The Ashes

The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. —Reginald Shirley Brooks

The Ashes is a cricket series played between England and Australia. The Ashes are regarded as being held by the team that most recently won the Test series.

Quotes

• In Affectionate Remembrance of ENGLISH CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 29th AUGUST, 1882, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P.
• N.B. – The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.
  • Reginald Shirley Brooks, The Sporting Times (printed in the obituary)

• I've not travelled 6,000 miles to make friends. I'm here to win the Ashes.
  • Douglas Jardine, England cricket captain 1930s?

• England have only three major problems. They can't bat, they can't bowl and they can't field.
  • Journalist Martin Johnson describing England before the 1986/87 tour. England went on to win the Ashes.

• A fart competing with thunder
  • Graham Gooch, on England's lack of success against Australia in the 1990s [1]

• I'm struggling now, I've not been to bed yet and behind these sunglasses is a thousand stories.
  • Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff, 13th September 2005, The day after England reclaimed the ashes.

• Matthew Hoggard called the Prime Minister a knob when we were celebrating winning the Ashes at a Downing Street function, and you know what? That's the first thing Hoggy's got right in a while. Blair is a knob.
  • Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff