The Ashes: June 2009

Monday 29 June 2009

The Ashes 2009 Game is going to be launched soon by Codemaster

Here's a lot of Ashes Cricket 2009 screenshots, to agree with news that English batsman Kevin Pietersen will be the "face" of the game.Pietersen unite Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne and Sir Ian Botham in Ashes Cricket 2009's player line-up."I am delighted to be involved with the official game of the Ashes," said 'KP' (like the peanuts). "The game looks unbelievable and I'm sure both England and Australia fans are going to delight the opportunity to take part in a virtual Ashes series. Representing your country in the Ashes is a huge honour and I can't wait for it to start."Codies promises to "build on the heritage" of its classic Brian Lara series with "great batting, bowling and fielding gameplay and authenticity".It's out for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and PC in August.

Monday 22 June 2009

ENGLAND ASHES TRAINING SQUAD

AJ Strauss
AN Cook
RS Bopara
KP Pietersen
PD Collingwood
†MJ Prior
A Flintoff
SCJ Broad
GP Swann
JM Anderson
G Onions
RJ Sidebottom
IR Bell
AU Rashid
MS Panesar
JS Foster.

England vs Australia Ashes 2009: Australian Squad

England vs Australia Ashes 2009: Australian Squad
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The Ashes 2009 Team Playeser for Australia

Ricky Ponting
Stuart Clark
Nathan Hauritz
Phillip Hughes
Mitchell Johnson
Brett Lee
Graham Manou
Peter Siddle
Michael Clarke (vc)
Brad Haddin (wk)
Ben Hilfenhaus
Michael Hussey
Simon

Wednesday 17 June 2009

Ashes Betting 2009

Unnecessary to say, the Ashes will be one of the most keenly followed sporting events in the 2009 sporting calendar, betting on the various result therefore will be huge as it was in the last three Ashes test series. There will be a wide selection of Ashes betting markets including markets on the top runs scorer for each team and overall along with the top bowler market. What has become very well-liked in cricket betting in recent years is Ashes in-play betting as the game lasts for 4 to 5 days and people like to bet as the game progresses. Cricket followers will have a great choice of Ashes free Bets from the leading online bookmakers and these are available exclusively here.

The Ashes 2009

The Ashes is one of the most keenly awaited and violently competitions in any sport let alone cricket. The England Cricket team and Australia have been fighting out on the cricket field since 1877 and the Ashes history is forceful, lasting and most of all exciting.

This latest series comes in the wake of a series whitewash for England in Australia in the 2006-7 series. Australia soundly beat England 5-0 completing only the fifth ever series whitewash. It was a terrible low ebb for England, who had gone to Australia full of confidence after their Ashes victory in England in 2005 Ashes series. See also 2005 Ashes series and the Ashes 2002/3 series

Today it can said with fairness that Australia are not quite the team they were 3 years ago. The series defeat in 2008 against India tinted that they have their fair share of problems in attack and have struggled after the retirements of Ashes legends, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and wicket keeper, Adam Gilchrist. England therefore come into the game high on confidence, with a new captain in Andrew Strauss and with the full knowledge that they can match Australia in all aspects.

The Australian captain, Ricky Ponting and his Australian team that was named on May 20th, will arrive in England in June 2009. They will be here for three months and will play five Tests, five One Day internationals and one Twenty/20 fixture. They will also play several county teams. There will be 18 players in their squad. During the series the England players will spend the time together, foregoing any County commitments. The first Ashes test, for the first time will be played in Cardiff, with second test at Lords, the third Ashes test will be at Edgebaston, the fourth test at Headingley and the fifth and final test at the Oval.

Ashes Tickets Touts

There are a lot of tickets agents in the market who sell Ashes cricket tickets but not all of them are successful to provide tickets to their customers. Among them only few are successful to provide 100% guaranteed, safe and secure Ashes Tickets to their customers. A list of those ticket agents are as under:-

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Ashes Tickets are available on The Online Ticket Shop

For cricket lovers, the Ashes are probably the most thrilling encounter of the two rivalry nations, Australia and England. Since 1882, the Ashes are one of the most historic Test matches ever played. So, The fans of cricket would be aware of the next date of next Ashes Cup 2009, yes Ashes is not so far, The first test is going to take place on 8th July 2008. Buy safe, secure and 100% guaranteed Ashes Cup Npower Series 2009 Tickets on The Online Ticket Shop.

The dates of Ashes Matches are as follows

The Ashes Cricket Game

When I was supplying some amusing games to put onto The Ashes Blog, I clearly usual to be putting a cricket game on – but you’ve got to try before you, erm, embed, so visibly I had a crack at playing this Ashes Cricket game first.

A few hours later I emerged from my angry stupor and managed to score a few runs: this cricket thing is addictive.

Its actually fairly difficult to time the ball: difficulty being a shortage in free online games ordinarily. Cricket is also, for an Englishman, a difficult game to master during the three weeks when the weather is fine enough to play it – games like this can only help us hone our skills, though the range of strokes being relatively limited on this Ashes Cricket game might explain why our batting is so terrible when playing the game for real.

