The Ashes rivalry begins
1882 · Event
Australia's first Test win on English soil, at The Oval, prompts the Sporting Times to publish a mock obituary for English cricket — its body to be cremated and 'the ashes taken to Australia'. The urn and the rivalry follow.
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