2006-07 Ashes series
| 2006–07 Ashes series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Part of the English cricket team in Australia in 2006–07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The logo for the 2006–07 Ashes series
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| Date | 23 November 2006 – 5 January 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Australia won the 5-Test series 5–0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Player of the series | Ricky Ponting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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 England
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| Captains | |||
| Ricky Ponting | Andrew Flintoff | ||
| Most runs | |||
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Ricky Ponting (576) Michael Hussey (458) Matthew Hayden (413) |
Kevin Pietersen (490) Paul Collingwood (433) Ian Bell (331) |
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| Most wickets | |||
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Stuart Clark (26) Shane Warne (23) Glenn McGrath (21) |
Matthew Hoggard (13) Andrew Flintoff (11) Monty Panesar (10) |
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The 2006–07 cricket series between Australia and England for the Ashes was played in Australia from 23 November 2006 to 5 January 2007. Australia won the series and regained the Ashes that had been lost to England in the 2005 series. The five Tests of the series were played at Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. In winning, Australia completed a 5–0 "whitewash", the first time this had happened in an Ashes series since 1920–21. The series was also notable for the retirement of four significant Australian players, namely Justin Langer, Damien Martyn, Glenn McGrath, and Shane Warne.
Ricky Ponting was named Player of the Series.
During lunch on the third day of the First Test in Brisbane, The Cricket Show on Channel 9 in Australia revealed that the winner of the Ashes would lift a larger, crystal model of the Ashes urn at the end of the series, rather than a replica of the small Ashes urn.
Ricky Ponting found himself criticised by journalists on his captaincy and performances in the 2005 series during the run-up to the first Test. When questioned in a press conference on this subject, he said "We didn't perform the way we would have liked and probably I didn't score the runs I would have liked to during the Ashes ... It's important for us to move on, to move forward from that; that is me as a player, me as a captain and the rest of the team as well ... We have managed to do that very well, we've actually played better cricket as a result of that."
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