2010-11 Ashes series
| 2010–11 Ashes series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Part of English cricket team in Australia in 2010–11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Vodafone Ashes Series 2010–11 logo
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| Date | 25 November 2010 – 7 January 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Australia Attendance: 764,094 (33,221 per day) |
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| Result | England won the five-Test series 3–1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Player of the series | Alastair Cook (Eng) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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 England
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| Captains | |||
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Ricky Ponting (1st–4th Test) Michael Clarke (5th Test) |
Andrew Strauss | ||
| Most runs | |||
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Mike Hussey (570) Shane Watson (435) Brad Haddin (360) |
Alastair Cook (766) Jonathan Trott (445) Kevin Pietersen (360) |
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| Most wickets | |||
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Mitchell Johnson (15) Peter Siddle (14) Ryan Harris (11) |
James Anderson (24) Chris Tremlett (17) Graeme Swann (15) |
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The 2010–11 Ashes series (known as the Vodafone Ashes Series for sponsorship reasons) was played in Australia as part of the England cricket team's tour of Australia during the 2010–11 cricket season. Five Tests were played from 25 November 2010 to 7 January 2011. England won the series 3–1 and retained the Ashes, having won the previous series in 2009 by two Tests to one.
Prior to the start of the 2010–11 Ashes series, Australia had won 31 series to England's 29. The remaining five were draws. England won the most recent series in 2009 by two Tests to one, but Australia had whitewashed the last one held on home soil (the 2006–07 series), winning 5–0. The last time England won the Ashes on Australian soil was in 1986–87.
Australia and England met in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 final on 16 May. England won by seven wickets with three overs to spare. The two sides also played each other in England in June and July 2010 in a five-match ODI series as a prelude to the upcoming summer. England won the first three ODIs to claim the series, but the Australians won the last two.
The Australians remained in England to face Pakistan, losing both Twenty20 Internationals and drawing a two-Test series 1–1. England, meanwhile, beat Bangladesh 2–1 in a three-match ODI series and beat Pakistan in a controversial series – 3–1 in a four-match Test series, 2–0 in two T20Is and 3–2 in a five-match ODI series.
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