2009 Ashes series
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The 2009 Ashes series was that year's edition of the long-standing and storied cricket rivalry between England and Australia, and was part of the Australian cricket tour of England in 2009. Starting on 8 July 2009, England and Australia played five Tests, with England winning the series 2–1. England thus reclaimed The Ashes from Australia, who had won the previous series in 2006–07. Andrew Strauss became just the second England captain in 20 years, alongside Michael Vaughan in 2005, to win the Ashes.
Katherine Jenkins sings the Welsh national anthem before the start of the 2009 Ashes
Paul Collingwood batting in the first Test at Cardiff
Andrew Flintoff takes his fifth wicket of the match, knocking out Peter Siddle's middle stump to help England beat Australia in the Second Test.
England cricket team
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The England men's cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket. Since 1997, it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club since 1903. England, as a founding nation, is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status. Until the 1990s, Scottish and Irish players also played for England as those countries were not yet ICC members in their own right. England are the current ICC Men's T20 World Cup champions.
The All-England Eleven in 1846
The 1859 English team in North America
The first England team to tour southern Australia in 1861–62
The death notice printed on The Sporting Times newspaper which first named the Ashes