ASHES STORY , HISTORY
Today we are going to discuss about the ashes story.
The Ashes is THE Test cricket series played b/W England and Australia.
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The Ashes urn, made of terracotta and about 15 cm (6 inches) tall, is reputed to contain a burnt cricket bail.
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| Countries |  Australia England |
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| Administrator | International Cricket Council |
| Format | Test cricket |
| First tournament | 1882–83 |
| Next tournament | 2017/18 (Australia) |
| Tournament format | 5-match series |
| Number of teams | 2 |
| Current trophy holder | England |
| Most successful | Australia (32 series wins) England (32 series wins) |
| Most runs | Don Bradman(5,028) |
| Most wickets | Shane Warne (195) |
The term ashes was originated in a satirical obituary published in the British newspaper, The Sporting Times, after Australia’s 1882 victory at The Oval ground, their first Test win on England soil. The obituary stated that England cricket had died and “the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia“.[1]
The mythical ashes became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, before which the England captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to “regain those ashes”. The England media dubbed the tour quest to regain the Ashes.
After England had won test series on the tour, a small urn was presented to Bligh by a group of Melbourne women including Florence Morphy, whom Bligh married within a year.[2
] The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of a wooden bail, and were humorously described as “the ashes of Australian cricket“.[3] It is not clear whether that “tiny silver urn” is the same as the small terracotta urn that has given to the MCC by Bligh’s widow after death in 1927.
The urn has never been the official trophy of Ashes series, having been a personal gift to Bligh.[4] However, replicas of the urn are often held a loft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series. Since the 1998–99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of Ashes urn (called the Ashes Trophy) has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.
Whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn remains in the MCC Museum at Lord’s; it has however been taken to Australia to be put on touring display on two occasions: as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations in 1988, and to accompany the Ashes series in 2006–07.
An Ashes series is of five Test matches, hosted in turn by England and Australia at least once every four years. As of August 2015, England hold the ashes, having won three of the five Tests in the 2015 Ashes series. Overall, Australia has won 32 series, England 32 and five series have been drawn.
ASHES STORY
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