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Fifth Test, 1948 Ashes series

Index Fifth Test, 1948 Ashes series

The Fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes series, held at The Oval in London, was the final Test in that cricket series between Australia and England. [1]

108 relations: Alec Bedser, Allan Watkins, Arthur Morris, Australia national cricket team, Batting (cricket), Batting average, Bill Edrich, Bill Johnston (cricketer), Bill O'Reilly (cricketer), Bodyline, Bouncer (cricket), Boundary (cricket), Bowled, Bowling (cricket), Brydon Coverdale, Cambridge University Cricket Club, Captain (cricket), Caught, Century (cricket), Cyril Washbrook, Dai Davies (cricketer), Declaration and forfeiture, Denis Compton, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Dick Pollard, Dismissal (cricket), Don Bradman, Don Tallon, Doug Ring, Duck (cricket), Durham County Cricket Club, England cricket team, Eric Hollies, Ernie Toshack, ESPNcricinfo, Extra (cricket), Fast bowling, Finger spin, For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, Fourth Test, 1948 Ashes series, Glamorgan County Cricket Club, Godfrey Evans, Googly, H. D. G. Leveson Gower, Harold Larwood, HarperCollins, Headingley Stadium, Herbert Baldwin (cricketer), History of English amateur cricket, Ian Johnson (cricketer), ..., Jack Crapp, Jack Fingleton, Jack Young (cricketer), Jim Laker, Jim Maxwell (commentator), John Arlott, John Dewes, Keith Miller, Ken Cranston, Kent County Cricket Club, Lancashire County Cricket Club, Left-arm orthodox spin, Leg before wicket, Leg cutter, Leg side, Leg spin, Len Hutton, Lindsay Hassett, Middlesex County Cricket Club, Neil Harvey, Norman Yardley, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Not out, Off spin, Over (cricket), Partnership (cricket), Random House, Ray Lindwall, Reg Simpson, Ron Saggers, Run (cricket), Run out, Sam Loxton, Scotland national cricket team, Sid Barnes, Somerset County Cricket Club, South of England cricket team, Spin bowling, State Library of South Australia, Stump (cricket), Stumped, Surrey County Cricket Club, Sussex County Cricket Club, Swing bowling, Test cricket, The Oval, Third Test, 1948 Ashes series, Topspinner, Victory Tests, W. G. Grace, Wales, Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Wicket, Wicket-keeper, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, World War II, Yorker, 1948 Ashes series. Expand index (58 more) »

Alec Bedser

Sir Alec Victor Bedser CBE (4 July 1918 – 4 April 2010) was a professional English cricketer, primarily a medium-fast bowler.

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Allan Watkins

Allan Watkins (21 April 1922 – 3 August 2011), born Albert John Watkins, was a Welsh cricketer, who played for England in fifteen Tests from 1948 to 1952.

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Arthur Morris

Arthur Robert Morris MBE (19 January 1922 – 22 August 2015) was an Australian cricketer who played 46 Test matches between 1946 and 1955.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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Batting (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket.

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Batting average

Batting average is a statistic in cricket, baseball, and softball that measures the performance of batsmen in cricket and batters in baseball and softball.

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Bill Edrich

William John Edrich DFC (26 March 1916 – 24 April 1986) was a first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Norfolk and England.

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Bill Johnston (cricketer)

William Arras Johnston (26 February 1922 – 25 May 2007) was an Australian cricketer who played in forty Test matches from 1947 to 1955.

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Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)

William Joseph O'Reilly (20 December 19056 October 1992), often known as Tiger O'Reilly, was an Australian cricketer, rated as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game.

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Bodyline

Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman.

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Bouncer (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a bouncer (or bumper) is a type of delivery, usually bowled by a fast bowler.

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Boundary (cricket)

In cricket a boundary is the edge or boundary of the playing field, or a scoring shot where the ball is hit to or beyond that point.

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Bowled

Bowled is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket.

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Bowling (cricket)

Bowling, in cricket, is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman.

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Brydon Coverdale

Brydon Coverdale (born 14 December 1982) is an Australian quiz personality best known for being one of the "Chasers" on The Chase Australia, where he is nicknamed "The Shark".

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Cambridge University Cricket Club

Cambridge University Cricket Club, first recorded in 1817, is the representative cricket club for students of the University of Cambridge.

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Captain (cricket)

The captain of a cricket team, often referred to as the skipper, is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of the other players.

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Caught

Caught is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket.

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Century (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings by a batsman.

