brown plaque

England national cricket team, The Ashes, and Australia national cricket team brown plaque

England national cricket team · Cricket Club of Maurice Tate

Inscription

“This plaque honours the loss England suffered against Australia at The Oval in 1882 as the birth of 'The Ashes' The Sporting Times printed an obituary of the death of English cricket "The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia"”

Details

b. 1877

Life dates

Hobbs Gate, The Oval, Kennington Oval

SE11

Surrey County Cricket Club

Organisation

People & Places Honored

England national cricket team
cricket club of Maurice Tate, cricket club of Frank Woolley, cricket club of Jack Hobbs, cricket club of Kenneth Hutchings, cricket club of Leonard Hutton, cricket club of John Thomas Tyldesley, cricket club of Ernest Tyldesley, cricket club of A. N. Hornby, cricket club of George Gibson Macauley, cricket club of David Harris, cricket club of Hedley Verity, cricket club of Bobby Abel, cricket club of Tom Lockyer, cricket club of Harold Larwood, and cricket club of Geoffrey Boycott · (1877-present)
The Ashes
sporting competition
Australia national cricket team
cricket club