Cricket's Burning Passion: Ivo Bligh and the Story of the Ashes

by ScyldBerry (Author), RupertPeploe (Author), Berry Scyld & Peploe Rupert (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $12.71

  After England's cricketers famously lost to Australia at the Oval in August 1882 a mock obituary notice was published in the Sporting Times , announcing that 'the body [of English cricket] would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia'. It was this announcement that brought 'the Ashes' into existence.