The Ashes: Sport & Action (Unabridged) Audio Book

Learn about the history of cricket's greatest contest, The Ashes, with iMinds insightful audio-knowledge series.

The Ashes is a test-cricket series played between England and Australia. Throughout its long history, winning the Ashes has been seen as a matter of national pride for the two sporting rivals. Today, there is an Ashes series in both men's cricket and women's cricket. But the men's Ashes series is more widely known.

Any knowledge of the Ashes requires knowledge about the sport of cricket. Cricket is played between two teams of eleven players. They play on a field that has a pitch in the middle. On the pitch there are two wickets which are 22 yards apart. One team bats and has a team member standing in front of each wicket. The other team bowls and fields. The batter's aim is to score as many runs as possible. The player does this by hitting the ball far enough to be able to run from one wicket to the other as many times as possible before the other team retrieves the ball.

The goal of the second team is to get the batter dismissed. There are many ways a batter can be dismissed, with the two most common ways being bowled out and being caught out. A batter is bowled out if the bowler hits their wicket with the ball and dislodges a bail that's sitting on top. A batter is caught out if someone fielding catches the ball the batter has hit before it bounces.

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