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Five Extraordinary First Balls In Ashes History
England‘s Rory Burns has an undesirable place within the report books after changing into solely the second batsman to be out to the first ball of an Ashes collection.
Let's have a look at 5 memorable first balls within the Ashes and their effect on the collection:
1) Until this week the one man to be dismissed by the first ball of an Ashes collection was Derbyshire’s Stan Worthington, caught by wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield off the bowling of Ernie McCormick, additionally in Brisbane, to open the 1936/37 Ashes.
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