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The Ashes
Published or Updated March 5, 2011
Location: United Kingdom
Sport: Cricket
Level: Professional
Sport: Cricket
Level: Professional
Event Type: Rivalry
First Held: 1882
Next Up: TBA
First Held: 1882
Next Up: TBA
When and Where: biennially, alternating between various sites in England and Australia
Leave it to a British paper to write with wit and satire.
The Ashes – a name given to cricket’s biggest rivalry, England vs. Australia – was so named after an British paper, The Sporting Times, declared English cricket dead. In the faux-bituary, the readership was informed that, “the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.”
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In 1981, against 500-1 odds, England pulled off an improbable comeback against Australia.
In what is considered the ""Ball of the Century"", Shane Warne removed Mike Gatting's off bail so delicately that it made no sound.
The trophy is an urn, first began in 1882, that is reported to hold the remains of a burnt cricket ball.
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"The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia."
Jim Laker
