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The Ashes 1888
Tue, October 29 2013
Ashes 1888: Australia lose 18 wickets before lunch at Old Trafford
As many as 18 wickets fell before lunch on August 31, 1888 as England got caught on a 'sticky’ wicket. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at the day when Bobby Peel and treacherous combined to claim the Ashes for England.