Australia Regain THE ASHES, AUSSIE AUSSIE, OI OI OI!!!!

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Test no. 1821

The Ashes - 3rd Test

Australia v England 2006/07 season Played at W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth, on 14,15,16,17,18 December 2006 (5-day match)

Result Australia won by 206 runs

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what's the ashes?

[hampster 0]

what's the ashes?

The Ashes is a Series of Test Cricket games Between England and Australia.

"In affectionate remembrance of English cricket which died at The Oval, 29th August, 1882. Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances, RIP. NB The body will be cremated and the Ashes taken to Australia."

Australia's first victory on English soil over the full strength of England, on August 29, 1882, inspired a young London journalist, Reginald Shirley Brooks, to write this mock "obituary''. It appeared in the Sporting Times.

Before England's defeat at The Oval, by seven runs, arrangements had already been made for the Hon. Ivo Bligh, afterwards Lord Darnley, to lead a team to Australia. Three weeks later they set out, now with the popular objective of recovering the Ashes. In the event, Australia won the first Test by nine wickets, but with England winning the next two it became generally accepted that they brought back the Ashes.

It was long believed that the real Ashes - a small urn thought to contain the ashes of a bail used in the third match - were presented to Bligh by a group of Melbourne women. In 1998, Lord Darnley's 82-year-old daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law's veil, not a bail. Other evidence suggests a ball. The certain origin of the Ashes, therefore, is the subject of some dispute.

After Lord Darnley's death in 1927, the urn was given to MCC by Lord Darnley's Australianborn widow, Florence. It can be seen in the cricket museum at Lord's, together with a red and gold velvet bag, made specially for it, and the scorecard of the 1882 match.

<LI>The text on the urn is as follows:- When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;

Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;

The welkin will ring loud,

The great crowd will feel proud,

Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn;

And the rest coming home with the urn.

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aussie aussie aussie OI OI OI

[CarolineM 0]

GO AUSSIES

[silvanski 1]

No surprise there... Go Aussies!

[mellie 1]

I just cant get into the cricket thing. I mean, a game lasting 5 DAYS???! Good on em anyways, tho!!

[munchkins 1]

You were just lucky :whistle:

[devblt 0]

Well that sucks big time.. I'm an english ex-pat and have been following the ashes series over the last month. I knew it'd be difficult but to go out like this is just shameful.

Can't wait till 2009 when Warney and Co will hopefully have retired and the ashes can come back home where they truley belong!

[Delhiguy 0]

Ia ctually cant wait for the next Ashes Congrats, Aussies, now lets see waht goes on in the next one....

[silvanski 1]

I just cant get into the cricket thing. I mean, a game lasting 5 DAYS???!

...and then end undecided... yep that's cricket!

[kim&james 0]

I just cant get into the cricket thing. I mean, a game lasting 5 DAYS???!

...and then end undecided... yep that's cricket!

LOL one day matches are alot of fun...

[melly 0]

Congratulations?

I saw the thread title and couldn't for the life of me figure out what it meant before reading the thread.