wat is ashes cricket???

Question

who started it? which country hosts it? and on which days of the year is it played ?

Answer 1

it is a test series played every year between england and australia,in the memory of them creating the game.

Answer 2

The Ashes is a Test cricket series, played between England and Australia - it is international cricket's most celebrated rivalry and dates back to 1882. It is currently played nominally biennially, alternately in England and Australia. However since cricket is a summer game, the venues being in opposite hemispheres means the break between series is alternately 18 months and 30 months. A series of "The Ashes" now comprises five Test matches, two innings per match, under the regular rules for international cricket. If a series is drawn then the country holding the Ashes retains them.

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.[3]. Replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series , but the actual urn has never been presented or displayed as a trophy in this way. Whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum at Lord's since being bequeathed to the MCC by Ivo Bligh's widow upon his death.[1].

Since the 1998-99 Ashes series, a Waterford crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.

Australia currently hold The Ashes, after beating England 5-0 to regain them in 2006-07. The next Ashes series will be held in England in 2009.

For more details, please check the following link:

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

Answer 3

In affectionate remembrance of English cricket which died at The Oval, 29th August, 1882. Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances, RIP. NB The body will be cremated and the Ashes taken to Australia."

Australia's first victory on English soil over the full strength of England, on August 29, 1882, inspired a young London journalist, Reginald Shirley Brooks, to write this mock "obituary''. It appeared in the Sporting Times.

Before England's defeat at The Oval, by seven runs, arrangements had already been made for the Hon. Ivo Bligh, afterwards Lord Darnley, to lead a team to Australia. Three weeks later they set out, now with the popular objective of recovering the Ashes. In the event, Australia won the first Test by nine wickets, but with England winning the next two it became generally accepted that they brought back the Ashes.

It was long believed that the real Ashes - a small urn thought to contain the ashes of a bail used in the third match - were presented to Bligh by a group of Melbourne women. In 1998, Lord Darnley's 82-year-old daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law's veil, not a bail. Other evidence suggests a ball. The certain origin of the Ashes, therefore, is the subject of some dispute.

After Lord Darnley's death in 1927, the urn was given to MCC by Lord Darnley's Australianborn widow, Florence. It can be seen in the cricket museum at Lord's, together with a red and gold velvet bag, made specially for it, and the scorecard of the 1882 match.

Answer 4

the ashes is a cricket series between australia and england, played in each country about every 2-3 years.
it originated some time around the late 1800s when england lost to australia in england for the first time, to commemorate this event, since it was more or less a massive one where england was once the top team in the world (hard to imagine), a bail was burnt and its ashes placed in an urn to mark the death of english cricket.
This was more of a publicity stunt more than anything by the english media, but it became popular and now every series between australia and england, is called the ashes series.
But the actual urn isnt up for grabs in this competition,no, actually the Marylebourne Cricket Club which is a museum in Lords actually bought the urn, so even tho the urn may go to any of the two countries for exhibition during the tour, regardless of who wins the series it returns to museum at the end..

Answer 5

The Ashes

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

Answer 6

it was started when the whole melbourne cricket ground was burnt to ashes . it is hosted by england and austrailia on alternate basis. the ashes are played near to the date when this disaster in the history of cricket happened.the winner of this rubber(series) is given a small cup containing the ashes of the ground

Answer 7

A legendry cricket play between Australia&England

Answer 8

Australia Vs England
every two years

Answer 9

Btwn ausies and england

first mactch wickets were burnt and placed in an urn called the ashes trophy which the teams play for. 5 test matches.

Answer 10

it was started b/w australia and england and the cup has a ash of a bat... for that ash they r fighting and the tournament name is as ashes...