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Hmmm, that's not what I remember about history ...
This from the site ASHES HISTORY
Australia versus England at cricket is the longest and most ferocious international sporting rivalry in existence.
The Ashes were born when the upstart colonials beat England at The Oval in 1882 - prompting a mock obituary in an English sporting newspaper which referred to the "ashes" of English cricket.
The only tangible trophy is a small urn supposedly containing the ashes of a bail presented to England captain Ivo Bligh in 1883.
This too was a stunt, but the intervening years have lent it respectability. It sits now in the museum at Lord's, where the long-awaited first Test begins on Thursday.
The match will be the 307th in a line stretching back to 1877, and unbroken except for two world wars.
Australia leads the series by 125 matches to 95, and is currently enjoying the greatest series-winning streak in Ashes history, having won the past eight.
It wasn't always so.
After losing the first ever Test in Melbourne in 1877, England dominated throughout late Victorian times and the early part of the 20th Century.
This from the site ASHES HISTORY
Australia versus England at cricket is the longest and most ferocious international sporting rivalry in existence.
The Ashes were born when the upstart colonials beat England at The Oval in 1882 - prompting a mock obituary in an English sporting newspaper which referred to the "ashes" of English cricket.
The only tangible trophy is a small urn supposedly containing the ashes of a bail presented to England captain Ivo Bligh in 1883.
This too was a stunt, but the intervening years have lent it respectability. It sits now in the museum at Lord's, where the long-awaited first Test begins on Thursday.
The match will be the 307th in a line stretching back to 1877, and unbroken except for two world wars.
Australia leads the series by 125 matches to 95, and is currently enjoying the greatest series-winning streak in Ashes history, having won the past eight.
It wasn't always so.
After losing the first ever Test in Melbourne in 1877, England dominated throughout late Victorian times and the early part of the 20th Century.
