Crickets ashes series is named after a spoof obituary printed in the sporting times in 1882 after a match at the oval in which australia beat england for the first time the eulogy stated that cricket had died been cremated and the ashes taken to australia dont worry we got them backmug design reads an affectionate remembrance of australian cricket which died at the oval on 7th january 2011 deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances rip nb the bo