what "Ashes" is called "Ashes"?

Question

England vs Aus test series called. what is the story behind this name "Ashes".

Answer 1

You can get all info from wikipedia. That would be better

Answer 2

in the test series played between Australia and England in 1892 in England, Australia beat england for the first time. After that defeat an obituary was published in the english new Paper sporting Times, which stated that english cricket had
died and that the body will be cremated and the ashes willbe taken to australia. The English media then dubbed the next English tour to Australia in 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 reported to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. Some Aborigines hold that The Ashes are in fact those of King Cole, the cricketer who toured England with the 1868 Aboriginal team. The Dowager Countess of Darnley, meanwhile, claimed recently that her mother-in-law (and Bligh's wife), Florence Morphy, said that they were the remains of a lady's veil.

Answer 3

England v Australia is the oldest continuous international cricket fixture, dating back to the first meeting at Melbourne in March 1877. Australia won then by 45 runs.

England won the first home encounter at the Oval in 1880, but at the same ground on the next Australian tour in August 1882 they suffered their first home defeat, which prompted the famous obituary notice for English cricket in the Sporting Times. It led a group of Australian ladies the following winter to present the touring English captain, the Hon Ivo Bligh, with a small urn containing the ashes of a bail (or it may be a ball or even a veil).

Since the series of three matches played in that 1882-83 season Test matches between England and Australia have been deemed a contest for the Ashes, with the urn changing hands only when one side gains an outright series victory. Bligh's widow presented the urn to MCC after his death in 1927 and, apart from special exhibitions, it never leaves Lord's, although a replica has been presented to the victorious captain in some recent series.

England, captained by such giants as W.G. Grace, Arthur Shrewsbury and A.E. Stoddart, were dominant in this early period and Australia held the Ashes only once during the 12 series played between 1883 and 1896.

Answer 4

The Ashes 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. Some Aborigines hold that The Ashes are in fact those of King Cole, the cricketer who toured England with the 1868 Aboriginal team. The Dowager Countess of Darnley, meanwhile, claimed recently that her mother-in-law (and Bligh's wife), Florence Morphy, said that they were the remains of a lady's veil.

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

The Ashes is a Test cricket series, played between England and Australia dates back to 1882

Answer 6

I dont remember it completely.
But here is the story.

Well in a 1982 match, in an Aus-Eng match, England lost by a mere 7 runs while chasing somewhere around 80.

That match was played in Oval.

The Oval crowd there were shocked over the fact that thy could lose to their colony!

Out of Anger some of them burnt a bail used in that match.


From then onwards, the matches are played on the name of the bail urn. and the series is called the Ashes series.

Answer 7

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, but the Ashes legend dates back only to the ninth Test Match, played in 1882.

On their 1882 tour of England, the Australians played only one Test, at The Oval in London. It was a low-scoring affair on a difficult wicket.Australia made only 63 runs in its first innings, and England, led by "Boss" Hornby, took a 38-run lead with a total of 101. In their second innings, however, the Australians, boosted by a spectacular 55 from Hugh Massie, managed 122, which left England only 85 runs to win. Australian bowler Fred Spofforth refused to give in, however: "This thing can be done," he declared. Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England a mere seven short of victory in one of the closest and most nailbiting finishes in cricket history.

When Ted Peate, England's last batsman, came to the crease, his side needed just ten runs to win, but Peate scored only two before he was bowled by Harry Boyle. An astonished Oval crowd fell dead-silent, struggling to believe that England could possibly have lost to her colony. When it sunk in, however, the crowd swarmed onto the field, cheering loudly and chairing Boyle and Spofforth off the field.

When Peate returned to the pavilion, he was reprimanded by his peers for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd, to get the runs. Although Studd was one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists, Peate replied, "I had no confidence in Mr Studd, sir, so thought I had better do my best."

Answer 8

The ashes of the bail is in the urn.

thats all i know hehe

Acutally Pranks answer is good, that jogged my memory. i remember last year's ashes they told the story on chanell nine. He's got it right :)

Answer 9

I think you should ask Mr. Abhishek Bachhan about this. Wish you good luck.

Answer 10

Ahn that story will be boring.