CRICKET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 464, 10 July 1909, Page 3

CRICKET.

u THE ASHES.”

The third Test matcli has passed between the Mother Country and the Commonwealth. doubtless many who do not know : the origin of the term “ .which for over a quarter of a century has been applied to the struggles for the cricket supremacy.^: The fijcgt victory ever gained by Australia over England in the Old was that of Murdoch’s 1882 team. Only one test was , played-onr that tour, the colonial team Including such giants of the past as' Murdoch, Spofforth, Giffen, Boyle and Palmer. The game, was finished with the at fever pitch, When the last Englishman—Peate —went ib runs were wanted to win, bftfcifter the newcomer had Scored a pair he was clean bowled. The following number of an English sporting paper came out with"'the,, following ‘ f obituary” noti^S 1 ® : remembrance Of ENGLISH CRICKET, Which died at the Oval , On 29th./ AUGUST, 1882, Deeply lamented by a large 'v-gircle of sorrowing ' friends and acquaintances. . R.I.P. ;- v —The body will be Cremated, and the ashesbihehto Australia. Ever since this the Test matches have*: been known as “ fights- for the ashes*”