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the 3rd test match of the Ashes series being played in Adelaide tonight our time.
The players on both teams have on black armbands.
Add Guardian link, snip
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/dec/16/pat-cummins-bondi-terror-attack-hit-home-tributes-third-ashes-test
Australia captain Pat Cummins has said the tragic events at Bondi beach hit home pretty hard as they unfolded on Sunday night just down the road from his home in the neighbouring Sydney suburb of Bronte.
As the cricket world prepares to pay tribute to the victims of the Bondi beach terror attack when the third Ashes Test gets under way in Adelaide on Wednesday, Cummins and England captain, Ben Stokes, revealed the profound impact the massacre had on them and their teammates
Like most other Aussies and people in the world, I was just horrified watching on, Cummins said. We had just put the kids to bed and flicked on the news as that was coming through. Me and my wife were watching in disbelief.
Its a place thats just around the corner from where we live and we take the kids there all the time. Its hit home pretty hard. We really feel for the Bondi community and the Jewish community in particular.
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(9,382 posts)malaise
(292,884 posts)Test match series - the Ashes are the oldest test series on the planet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes
The Ashes is a Test cricket series played biennially between England and Australia. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and that "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".[1] The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 188283 series played in Australia, before which the English captain the Hon. Ivo Bligh had vowed to "regain those ashes". The English media therefore dubbed the tour the Quest to regain the Ashes.
After England won two of the three Tests on the tour, a small urn was presented to Bligh at Melbourne.[2] The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of a wooden bail.[3] It is not clear whether that "tiny silver urn" is the same as the small terracotta urn given to Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) by Bligh's widow after his death in 1927.
malaise
(292,884 posts)Most Americans dont follow cricket 😀
canetoad
(20,241 posts)Bay 13 at the MCG imitates Merv Hughes.

Lots of English fans in OZ right now.
Anyone but England is my line.
That Marqusee book is one of the best cricket books ever.
Mike left the US (Boston) during the Vietnam War and never returned. He was a Labour Party Socialist.
He loved cricket and wrote a few excellent books about cricket and politics.
malaise
(292,884 posts)20,000😀
Only took 21 years.
😀
malaise
(292,884 posts)Deuxcents
(25,544 posts)malaise
(292,884 posts)the rest of the series
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The world has gone mad and the Ashes attract huge crowds