When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd (one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists), to get the runs. When it finally sank in, the crowd swarmed onto the field, cheering loudly and chairing Boyle and Spofforth to the pavilion. An astonished Oval crowd fell silent, struggling to believe that England could possibly have lost on home soil. When Ted Peate, England's last batsman, came to the crease, his side needed just ten runs to win, but Peate managed only two before he was bowled by Harry Boyle. Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory. The Australians were greatly demoralised by the manner of their second-innings collapse, but fast bowler Fred Spofforth, spurred on by the gamesmanship of his opponents, in particular W. In their second innings, Australia, boosted by a spectacular 55 runs off 60 deliveries from Hugh Massie, managed 122, which left England only 85 runs to win. Hornby, took a 38-run lead with a total of 101. Australia made a mere 63 runs in their first innings, and England, led by A. It was a low-scoring affair on a difficult wicket. On their tour of England that year the Australians played just one Test, at the Oval in London. The first Test match between England and Australia was played in Melbourne, Australia, in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.
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There have been 71 Ashes series: Australia have won 33, England 32 and six series have been drawn.įred Spofforth, "The Demon Bowler", was instrumental in Australia's 1882 victory over England with 14 wickets for 90.
If the series is drawn, the team that currently holds the Ashes retains the trophy.
The Ashes are regarded as being held by the team that most recently won the series. Irrespective of which side holds the tournament, 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.Īn Ashes series traditionally consists of five Tests, hosted in turn by England and Australia at least once every two years. Since the 1998–99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn (called the Ashes Trophy) has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series. However, replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series. The urn has never been the official trophy of the Ashes series, having been a personal gift to Bligh. It is not clear whether that "tiny silver urn" is the same as the small terracotta urn given to the MCC by Bligh's widow after his death in 1927. 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". The English media therefore dubbed the tour the quest to regain the Ashes.Īfter England had won two of the three Tests 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. The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, before which the English captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to "regain those ashes". The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil. The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The Ashes urn, made of terracotta and about 10.5Ĭm tall, is reputed to contain the ashes of a burnt cricket bail.
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