From the Ashes

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Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. In July , rioting and discontent ruled the streets of England. On the playing fields, England was down after two tests against old enemy, Australia, and iconic all-rounder Ian Botham, had resigned as English captain, hours before being pushed.

Brilliant and eloquent, he seemed to be a master of the universe. With English cricket on the brink, bookmakers offered odds of against an English win in the 3rd test. Yet, Botham would not lie down and rediscovered his cavalier flair in a series of remarkable, match-winning performances that defined him and saw The Ashes returned home. Packed with match action and interviews with the chief protagonists - including Botham, Gower, Willis, Marsh, Hughes and more - From The Ashes is set over one tempestuous month and tells the story of one of the most It showcases not just the considerable talents of England's greatest all rounder, Ian Botham, but also why the game of cricket is so loved by those who stand proud to be counted as fans.

The documentary, however, is not just concerned with the sport of cricket, it's very aware of the impact that a country's sports stars can have on the nation. Brearley was Botham's Spock to his Kirk. The Ashes series was played to the backdrop of social discord as Thatcher's government oversaw strikes, riots and unemployment carnage.

Britain was falling to its knees, and as the England cricket team, with their figurehead Botham misfiring and under fire in the press, fell behind to a cock-a-hoop Australia, apathy ruled and the crowds did dwindle.

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Leeds in mid July and England, the cricket team, were spiralling towards a certain defeat, but cometh the hour, cometh the men Botham and Bob Willis , out of darkness comes light, the miracle of Headingly not only transformed a sporting series that England would amazingly win, it put the smile back on the faces of a working class Britain that had forgotten to do so. Full of insightful input by the key Australians of that series characters supreme they be as well , Erskine is not all about flag waving for Britannia, in fact a post script on the next Ashes series ensures we know about how Australian captain Kim Hughes a beautiful and correct batsman himself also came out of that cricket darkness.

The sound mix and editing is top draw as well love those sound bites of a dramatic cricket incident played to a photographic still that says it all , and Hardy's narration proves he is heir apparent to Brian Blessed's crown! Many other sports have participants these days that fail to realise just how their efforts can lift a nation, make them feel good in times of struggle, to play for what is on your chest and not what is in your wallet.

From the Ashes at its core is about that, it's an ode to being all that you can be, to inspire, even if it happens to be only briefly. In the 20 years following Bligh's campaign the term "the Ashes" largely disappeared from public use. There is no indication that this was the accepted name for the series, at least not in England. The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen , in his memoirs With Bat and Ball , , used the term as if it were well known.

The true and global revitalisation of interest in the concept dates from , when Pelham Warner took a team to Australia with the promise that he would regain "the ashes". As had been the case on Bligh's tour 20 years before, the Australian media latched fervently onto the term and, this time, it stuck. Although the origins of the term are not referred to in the text, the title served along with the general hype created in Australia to revive public interest in the legend.

The first mention of "the Ashes" in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack occurs in , while Wisden' s first account of the legend is in the edition. As it took many years for the name "the Ashes" to be given to ongoing series between England and Australia, there was no concept of there being a representation of the ashes being presented to the winners. As late as the following verse appeared in The Cricketers Annual:. Nevertheless, several attempts had been made to embody the Ashes in a physical memorial. Examples include one presented to Warner in , another to Australian captain M.

Noble in , and another to Australian captain W. The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the —83 tour. The precise nature of the origin of this urn is matter of dispute. Based on a statement by Darnley in , it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy , made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis [8] and Joy Munns [9] have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke , at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

This was before the matches had started. The prime evidence for this theory was provided by a descendant of Clarke. He made the following statement about how he was given the urn: When in the autumn the English Eleven went to Australia it was said that they had come to Australia to "fetch" the ashes. England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven. A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in during a speech at a cricket luncheon.

Her speech was reported by the London Times as follows: In , she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket "whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia". Her husband, then Ivo Bligh, took a team to Australia in the following year. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband's Ivo Bligh's hands.

He had always regarded it as a great treasure. There is another statement which is not totally clear made by Lord Darnley in about the timing of the presentation of the urn.

He was interviewed in his home at Cobham Hall by Montague Grover and the report of this interview was as follows: This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England. He made a similar statement in The report of this statement in the Brisbane Courier was as follows: The proudest possession of Lord Darnley is an earthenware urn containing the ashes which were presented to him by Melbourne residents when he captained the Englishmen in Though the team did not win, the urn containing the ashes was sent to him just before leaving Melbourne.

The contents of the urn are also problematic; they were variously reported to be the remains of a stump, bail or the outer casing of a ball, but in Darnley's year-old daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law's veil, casting a further layer of doubt on the matter. Speaking on Channel Nine TV on 25 November , he said x-rays of the urn had shown the pedestal and handles were cracked, and repair work had to be carried out.

A label containing a six-line verse is pasted on the urn. This is the fourth verse of a song-lyric published in the Melbourne Punch on 1 February When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn; Studds , Steel , Read and Tylecote return, return; The welkin will ring loud, The great crowd will feel proud, Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn; And the rest coming home with the urn. During Darnley's lifetime there was little public knowledge of the urn, and no record of a published photograph exists before The Illustrated London News published this photo in January shown above.

When Darnley died in 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'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. It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the match.

Because the urn itself is so delicate, it has been allowed to travel to Australia only twice.

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It then toured to other states, with the final appearance at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery on 21 January In the s, given Australia's long dominance of the Ashes and the popular acceptance of the Darnley urn as "the Ashes", the idea was mooted that the victorious team should be awarded the urn as a trophy and allowed to retain it until the next series.

