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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i'm disappointed. i thought the ashes were actually ashes, like of a burned cricket bat or something. seriously.
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Don't be despondent Zelda.
According to
Wikipedia:
"The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. Some Aborigines hold that The Ashes are those of King Cole, a cricketer who toured England in 1868.[2] The Dowager Countess of Darnley claimed in 1998 that her mother-in-law, Bligh's wife Florence Morphy, said that they were the remains of a lady's veil..."
I'd always been told they were the ashes of a bail (one of the two bits of wood at the top of the stumps).