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The Ashes
Test cricket series played between Australia and England, the oldest known cricket league
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“N.B. – The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.”
“I've not travelled 6,000 miles to make friends. I'm here to win the Ashes.”
“England have only three major problems. They can't bat, they can't bowl and they can't field.”
“I'm struggling now, I've not been to bed yet and behind these sunglasses is a thousand stories.”
“Matthew Hoggard called the Prime Minister a knob when we were celebrating winning the Ashes at a Downing Street function, and you know what? That's the first thing Hoggy's got right in a while. Blair is a knob.”
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The Ashes is a Test cricket series played biennially between England and 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 obituary stated that English cricket had died, and that "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". 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 English media therefore dubbed the tour the Quest to regain the Ashes.
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