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Australia's Shane Warne bowling the final ball of his Test career, at the fifth Ashes Test match &elipsis; [Credit: Rob Griffith/AP]![England celebrating their win of the Ashes on day five of the fifth Test match between England and &elipsis; [Credit: AP]](http://images.bookrags.com/images/eb/91381.gif)
England celebrating their win of the Ashes on day five of the fifth Test match between England and &elipsis; [Credit: AP]Symbol of victory in the usually biennial cricket Test (international) match series between select national teams of England and Australia, first staged in 1877. Its name stems from an epitaph published in 1882 after the Australian team had won its first victory over England in England, at the Oval, London.
The epitaph lamented that English cricket was dead and that its body would be cremated and the ashes sent to Australia. The following year an urn containing the ashes of a wicket bail was presented to the captain of the touring English team in Australia. The urn is now kept at Lord's Cricket Ground, headquarters of the Marylebone Cricket Club, long the foremost British club.
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