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Hello and welcome to the Test Match Special Daily Ashes Quiz.

I am Andy Zaltzman, TMS stats keeper and purveyor of 110% partially verifiable cricketing probable factiviveness.

For the rest of the week, you can get your daily Ashes-related stats poser

exclusively on BBC Sounds, a question not to test your trivial knowledge,

but to see how close you can get to guessing a number that I've dug up for you.

We'll start with Friday's answer.

This question came after England's top four made a not

particularly grand total of eight runs in the first innings of the MCG victory, eight runs that

proved crucial in the end, sort of. The question was what was the average runs by England's

top four per match in the first innings of tests in Australia from 1990 up to and including this year's Adelaide test

and the answer was 147 which is definitely more than 8 so for our scoring system if you're within

five either way you fit a six if you're within 15 either way four 25 either way you can have to 40 either way you've nudged a single into a big gap on the leg side but if you're within 15 either way, 4, 25 either way, you can have 2, 40 either way.

You've nudged a single into a big gap on the leg side.

But if you're 70 or more out, so 77 and under or 217 and over, you have lost a wicket.

I do hope you've been keeping score over the last month and a bit.

Today's question follows on neatly.

England won at the MCG despite being bowled out for 110.

That's the lowest first inning score in an England win in Australia since the 19th century.

The question for you today is, in England's 43 previous match wins in Australia

from the start of the 20th century up to their most recent

victory before this one, in other words the fifth test in 2010-11, what was England's average

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