Berry Scyld, Peploe Rupert:
Cricket's Burning Passion
Ivo Bligh And The Story Of The Ashes
Methuen Publishing Ltd (United Kingdom), 2008
Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 9780413776631
ISBN-10: 0413776638
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Cricket's Burning Passion
After England's cricketers famously lost to Australia at the Oval in August 1882 a mock obituary notice was published in the "Sporting Times", announcing that 'the body [of English cricket] would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia'. It was this announcement that brought 'the Ashes' into existence.

