The Quest for The Ashes
 photo by Daniel Greef |
The Ashes is Test cricket's most anticipated series and features a fierce rivalry between the cricket teams of England and Australia to prove their supremacy in the cricket field. Its history stretches back to 1882, when Australia's first victory on the English soil over the English cricket team inspired a young London journalist, Reginald Shirley Brooks, to write a mock "obituary'' of English cricket.
The obituary declared that English cricket had "died" and ""the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". England's subsequent tour of Australia in 1882-83 was dubbed as "the quest to regain The Ashes." When England won the series 2-1, a group of Melbourne women gave a small urn to the visiting English side which contained ashes of some disputed origin to take back to England. It was generally claimed that they had brought back The Ashes from Down Under. The urn now resides in the cricket museum at Lord's Cricket Ground.
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