance of English Cricket Which Died At The Oval on 29th  August 1882\nDeeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances\nR.I.P\nNB: The body will be cremated, and the  ashes taken to Australia.\n\nSo.... there was the origin of "The Ashes".\n\nThe actual "Ashes" are the remains of either an incinerated stump or bale (no-one is sure which) kept in a velvet bag.\n\nRead more here\nhttp://www.abcofcricket.com/A_Legend_Is_Born/a_legend_is_born.htm\nand\nhttp://www.334notout.com/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes