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Sunday, 21 November 2010

A ten-wicket win over Australia A completes the perfect preparation for England! Meanwhile, the Aussies seem to be in disarray - why have they dropped Hauritz?! Who is Xavier Doherty?!

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England's Record Breaking Ashes Series

24 - the number of years ago England last won an Ashes series down under.
3 - Ashes series Ponting has lost. Making him the first Australian skipper in 120 years to suffer that humiliation.
644 - all out in Sydney, was England's highest ever Test score in Australia.
9 - the highest number of centuries an England team has ever scored in an Ashes series.
1,058 - the record number of minutes Cook batted without being out.
383 - the number of runs Cook scored without being out, breaking Wally Hammond's long standing record.
517 - England's second innings total at the Gaba was the first time England have scored more than 500 for the loss of just one wicket.
329 - the stand between Cook and Trott in the second innings at the Gaba, was the best of any England pair in Australia and the ninth highest stand in English Test history.
188 - the opening partnership in the second innings at the Gaba was an England record at the ground.
227 - KP's best score. Achieved in the Second Test at the Adelaide Oval.
235 not out - the highest individual Test score at the Gaba and the sixth best Ashes score of all time by an England player. Achieved by Cook.
2,171 - the number of minutes Cook spent at the crease. The longest anyone has ever batted in a five match series.

CricketChicks Favourite Cricket Books (Well, what else would they be)

Ashes Victory: The official story of the greatest ever Test series in the team’s own words by The Professional Cricketers Association
Behind the Shades by Duncan Fletcher
Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age edited by Stephen Wagg
Following On: A year with English Cricket’s golden boys by David Tossell
More Than A Game: The Story of Crickets Early Years by John Major
Netherland by Joseph O’Neil
Start the Car: The World According to Bumble by David Lloyd
The Ultimate Test: The Story of the 2009 Ashes Series by Gideon Haigh
Time to Declare by Michael Vaughan