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Cyril Washbrook

Cyril Washbrook CBE (6 December 1914 – 27 April 1999) was an English cricketer, who played for Lancashire and England.

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Dai Davies (cricketer)

David "Dai" Davies (26 August 1896 – 16 July 1976) was a first-class cricketer and Test match umpire.

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Declaration and forfeiture

In the sport of cricket, a declaration occurs when a captain declares his team's innings closed and a forfeiture occurs when a captain chooses to forfeit an innings.

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Denis Compton

Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE (23 May 1918 – 23 April 1997) was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole cricket career with Middlesex.

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Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Dick Pollard

Richard Pollard (19 June 1912 – 16 December 1985) was an English cricketer born in Westhoughton, Lancashire, who played in four Tests between 1946 and 1948.

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Dismissal (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a dismissal occurs when the batsman is out (also known as the fielding side taking a wicket and/or the batting side losing a wicket).

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Don Bradman

Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.

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Don Tallon

Donald "Don" Tallon (17 February 1916 – 7 September 1984) was an Australian cricketer who played 21 Test matches as a wicket-keeper between 1946 and 1953.

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Doug Ring

Douglas Thomas Ring (14 October 1918 – 23 June 2003) was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia in 13 Tests from 1948 to 1953.

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Duck (cricket)

In cricket, a duck is a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.

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Durham County Cricket Club

Durham County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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Eric Hollies

William Eric Hollies (5 June 1912 – 16 April 1981) was an English cricketer, who is mainly remembered for taking the wicket of Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman's final Test match innings, in which he needed only four runs for a Test average of 100.

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Ernie Toshack

Ernest Raymond Herbert Toshack (8 December 1914 – 11 May 2003) was an Australian cricketer who played in 12 Tests from 1946 to 1948.

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ESPNcricinfo

ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket.

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Extra (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, an extra (sometimes called a sundry) is a run scored by a means other than a batsman hitting the ball.

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Fast bowling

Fast bowling is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling.

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Finger spin

Finger spin (also known as off spin) is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket.

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For He's a Jolly Good Fellow

"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is a popular song that is sung to congratulate a person on a significant event, such as a promotion, a birthday, a wedding (or playing a major part in a wedding), a wedding anniversary, the birth of a child, or the winning of a championship sporting event.

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Fourth Test, 1948 Ashes series

The Fourth Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England.

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Glamorgan County Cricket Club

Glamorgan County Cricket Club (Criced Morgannwg) is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Godfrey Evans

Thomas Godfrey Evans (18 August 1920 – 3 May 1999) was an English cricketer who played for Kent and England.

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Googly

In cricket, a googly is a type of deceptive delivery bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler.

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H. D. G. Leveson Gower

Sir Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson Gower (8 May 1873 – 1 February 1954) was an English cricketer from the Leveson-Gower family.

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Harold Larwood

Harold Larwood (14 November 1904 – 22 July 1995) was a professional cricketer for Nottinghamshire and England between 1924 and 1938.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Headingley Stadium

Headingley Stadium in Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is the home of Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Leeds Rhinos rugby league and Yorkshire Carnegie rugby union clubs.

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Herbert Baldwin (cricketer)

Herbert George Baldwin (1893–1969) was a first-class cricketer and Test match umpire.

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History of English amateur cricket

Cricket, and hence English amateur cricket, probably began in England during the medieval period but the earliest known reference concerns the game being played c.1550 by children on a plot of land at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Surrey.

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Ian Johnson (cricketer)

Ian William Geddes Johnson, (8 December 1917 – 9 October 1998) was an Australian cricketer who played 45 Test matches as a slow off-break bowler between 1946 and 1956.

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Jack Crapp

John "Jack" Frederick Crapp (14 October 1912 – 13 February 1981) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire between 1936 and 1956, and played for England on tour in the winter of 1948–49.

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Jack Fingleton

John "Jack" Henry Webb Fingleton, OBE (28 April 190822 November 1981) was an Australian cricketer who was trained as a journalist and became a political and cricket commentator after the end of his playing career.

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Jack Young (cricketer)

John Albert "Jack" Young (14 October 1912 – 5 February 1993) was an English cricketer, who played for Middlesex and England.

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Jim Laker

James Charles Laker (9 February 1922 – 23 April 1986) was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (Surrey) from 1946 to 1959 and represented England in 46 test matches.

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Jim Maxwell (commentator)

James Edward Maxwell AM (born 28 July 1950) is a sports commentator with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation best known for covering cricket.

