The Ashes urn is a small urn made of terracotta and standing 10.5 cm (4.1 inches) high, long believed to contain the ashes of a cricket bail or the burnt...
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won two of the three Tests on the tour, a small urn was presented to Bligh in Melbourne. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of a wooden...
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civilizations. After death, corpses are cremated, and the ashes are collected and put in an urn. Pottery urns, dating from about 7000 BC, have been found in...
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Dick Barlow (category Players of the North cricketers)
part in the original Ashes match and is commemorated by the poem pasted on the side of The Ashes urn: When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn; Studds...
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The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The series have varied in length, consisting of between one and seven Test matches...
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their biennial attempt to win the urn. In March 2005, Australia captain Ricky Ponting said this Ashes series would be the closest since Australia's dominance...
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The game is licensed by the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board), Cricket Australia and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), owners of the Ashes Urn....
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Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk is a work by Sir Thomas Browne, published in 1658 as the first part...
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losing the third Test, England ceded the Ashes to Australia. England's holding the Ashes urn for only 15 months made this the shortest period in Ashes history...
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Awarded to the FIBA World Cup champions Cricket World Cup Trophy – Awarded to the Winners of the ICC Cricket World Cup. The Ashes urn – Awarded to the winning...
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