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The Ashes

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Malcolm Knox Journalist, author and columnist November 14, 2025 — 7.33pm

The Ashes are “an ever-recurring wonder that stirs the blood of each succeeding generation as they see it come to light anew”⁣.

It was 1948 when Vivian Jenkins wrote those words in Wisden to celebrate the end of wartime as much as the arrival of Don Bradman’s Australians.

The Ashes might not be as central to the world of cricket now – the Border-Gavaskar and the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophies, contested by India, the biggest of today’s big three, can claim greater heft – but there’s still something in it.

There are competing ornaments in gold, silver, and plastic, dollars and rupees and riyals, men’s and women’s, white ball and pink ball and red ball, night and day, short,

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