What are the ashes?

Question

What is actually in the ashes trophy?

Answer 1

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 urn is not used as a trophy for the Ashes series and whichever side holds The Ashes. The urn normally remains at the MCC Museum at Lords because it was bequeathed to the MCC by Ivo Bligh upon his death. Since the 1998-99 Ashes series, a Waterford crystal trophy has been presented to the winners.

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, presented to Bligh by a group of Melbourne women.. 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.


For more information about Ashes, please check the following link:

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

Answer 2

This is the true story:

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in The Sporting Times in 1882 following the match at The Oval, in which Australia beat England in England for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour, to Australia (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 reputed to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. The urn is now used as a trophy for the Ashes series, and whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the MCC Museum at Lord's because it was bequeathed to the MCC by Ivo Bligh upon his death. Since the 1998-99 Ashes series, a Waterford crystal trophy has been presented to the winners.

Answer 3

Many years ago (I'm sure a cricket bore will tell you when!) England did rather badly against an Australian touring team. A newspaper report in rather poetic mode said that the Australian team had gone home taking with them the ashes of English cricket. Shortly afterwards, a group of female cricket supporters ceremonially burned one of the bails from the match and presented the ashes in an urn to the MCC.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

in the 1920s after a game of cricket the cricket stumps were burnt and held as the ashes.

Answer 6

the ashes are completed by england and austrailis
the are kept in a urn as the are the remains of the stumps when austrailia beat england in a series

Answer 7

29 august 1882 there is some doubt as it is either the burnt "ball or burnt"bails"(it is not the stumps) of a match that year . which is regarded as the year english cricket died

Answer 8

The best cricket tournament, better than the World Cup. Lots of history behind it.

Answer 9

The stumps

Answer 10

bit of some old bails