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Message: <blockquote data-quote="andym" data-source="post: 541197" data-attributes="member: 129">Ah theres a problem.The Urn was a gift to The MCC and doesnt really have anything to do with the Ashes tournament per se.The Urn was gifted by some posh Nobs missus back in the 19th century.The actual match was back in 1882.The series is named after a satirical obituary published in The Sporting Times in 1882 following the match at The Oval, in which Australia beat England in England for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour, to Australia (1882-83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.During Darnleyâ€™s lifetime, there was little public knowledge of the urn, and no record of a published photograph exists before 1924. However, when Darnley died in 1927, his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes. MCC first displayed the urn in the Long Room at Lord's Cricket Ground and since 1953 in the MCC Cricket Museum at the ground. It is ironic that MCCâ€™s wish for it to be seen by as wide a range of cricket enthusiasts as possible has led to its being mistaken for an official trophy</blockquote>