What does it say on The Ashes urn? (cricket)?

Question

there what seems like an article glued onto the urn.. what does it say?

Answer 1

Very good question, the term Ashes was first used after England lost to Australia - for the first time on home soil - at The Oval on 29th August 1882. A day later, the Sporting Times carried a mock obituary to English cricket which concluded that “ "In Affectionate Remembrance of ENGLISH CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 29th AUGUST, 1882, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P.
N.B. — The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.”."

A few weeks later, an English team, captained by the Hon Ivo Bligh [later Lord Darnley], set off to tour Australia. The side lost the first of the three scheduled Tests but won the next two, prompting a group of Melbourne ladies (including Miss Florence Rose Morphy - Bligh's future wife) to burn one of the bails used in the Third Test, put it in a small brown urn, and present it to Bligh.
He subsequently took the urn back to England, where it is now owned and displayed (at Lord's) by MCC

On the urn, a POEM is written

The Ashes
"When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;
Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;
The welkin will ring loud,
The great crowd will feel proud,
Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn;
And the rest coming home with the urn."


The poem is about the stars of the England team that won that tour. The names mentioned in the poem are Ivo (Bligh - the captain, and opening batsman), (Charles T) Studds (all-rounder), (Allan G) Steel (batting all-rounder), (Walter W) Read (right arm fast bowler, or occasional slow underarms!), (Edmund FS) Tylecote (the wicket-keeper), (Richard "Dick" G) Barlow (the other opening bat), and (William "Billy") Bates (right arm off-spinner).

Answer 2

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. The contents of the urn are reported to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment possible a bail, ball or a stump.

The urn is not used as a trophy for the Ashes series and whichever side holds

For more details about Ashes Urn, please check the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes#The_Ashes_Urn

Answer 3

Wrong, wrong, wrong. All the above answers are wrong.
It is a poem about the team which went to Australia and recovered "the Ashes" in 1882-83. That tour was coined as a quest to regain The Ashes of English Cricket, which had died at the Oval in August 1882. The team was captained by the honourable Ivo Bligh, and England won 2-1. The poem is about the stars of the England team that won that tour. The names mentioned in the poem are Ivo (Bligh - the captain, and opening batsman), (Charles T) Studds (excellent all-rounder), (Allan G) Steel (batting all-rounder), (Walter W) Read (right arm fast bowler, or occaisional slow underarms!), (Edmund FS) Tylecote (the wicket-keeper), (Richard "Dick" G) Barlow (the other opening bat), and (William "Billy") Bates (right arm off-spinner).
The above quotes about "In affectionate remem..." etc are from Newspaper articles, not the urn itself.
On the urn is the poem, as I mentioned above, and it goes like this:

The Ashes

"When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;
Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;
The welkin will ring loud,
The great crowd will feel proud,
Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn;
And the rest coming home with the urn."

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Answer 4

It says In Affectionate remembrance of English Cricket which died at the oval on 29th August 1882 Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P N.B The body will be cremated and the ashes will be taken to Australia.

Answer 5

Ashes Trophy

Answer 6

The article says "English cricket has died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia"