Living Memories January 2018 - Cricket - West v East The cricket competition between Australia and England for 'The Ashes' is often spoken of as 'friendly rivalry' but players and spectators on both sides are well aware that it is absolutely 'fair dinkum' and that neither side intends to take any prisoners, as they say. A similar arrangement seems to have existed between the Kinglake district cricket teams, East and West, in the early days of competition and it came to a head