The England and Wales cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales. Until 1992 it also represented Scotland. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from 1903 until the end of 1996.
England and Australia were the first teams to be granted Test status on 15 March 1877 and they gained full membership to the International Cricket Council (ICC) on 15 June 1909. England and Australia also took part in the first One Day International (ODI) on 5 January 1971 and England's first international Twenty20 match was played on 13 June 2005 against Australia.
As of 30 May 2011, England has won 324 of the 913 Test matches played (drawing in 328) England's One Day International record includes finishing as runners-up in three Cricket World Cups (1979, 1987 and 1992), and again as runners up in the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004.
The England team are the current ICC World Twenty20 champions having won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 and are the current holders of the Ashes, which is the Test match series contest between England and Australia and which has been played since the 1882–83 Australian season. The team is currently in fifth place in the ICC ODI Championship and, as of August 2011, are the top ranked test side in the world.
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