Cricket's Burning Passion : Ivo Bligh and the Story of the Ashes by Berry Scyld & Peploe Rupert

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.
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