A trivia question

[spikydavid]

What are the following dates:

• 6 September 1880
• 10 July 1884
• 21 July 1884
• 1 June 1899
• 29 June 1899

Comments

[djonma]

I may be showing how geeky I am here... umm... first day of the Ashes?

[spikydavid]

For that to be true, there would have to have been no ashes series between 1902 and 2003. I'm pretty sure that isn't the case.

Also, though I realise things were different then (1880), starting a series in September? Even the 6th of September.

So, no, not the first day of the Ashes

[djonma]

Well oddly enough... it was 6th Sept in 1880. Which is why I jumped at that as the answer hehe!
I wasn't thinking there were no ashes between 1902 and 2003, just that you'd only chosen to list certain dates, rather than the whole lot :-)

[spikydavid]

Nope, it is the full set of all the things that these are dates of

[dakari_mane]

Um the times england has beaten australia in test matches.

[spikydavid]

England are not good, but we're not that bad :)

No, not the times England has beaten Australia in test matches :) (Again, a 101-year drought???)