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The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia’s 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and that “the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia”. The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, before which the English captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to “regain those ashes”. The English media therefore dubbed the tour the quest to regain the Ashes.
After England had won two of the three Tests on the tour, a small urn was presented to Bligh by a group of Melbourne women including Florence Morphy, whom Bligh married within a year. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of a wooden bail, and were humorously described as “the ashes of Australian cricket”. It is not clear whether that “tiny silver urn” is the same as the small terracotta urn given to the MCC by Bligh’s widow after his death in 1927.
The urn has never been the official trophy of the Ashes series, having been a personal gift to Bligh.
However, replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series. Since the 1998–99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn called the Ashes Trophy has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series. Irrespective of which side holds the tournament, the original urn remains in the MCC Museum at Lord’s; it has, however, been taken to Australia to be put on touring display on two occasions: as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations in 1988 and to accompany the Ashes series in 2006–07.
An Ashes series traditionally consists of five Tests, hosted in turn by England and Australia at least once every two years. The Ashes are regarded as being held by the team that most recently won the series. If the series is drawn, the team that currently holds the Ashes retains the trophy.
There have been 72 Ashes series: Australia have won 34, England have won 32, and six series have been drawn.
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
- To participate in the challenge kindly drop your name along with your Highest Streak, the Team you want to choose and the player you want to be.
- You can choose your player from either the 2023 Squad or 2005 Squad.
- You can choose either England or Australia. No other team is allowed.
- Each team will have 5 Batsmen, 5 Bowlers and 1 All-rounder.
- Players will be allocated on a first come- first serve basis.
- The Captain will be decided by mutual agreement of the Team members.
ROLES
BATSMAN
- Batsmen will be responsible for scoring and setting up the target.
- The batting order will be revealed by the Captain in the beginning.
- Six batsmen will bat on one day against six bowlers of the opposition. Each batsman will face a different bowler as decided by the captain of the bowling team.
- Whatever points they earn will be counted into the team total.
- Once a batsman relapses automatically the batsman from the lower order comes to bat and then he contributes to the total, whether he knows it or not. So the batting team must keep checking whether one of their batsmen has got out or not.
- Run Award System is as follows-
Reading: = 5 runs per hour
Work = 5 runs per hour
Workout = 5 runs (Counted only once per day)
Check-in = 5 runs (Counted only once per day)
Cold Shower = 5 runs (Counted only once per day)
Meditation = 5 runs (Counted only once per day)
RELAPSE = OUT
BOWLER
- He is responsible for restricting the total of the opposition and taking wickets.
- Six bowlers bowl to six batsmen in one day. Which bowler will bowl to which batsman, will be decided by the Captain of the bowling team.
- If a bowler sees that a Batsman has Relapsed he will gain the wicket by making an appeal to the Umpire.
- If the Bowler doesn’t make an appeal, he will not be awarded the wicket and the Batsman will be considered Run-Out.
- A Bowler’s total points at the end of the day will be subtracted from the Batsman that he is bowling to, and if he surpasses the score made by the batsman then the Batsman will be declared OUT and he will gain the wicket.
- Dot Ball Counter (Run Deduction System) will be done as follows-
Reading: = 5 Dot balls per hour
Work = 5 Dot balls per hour
Workout = 5 Dot balls (Counted only once per day)
Check-in = 5 Dot balls (Counted only once per day)
Cold Shower = 5 Dot balls (Counted only once per day)
Meditation = 5 Dot balls (Counted only once per day)
RELAPSE = 30 runs to the Batting team per relapse, as EXTRAS
FIELDER
- He is the player who assists the Bowler in taking wickets by stopping runs.
- In the beginning of a match, one fielder will be attached to one bowler and they will bowl to two batsmen.
- One Batsman will compete with the bowler and the other against the fielder. If the bowler is successful, the wicket goes to the bowler and if the fielder is successful then the fielder gets awarded a catch and the wicket goes to the bowler.
- Run Restriction System will be as follows-
Reading: = 5 Runs per hour
Work = 5 Runs per hour
Workout = 5 Runs (Counted only once per day)
Check-in = 5 Runs (Counted only once per day)
Cold Shower = 5 Runs (Counted only once per day)
Meditation = 5 Runs (Counted only once per day)
RELAPSE = 30 runs to the Batting team per relapse, as OVERTHROWS
ALL-ROUNDER
- He is the 6th Bowler when the Bowling team begins to bowl and the 6th Batsman when the Batting team gets down to bat.
- While batting his score is calculated according to the Run Award System and in bowling his score is calculated according to the Dot Ball Counter.
RULES
- There will be 5 Test Matches played between the Two teams.
- All matches will last 5 days.
- The batting team will bat until it is all-out or it declares and invites the bowling team to bat.
- Only those who are batting can add runs to the team’s total.
- Only those who are bowling can take wickets.
- However, at the end of the day, the captain can change the bowlers or reshuffle them so that different bowlers now bowl to different batsmen.
- Wickets taken by bowlers through scoring higher than Batsmen will be declared at the end of the day and the Captain must send new batsmen to the crease at the end of the day in place of those who have lost their wicket.
