They aren't the ashes of a person. The tradition is that it is the ashes of the bails from the wickets of the first Ashes test. The name came from a editorial of a newspaper saying (after an English defeat) that English cricket had died and the ashes sent to Australia.
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The Ashes
The Ashes Urn
Australia.
a bail of hay and a cricket ball and a cricket bat and dom bradman ashes
Kept at Lords cricket ground in London the 'Ashes' is the trophy played for between England & Australia.
England
Dean Andrews (Ray Carling from Life on Mars & Ashes To Ashes)
Ashes Ashes was created in 2001.
No, there will not be a 4th series of BBC Ashes To Ashes.
yes there will be a third series of ashes to ashes.
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