Who do you think will win the Ashes ?




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


England celebrating their win of the Ashes on day five of the fifth Test match between England and Australia at the Oval in London, Sept. 12, 2005.





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.
Some Aborigines hold that The Ashes are in fact those of King Cole, the cricketer who toured England in 1868

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.
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 presented to the MCC by Ivo Bligh's widow upon his death.

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.

 

well i say chap, cheerio to you good sir!

 

whizz O PiP PiP old boy

 

The mormons crickets that is....

 

Lol:d

 

From the headline I figured you meant MJ.

 

Who would want his ashes. He has so much plastic, when they cremated him, it would smell like a burning tire!

 

I heard when he died they were going to melt him down into Legos so kids could actually play with him.

 

The fist Test
Test Match Series England v Australia
08-07-2009 at Cardiff, Day 5 of 5
The fist Test England drew with Australia


The second Test
Test Match Series: England v Australia
16-07-2009 at Lord's, Day 5 of 5

England took a 1-0 lead in the Ashes series and ended a 75-year wait for a win against Australia at Lord's as they wrapped up a 115-run win before lunch on the final day of the second Test Yippee Yippee.


Andrew Flintoff, in his final Test appearance at the famous old ground, defied his injuries to take three of the five wickets England needed in an extraordinary 10-over spell to finish with 3-43 on the day and 5-92 in the innings.






Test Match Series: England v Australia
16-07-2009 at Lord's, Day 5 of 5

England beat Australia by 115 runs

England won the toss and decided to bat

England 1st Innings
425 all out (101.4 overs)

Australia 1st Innings
215 all out (63.0 overs)

England 2nd Innings
311 for 6 (71.2 overs)

Australia 2nd Innings
406 all out (107.0 overs)