2007-05-25 23:17:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Cricket
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2007-05-25 23:32:45 · update #1
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2007-05-25 23:33:23 · update #2
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2007-05-26 00:00:38 · update #3
The Ashes is a Test cricket series, played between England and Australia . It is most celebrated rivalry of International cricket dates back to 1882. It is currently played nominally biennially, alternately in England and Australia.
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. 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. 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.
For more details about Ashes series, please check the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes
2007-05-26 03:07:24 · answer #1 · answered by vakayil k 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
On 29th August, 1882, Australia beat England at the Oval for the first time in England. A newspaper sarcastically reported on this defeat, by using the metaphor of death to say that English cricket had died and that "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". This was printed in the obituary section of the paper.
The following year, England went to Australia to play and some fans gave the England captain a little urn containing the ashes of a burnt bail/stump. So since the newspaper and the urn incident, the series was dubbed "The Ashes". The original urn remains in Melbourne.
2007-05-26 07:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by rt10 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what happened was that after england lost to Australia some fans burnt the bails and put the ashes from the bails into a small clay urn. The ashes is said to be the biggest compitition in the history of cricket
2007-05-26 15:12:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the small urn they play for contains the ashes of the stumps used in the first ever test match between UK and OZ
2007-05-26 06:23:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the small urn they play for contains the ashes of the stumps used in the first ever test match
between England and australia.
England players burnt the stumps
& put ashes in to this urn after they
kicked Oz butt.
2007-05-26 10:35:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2014-08-27 02:48:26 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they burnt the bails of the 1883 Oval Test after England crumbled when sure of victory and put them in an urn.
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2007-05-26 06:28:03 · answer #8 · answered by motown 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