Furthermore, in , Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley , argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping. As a compromise, the MCC commissioned a trophy in the form of a larger replica of the urn in Waterford Crystal , to award to the winning team of each series from — This is known as the Ashes Trophy. Later in , following the famous Australian victory at The Oval, Bligh led an England team to Australia, as he said, to "recover those ashes".

Publicity surrounding the series was intense, and it was at some time during this series that the Ashes urn was crafted. Australia won the First Test by nine wickets , but in the next two England were victorious. At the end of the Third Test, England were generally considered to have "won back the Ashes" 2—1.

A fourth match was played, against a "United Australian XI", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the —83 series. It "is" counted as a Test, but as a standalone.

This match ended in a victory for Australia.

After Bligh's victory, there was an extended period of English dominance. The tours generally had fewer Tests in the s and s than people have grown accustomed to in more recent years, the first five-Test series taking place only in — England lost only four Ashes Tests in the s out of 23 played, and they won all the seven series contested. There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country in —88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia and popularity with the fans varied.

The s games were more closely fought, Australia taking its first series win since with a 2—1 victory in — But England dominated, winning the next three series to despite continuing player disputes. The —95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on. Australia had scored a massive Syd Gregory , George Giffen and then dismissed England for But England responded with and then dramatically dismissed Australia for with Bobby Peel taking 6 for At the close of the second last day's play, Australia were —2, needing only 64 more runs.

But heavy rain fell overnight and next morning the two slow left-arm bowlers, Peel and Johnny Briggs , were all but unplayable. England went on to win the series 3—2 after it had been all square before the Final Test, which England won by 6 wickets. The English heroes were Peel, with 27 wickets in the series at an average of In England under the captaincy of W. Grace won the series 2—1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance. Australia resoundingly won the —98 series by 4—1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott. His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in , —02 and the classic series , which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

Five matches were played in but the first two were drawn after being hit by bad weather. At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored on a "bad wicket", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

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England won the last Test at The Oval by one wicket. Chasing to win, it slumped to 48—5 before Jessop's gave them a chance. He reached his hundred in just 75 minutes.

The last-wicket pair of George Hirst and Rhodes were required to score 15 runs for victory. When Rhodes joined him, Hirst reportedly said: After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in — England and Australia were evenly matched until the outbreak of the First World War in Five more series took place between and In England's captain Stanley Jackson not only won the series 2—0, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages.

Monty Noble led Australia to victory in both —08 and Then England won in —12 by four matches to one. Jack Hobbs establishing himself as England's first-choice opening batsman with three centuries, while Frank Foster 32 wickets at England retained the Ashes when it won the Triangular Tournament , which also featured South Africa.

After the war, Australia took firm control of both the Ashes and world cricket. For the first time, the tactic of using two express bowlers in tandem paid off as Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald crippled the English batting on a regular basis. Australia recorded overwhelming victories both in England and on home soil. It won the first eight matches in succession including a 5—0 whitewash in — at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

The ruthless and belligerent Armstrong led his team back to England in where his men lost only two games late in the tour to narrowly miss out of being the first team to complete a tour of England without defeat. England won only one Test out of 15 from the end of the war until In a rain-hit series in , England managed to eke out a 1—0 victory with a win in the final Test at The Oval. Because the series was at stake, the match was to be "timeless", i.

Australia had a narrow first innings lead of Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe took the score to 49—0 at the end of the second day, a lead of Heavy rain fell overnight, and next day the pitch soon developed into a traditional sticky wicket. England seemed doomed to be bowled out cheaply and to lose the match. In spite of the very difficult batting conditions, however, Hobbs and Sutcliffe took their partnership to before Hobbs was out for exactly Sutcliffe went on to make and England won the game comfortably. Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after , with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the —29 series.

Despite the debut of Donald Bradman , the inexperienced Australians, led by Jack Ryder , were heavily defeated, losing 4—1. In , Bill Woodfull led an extremely inexperienced team to England. Bradman fulfilled his promise in the series when he scored runs at A modest Bradman can be heard in a recording saying "I have always endeavoured to do my best for the side, and the few centuries that have come my way have been achieved in the hope of winning matches. My one idea when going into bat was to make runs for Australia. Bradman himself thought that his in the preceding match, at Lord's , was a better innings.

Clarrie Grimmett 's 29 wickets at It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's —33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory , better known as Bodyline. Jardine instructed his fast bowlers , most notably Harold Larwood and Bill Voce , to bowl at the bodies of the Australian batsmen, with the goal of forcing them to defend their bodies with their bats, thus providing easy catches to a stacked leg-side field.

Jardine insisted that the tactic was legitimate and called it "leg theory" but it was widely disparaged by its opponents, who dubbed it "Bodyline" from "on the line of the body". Although England decisively won the Ashes 4—1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders.

I'm here to win the Ashes". Some of the Australians wanted to use Bodyline in retaliation, but Woodfull flatly refused. He famously told England manager Pelham Warner , "There are two teams out there. One is playing cricket; the other is making no attempt to do so" after the latter had come into the Australian rooms to express sympathy for a Larwood bouncer had struck the Australian skipper in the heart and felled him.

On the batting-friendly wickets that prevailed in the late s, most Tests up to the Second World War still gave results. It should be borne in mind that Tests in Australia prior to the war were all played to a finish. Many batting records were set in this period. The Ashes series began with the notable absence of Larwood, Voce and Jardine. The MCC had made it clear, in light of the revelations of the bodyline series, that these players would not face Australia.

The MCC, although it had earlier condoned and encouraged [ citation needed ] bodyline tactics in the —33 series, laid the blame on Larwood when relations turned sour. Larwood was forced by the MCC to either apologise or be removed from the Test side. He went for the latter.

Australia recovered the Ashes in and held them until , though no Test cricket was played during the Second World War. As in , the series was decided in the final Test at The Oval. Australia, batting first, posted a massive in the first innings.

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