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The Ashes outside the world of Cricket

The fame and status of the cricket series has led to many other events taking the name for England against Australia challenge. The best-known and longest-running of these actions is the rugby league contest between Great Britain and Australia. The competition first started in 1908, the name being optional by the touring Australians. Another example is in the British television show Gladiators, where two series were based around the Australia–England competition.

The urn is also featured in the science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything, the third "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" book by Douglas Adams. The urn is stolen by alien robots, as it is part of the key needed to unlock the "Wikkit Gate" and release the imprisoned world of "Krikkit".

In the cinema, the Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, launched in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan. It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series; the film contains cameo emergence from famous contemporary Ashes cricketers as well as Jim Laker and Denis Compton.

The Ashes Match venues

The series alternate between England and Australia, and within each country each of the (generally) five matches is supposed to be at a different cricket ground.

In Australia, the grounds presently used are "The Gabba" in Brisbane (first staged an England-Australia Test in the 1932–33 season), Adelaide Oval (1884–85), The WACA, Perth (1970–71) the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) (1876–77) and the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) (1881–82). One Test was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928–29. Conventionally, Melbourne hosts the Boxing Day Test and Sydney hosts the New Year Test, which is the first Test of every year. Cricket Australia has planned that the 2010–11 series contains six Tests, with the extra game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart. The England Cricket Board is yet to agree to this.

In England the grounds used are The Oval (since 1880), Old Trafford (1884), Lord's (1884), Trent Bridge (1899), Headingley (1899) and Edgbaston (1902). One Test was held at Bramall Lane, Sheffield in 1902. Sophia Gardens in Cardiff, Wales is listed to hold the first (and its first) Test in the 2009 Ashes series.

The Ashes Today

The Ashes is one of the most severely contest war in cricket.

The stoppage of England to get back to the Ashes for 16 years from 1989, joined with the global dominance of the Australian team, had boring the lustre of the series in recent years throughout most of the cricketing world, although it has remained the most popular cricketing contest for Australians. However, the close results in the 2005 Ashes series, and the overall high quality and competitiveness of the cricket greatly boosted the popularity of the sport in Britain and significantly improved the profile of the Ashes around the world. It remains to be seen whether the irregular results of the 2006-07 Ashes series will have a negative crash on this newly obtain fame outside of Australia.

Ashes Summary of results and statistics

Chart of the matches won between the two sides.

A team must succeed a series to add the right to grasp the Ashes. A haggard series results in the previous holders retaining the Ashes. To date, a total of 64 Ashes series have been played, with Australia winning 31 and England 28. The exceptional five series were drawn, with Australia retaining the Ashes four times (1938, 1962–63, 1965–66, 1968) and England retains it once (1972). The win-loss ratio in Ashes Tests(up to and including the 2006/07 series) stands at 121 wins for Australia to 95 wins for England, with 84 draws.

Ashes series have usually been played over five Test matches, although there have been four match series (1938; 1975) and six match series (1970–71; 1974–75; 1978–79; 1981; 1985; 1989; 1993 and 1997). Australians have made 264 centuries in Ashes Tests, twenty-three of them over 200, while Englishmen have scored 212 centuries, of which ten have been scores over 200. On 41 occasions, person Australians have taken ten wickets in a match. Englishmen have performed that feat 38 times.

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Ashes - The Test Series

The Ashes is a Test cricket series, played between England and Australia. It is one of international cricket's most celebrated rivals and dates back to 1882. It is currently played biennially, alternately in England and Australia. However, 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" now comprises five Test matches, 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 satirical obituary published in an English newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after the 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 then dubbed the next English tour to Australia (1882–83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.

During that tour in Australia, a small terracotta urn was presented as a gift to the England captain Ivo 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 in fact those of King Cole, the cricketer who toured England in 1868. The Dowager Countess of Darnley, meanwhile, claimed recently that her mother-in-law (and Bligh's wife), Florence Morphy, said that they were the remains of a lady's veil.

The urn is erroneously believed, by some, to be the trophy of the Ashes series but it has never been formally adopted as such and Ivo Bligh always considered it to be a personal gift. Replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series, but the actual urn has never been presented or displayed as a trophy in this way. Whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum at Lord's since being presented to the MCC by Ivo Bligh's widow upon his death.

Since the 1998–99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been showed to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.

Australia presently holds The Ashes, after beating England 5–0 to regain them in 2006–07. The next Ashes series will be held in England in 2009. npower presently sponsor the Ashes series played in England.

Monday 29 June 2009

The Ashes 2009 Game is going to be launched soon by Codemaster

Monday 22 June 2009

ENGLAND ASHES TRAINING SQUAD

England vs Australia Ashes 2009: Australian Squad

The Ashes 2009 Team Playeser for Australia

Wednesday 17 June 2009

Ashes Betting 2009

The Ashes 2009

Ashes Tickets Touts

Ashes Tickets are on sale now

The Ashes Cricket Game

The Ashes Videos

The Ashes outside the world of Cricket

The Ashes Match venues

The Ashes Today

Ashes Summary of results and statistics

Ashes Cup - Gallery

Ashes - The Test Series

The Ashes Links

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