I was born during the Adelaide Test match when Australia, under Richie Benaud, regained the Ashes. From four days old until my first week of high school, shortly after my twelfth birthday, Australia held the Ashes (and John Snow still hasn't been forgiven). We got them back for a couple of brief periods: January 1975 to August 1977, and January 1983 to August 1985.
Australia picked up the Ashes once more on August 1, 1989. It's sixteen years and eleven days later, and barring an English choke of Greg Normanesque proportions, they're on their way back to England.
Meanwhile, I've just been mentioned on the all-new Ich Bien Eine Berliner Guardian's all-old OBO for The Second Time Ever. Scroll down to Over 67. (The First Time Ever was Boxing Day, 2002 - I'm in the last three paragraphs at the bottom of the page.)
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