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John Arlott

Leslie Thomas John Arlott, OBE (25 February 1914 – 14 December 1991) was an English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special.

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John Dewes

John Gordon Dewes (11 October 1926 – 12 May 2015) was an English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University and Middlesex, and was chosen for five Tests between 1948 and 1950.

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Keith Miller

Keith Ross Miller, (28 November 1919 – 11 October 2004) was an Australian test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II.

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Ken Cranston

Kenneth "Ken" Cranston (20 October 1917 – 8 January 2007) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and eight times for England, in 1947 and 1948.

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Kent County Cricket Club

Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire Cricket Club, one of eighteen first-class county clubs in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales, represents the historic county of Lancashire.

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Left-arm orthodox spin

Left-arm orthodox spin also known as Slow Left Arm Orthodox spin bowling is a type of Left Arm Finger Off spin bowling in the sport of cricket.

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Leg before wicket

Leg before wicket (lbw) is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed in the sport of cricket.

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Leg cutter

A leg cutter is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket.

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Leg side

The leg side, or on side, is defined to be a particular half of the field used to play the sport of cricket.

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Leg spin

Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in the sport of cricket.

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Len Hutton

Sir Leonard Hutton (23 June 1916 – 6 September 1990) was an English cricketer who played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire from 1934 to 1955 and for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955.

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Lindsay Hassett

Arthur Lindsay Hassett MBE (28 August 1913 – 16 June 1993) was a cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia.

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Middlesex County Cricket Club

Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Neil Harvey

Robert Neil Harvey (born 8 October 1928) is an Australian former cricketer who represented the Australian cricket team between 1948 and 1963, playing in 79 Test matches.

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Norman Yardley

Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley (19 March 1915 – 3 October 1989) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England, as a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler.

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Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Not out

In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings.

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Off spin

Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in the sport of cricket.

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Over (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, an over consists of six consecutive balls bowled by a single bowler from one end of a cricket pitch to the batsman at the other end.

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Partnership (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, two batsmen always bat in partnership, although only one is on strike at any time.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Ray Lindwall

Raymond Russell Lindwall MBE (3 October 1921 – 23 June 1996) was a cricketer who represented Australia in 61 Tests from 1946 to 1960.

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Reg Simpson

Reginald Thomas Simpson (27 February 1920 – 22 November 2013) was an English cricketer, who played in 27 Tests from 1948 to 1955.

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Ron Saggers

Ronald Arthur Saggers (15 May 1917 – 17 March 1987) was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales.

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Run (cricket)

In cricket, a run is running the length of the pitch, and is a basic means of scoring, as the team with the most runs wins.

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Run out

Run out is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket governed by Law 38 of the Laws of cricket.

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Sam Loxton

Samuel John Everett "Sam" Loxton, OBE (29 March 19213 December 2011) was an Australian cricketer, footballer and politician.

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Scotland national cricket team

The Scotland national cricket team play their home matches at The Grange, Edinburgh.

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Sid Barnes

Sidney George Barnes (5 June 1916 – 16 December 1973) was an Australian cricketer and cricket writer, who played 13 Test matches between 1938 and 1948.

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Somerset County Cricket Club

Somerset County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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South of England cricket team

The South of England appeared in first-class cricket between 1836 and 1961, most often in the showcase North v. South matches against the North of England although there were also games against touring teams, MCC and others.

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Spin bowling

Spin bowling is a bowling technique in cricket and the bowler is referred to as a spinner.

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State Library of South Australia

The State Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia.

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Stump (cricket)

In cricket, the stumps are the three vertical posts that support the bails and form the wicket.

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Stumped

Stumped is a method of dismissal in cricket.

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Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Sussex County Cricket Club

Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Swing bowling

Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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The Oval

The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.

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Third Test, 1948 Ashes series

The Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England.

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Topspinner

A topspinner is a type of delivery bowled by a cricketer bowling either wrist spin or finger spin.

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Victory Tests

The Victory Tests were a series of cricket matches played in England from 19 May to 22 August 1945, between a combined Australian Services XI and an English national side.

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W. G. Grace

William Gilbert "W.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Warwickshire County Cricket Club

Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Wicket

In the sport of cricket, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch.

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Wicket-keeper

The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and be ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises.

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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (or simply Wisden or colloquially "the Bible of Cricket") is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yorker

In cricket, a yorker is a ball bowled (a delivery) which hits the cricket pitch around the batsman's feet.

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1948 Ashes series

The 1948 Ashes series was that year's edition of the long-standing cricket rivalry between England and Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Test,_1948_Ashes_series

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