Ashes arrive
NZPA-AAP Sydney Cricket’s most coveted trophy, The Ashes, arrived in Australia yesterday for the Bicentennial test match between Australia and'England. The urn containing the Ashes, the symbol of supremacy in test cricket between the two countries, was accepted by N.S.W. Cricket Association executive director, Bob Radford, at Sydney Airport. The urn came on the same flight as the Prince and Princess of Wales, who are in Australia for a ten-day Bicentennial tour, and will leave with them on February 2 to be returned to the Marylebone Cricket Club (M.C.C.). The Ashes are the remains of bails used in an 1882 test match in which Australia defeated England at the Oval, the first time England lost on home soil.
It is the first time they have left England in 104 years.
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Press, 26 January 1988, Page 44
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