Why the cricket test series between England and Australia is called Ashes Series?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

In 1882 Australia beat England at Oval for the first time on an English Ground. After this defeat, A satirical obtibury was
published in and Englash News Paper, the Sporting Times stating that English Cricket had died and that the body will be created 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. Since then the test series between England and Australia has been named as Ashes series..

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.

Answer 3

In 1882 Australia beat England at Oval for the first time on an English Ground. After this defeat, A satirical obtibury was
published in and Englash News Paper, the Sporting Times stating that English Cricket had died and that the body will be created 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. Since then the test series between England and Australia has been named as Ashes series..

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.

For more detains, please check the following link:

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

Answer 4

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. 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.

Answer 5

there was this test series in 1882 between england and australia at the end of which the players burned the bails and stored the ashes
later these ashes were stored in a small urn and thereafter each year both teams meet in a test tornament alternately in australia or england and play for the urn
not every tournament btn the two is called the ashes

Answer 6

the series between the Aussies and Poms are called as the ashes because many years ago , during a test series between the aussies and the english , a pair of bails were burnt to ashes and the ash was sealed inside a cup. That Cup is the trophy the winner gets to lift when they win the series..thats the reason why its called Ashes Series

Answer 7

In the first ever Cricket match between Australia and England, England lost so some English ladies burnt the bails and said that that was the day English Cricket died.

Answer 8

The winning team burns the wickets and sends the ashes to the losing team...
England vs. Australia is just like
India vs. Pakistan...

Answer 9

Both are christian countries so maybe they are trying to accept the futility of the game.

Answer 10

really i dont know