The Ashes, now taking place International Cricket. The Ashes, for over 125years. The Ashes is a Test cricketseries played between England and Australia. The Ashes are regarded as beingheld by the team that most recently won the Test series. If the test series isdrawn, the team that currently holds the Ashes retains the trophy. The termoriginated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, TheSporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, theirfirst Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket haddied, and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken toAustralia". The mythical ashesimmediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia,before which the English captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to "regain thoseashes". The English media therefore dubbed the tour the quest to regainthe Ashes. After England had won two of the three Tests on the tour, a smallurn was presented to Bligh by a group of Melbourne women including FlorenceMorphy, 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 Australiancricket". It is not clear whetherthat "tiny silver urn" is the same as the small terracotta urn givento the Melbourne Cricket Club by Bligh's widow after his death in 1927. England continues their tour of Australia and New Zealand, in a run up tothis year's Ashes competition, with a TourMatch which continues today and tomorrow at the Western Australia CricketAssociation Ground, Perth. The Ashesofficially begins on November 23rd at The Gabba in Brisbane, and will continuein Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Adelaide.
Meanwhile back on the subcontinent, New Zealand continues their tour ofIndia, with a T20 International match at the Saurashtra Cricket AssociationStadium, Rajkot (also known as Khandheri Cricket Stadium). New Zealand will need a strong response tosalvage their series. The visitors,formerly number one in T20I need to bulk up their middle order and tightenfielding if they are to avoid losing their first T20I series to India today. Imagine running into a brick wall again andagain and again. It's perhaps T20 cricket's equivalent of dropping three catches,and in addition New Zealand's ground fielding in Delhi featureduncharacteristic fumbles. The cost of such indiscipline was 154 runs, the matchand their No.1 ranking. Kane Williamson is not a captain who would giveexcuses, but deep down this defeat would have stung. The visitors now need astrong response to force the series into the decider in Thiruvananthapuram.Their fate seems not to be completely in their hands, though, India has beenplaying strong. The pitch to be used onSaturday looked completely devoid of grass in the middle of a lush greenoutfield. The track is known to favour batsmen and more runs could be expectedfor the second T20 too. Rajkot, like Delhi and Kanpur, will continue to providethe teams with pleasant, early winter conditions. India's standout phenom, Virat Kohli needs 12runs to surpass Tillakaratne Dilshan's tally of 1889 and become thesecond-highest scorer in T20Is. Brendon McCullum leads the list with 2140 runs. In the USA, in NCAA Football, the Louisiana State University Tigers willmeet the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, in their annual grudge match thisevening in Tuscaloosa. The Tigers havelost the six straight in the series against Bama, but the number 19 ranked teamhas been playing well, and could easily overcome the number 2 ranked CrimsonTide. Meanwhile the state of Oklahoma will be mesmerized on Saturday, with an evening match-up of the University of Oklahoma Sooners, and the Oklahoma State UniversityCowboys. This rivalry is officiallydesignated "Bedlam," whenever the two schools match up. Bothteams have remained high ranked all season, with Oklahoma State currently at11th and Oklahoma currently at 5th. TheCowboys and Sooners meet for the 112th time Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium,amid high rankings and high stakes. ESPN is sending its College GameDay crew,the sixth time GameDay has appeared at Bedlam. The Bedlam tag was first attached to the rivalry for the rowdinessinvolved in the teams' wrestling duals, between teams and fans. Over the years,Bedlam became a thing in all their meetings, with football eventuallyescalating to the main attraction. Oklahomaowns a lopsided edge in the series, 85-19-7, but since the end of the BarrySwitzer era, the Cowboys have elevated their program in the Big 12 andnationally, and grown more competitive with the Sooners, if not quite superior. "It's a rivalry game," said Cowboysquarterback Mason Rudolph. "The fans talk and think about it all year. Andwe do too, so we are excited about it and get another crack at it. It'll befun." "This week, everyonegoes to work wearing orange or red," Gundy said. "It's a fun week andit's always more entertaining when both teams are successful and playing well.I think it's a fun time for everybody in the state." -- Posted By Rex to SR at 11/04/2017 01:04:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
