I know the ashes came about over a century ago and it was a building that burnt down or something and the trophy was handed to one of the two teams. I have forgotten exactly how it happened. PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME SOMEONE!!!!!!!!! I LOVE cricket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-11 18:21:45 · 10 answers · asked by Kuschke 2 in Sports ➔ Cricket
"The series is named after a satirical obituary published in an English newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after the match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground 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 then dubbed the next English tour to Australia (1882-83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.
During that tour in Australia, a small terracotta urn was presented as a gift to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women at some point during the 1882-83 tour of Australia. 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 erroneously believed, by some, to be the trophy of the Ashes series but it has never been formally adopted as such and Ivo Bligh always considered it to be a personal gift."
2007-01-11 18:26:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
the ashes are from some bails off the top of some stumps that were burnt put in a tiny trophy/urn type thing and they became the ashes that they play for
2007-01-11 18:25:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Previously asked and answered. The wiki entry is pretty comprehensive, although there is one story that it's the ashes of a veil of one of the ladies who presented the urn to Bligh. The bail story was believed pretty much unanimously until fairly recently.
2007-01-11 21:37:37 · answer #3 · answered by igorolman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1882
2007-01-14 01:10:41 · answer #4 · answered by usman1125 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the ashes of the bails of the first test kept in an urn. they are traditionally kept in England.
2007-01-11 18:26:51 · answer #5 · answered by Boscombe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ashes Cricket Trophy
2017-02-21 00:06:47 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Austrailia beat England and they said that England had died so they had to have some ASHES so they set fire to the wickets. Hence the Ashes
2007-01-11 19:45:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is one story!
2007-01-11 21:13:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sure it is George Bush's fault somehow.
2007-01-11 19:03:38 · answer #9 · answered by Jeff E 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That has stumped me ----- cricket is crap!!!
2007-01-11 18:25:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