What ashes if any are in the urn and why?
2006-11-23 16:48:10 · 4 answers · asked by bothalezi 3 in Sports ➔ Cricket
The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. It is the oldest and most celebrated rivalry of International cricket dating Back to 1882.
The series is named after a satirical obtiuary published in the Sporting Times in 1882 following the match at the Oval, in which Australia beat England for the first time. The obtiuary stated that English Cricket had Died and the body will be creamated and the ashes taken to Australia.
The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia in 1882-83 as the quest to regain the Ashes.
A small terracotta urn was presented to the England Captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women at some point during the 1882-83 tour.
There is lot of speculation regarding the contents of the Ashes. One version says that the urn contains the ashes of a bail used in the third match. Another speculation is that the urn contains ashes of an item of cricket equipment possibly a bail, ball or a stump.
However, in 1998 Lord Darnley’s 82 year old dauthter-in-
Law said that they were the remains of her mother-in-law’s veil and not a bail casting A further layer of doubt in the matter.
2006-11-23 22:33:37 · answer #1 · answered by vakayil k 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ashes in the urn are supposedly the ashes of the stumps from the first cricket match in which Australia beat England. According to my partner who is an expert in all things cricket, this is just a myth, but it's the symbolism of the competitiveness between England, the traditional home of cricket, and the Aussies, who are the prodigious newcomers (in relative terms of course!) which makes the Ashes so important.
2006-11-24 03:12:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are the ashes of the bailes from the first test match that england lost. it happened to be v aussies, and cus england invented cricket, they said it was the death of english cricket. they burnt the bailes and put em in the urn, and presented it to e the aussy the next time they were in australia. There was an obituary in the times as well commemorating the death of english cricket
2006-11-23 16:52:18 · answer #3 · answered by Tempo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would bring the people you usually play with. The mission is no different from the others unless you plan on stealing the ashes, if so then bring only people who wouldnt be offended by it (like Wynn and Leliana) because they will turn on you and you have to kill them.
2016-05-22 21:39:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