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Virginia1302 | 22:45 Fri 27th Jan 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Who's ashes are kept in a memorial urn at Lords and where was that death announced?
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Cricket. The Ashes. Burnt remains of the bails.


." In August 1882, when the fifth Anglo-Australian Test ended in a breathless seven-run victory for the visitors, the 27-year-old Reginald Shirley Watkinshaw, a.k.a. Brooks secured immortality of a sort by inserting a death notice in London's Sporting Times "in affectionate memory of English cricket," with the addendum: "The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia."

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