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The Ashes began with a mock obituary
A newspaper joked that English cricket had died and been cremated Australia beat England by seven runs at The Oval in August 1882, and the Sporting Times printed a notice mourning English cricket and saying the ashes would be taken to Australia. A tour led by Ivo Bligh followed that winter, and a small terracotta urn was presented to him. The urn is kept at Lord's. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The Ashes began with a mock obituary: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- A newspaper joked that English cricket had died and been cremated. The figure is taken from Marylebone Cricket Club, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.