The Ashes return

Post by tj » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:07 pm

Back where they belong after a short stay in old blighty. We may let u have them back the next millenium.

Post by **chelsea** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:26 am

TJ, you have missed one very small point, win or loose, the ashes will be going back on the plane with us. The ashes always live in England, never anywhere else. If you are lucky, they may leave a photo of them for you to hang on the wall.

JW · Post by JW » Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:37 am

Has been a let down, England under performing and the old guard from Oz proving their outstanding talent and heart for the fight (looks like the new guard could be equally dangerous - bugger!!).

Its a shame it didnt match the last series in England that was probably the best ever.

Hope we get our acts together cause this one has been bollxxxx.
Well done Oz.

Post by tj » Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:48 am

Yeah. fairly disapointing from the English guys. But u have to love Warney! Rumour has it that he will go to Englang to play county cricket and may line up for the poms in the next test. We aussies hope not !!

Post by **higgy** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:29 am

Yes,well done Australia,we were outplayed in the first 4 Tests just hope it rains in Sydnet to save our blushes.We have too many players who have not performed,Flintoffs batting,Strauss and Harmison earlier in the series would not get into Australia A team.
Ah well I will just have to comfort myself with Man Utd winning the Premiership

Post by **lomuamart** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:44 am

I won't even start to link all the articles I've read from the British press.
They can get their "head doctors" in there together with their "team spirit" and talk as much as they want to, but at the end of the day we were beaten by a far superior side. Well played Australia - even though I know there's someone in Perth who'll be gloating now.
A whitewash? If so it'll be the first time since the '20s, I think.
C'mon you barmy army. That was said very quietly

What was the song? "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the............"

Post by **chelsea** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:35 pm

lomuamart Wrote

Well played Australia - even though I know there's someone in Perth who'll be gloating now

Well I can assure that person will not be me, all I can say is that I hope that the next test last until after Thursday at 7.00am, as I will be flying off to the UK, to sulk in my beer with all the rest of them.

Post by **lomuamart** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:46 pm

chelsea wrote:lomuamart Wrote
Well played Australia - even though I know there's someone in Perth who'll be gloating now
Well I can assure that person will not be me, all I can say is that I hope that the next test last until after Thursday at 7.00am, as I will be flying off to the UK, to sulk in my beer with all the rest of them.

Na, didn't mean you, Chelsea.
Just an old friend who I met in HH years ago. He was one who "extracted the michael" out of me all those years ago when the English were losing in those days.

Post by **richard** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:50 pm

It can only get better

New manager, new captain, new team

Well done OZ, we never really got our act together. We will in 2009 though

Post by **richard** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:52 pm

Ps Think positive. After all it's only a pile of stump ashes in a shabby urn

Post by **PeteC** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:32 pm

richard wrote:Ps Think positive. After all it's only a pile of stump ashes in a shabby urn

Is that true? I've wanted to ask for a long time but hesitated thinking some past and famous cricket player's ashes were in there?

What is the history behind this??? Pete

Post by **richard** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:52 am

Dont know

Google it

Post by **chelsea** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:33 am

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in The Sporting Times in 1882 after the match at The Oval, in which Australia beat England in England for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour, to Australia (1882-83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.

A small terracotta urn was presented to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women at some point during the 1882-83 tour. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump.

Post by **richard** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:24 am

The Ashes is a Test cricket series, played between England and Australia - it is international cricket's oldest and most celebrated rivalry dating back to 1882. It is currently played nominally biennially, alternately in England and Australia. However since cricket is a summer game, the venues being in opposite hemispheres means the break between series is alternately 18 months and 30 months. If a series is drawn then the country holding the Ashes retains them.

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in The Sporting Times in 1882 after the match at The Oval, in which Australia beat England in England for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour, to Australia (1882-83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.

A small terracotta urn was presented to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women at some point during the 1882-83 tour. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. The urn is now used as a trophy for the Ashes series, and whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum at Lord's because it was bequeathed to the MCC by Ivo Bligh upon his death.[1] Since the 1998-99 Ashes series, a Waterford crystal trophy has been presented to the winners.

A five-Test Ashes series is currently underway in Australia: Australia has an unbeatable 4-0 lead, and have thus regained the Ashes. England's win in the previous series in 2005 was their first in 18 years. The next series in England will be held in 2009.

Post by **olmate** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:51 pm

lomuamart wrote: - even though I know there's someone in Perth who'll be gloating now"

I was gloating but no longer in Perth back in the big smoke and i must say i was very dissapointed in the fight the English put up this summer, absolute asspiss, like what you get when you eat some real off salt and pepper squid you know when you realise you can acctually spew and shit at the same time.

Go the Baggy green.