LONDON: The Ashes urn will make its first adventure to Australia in 12 years later this yr when it is displayed within the State Library Victoria in Melbourne, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) announced on Wednesday.
The urn, which historically resides within the MCC museum at its Lord's floor headquarters, without reference to the result of an England-Australia Test sequence, shall be on show within the Library's 'Velvet, Iron, Ashes' exhibition from December 2019 till February 2020.
By then the most recent Ashes sequence between Test cricket's oldest rivals will have been completed, with England staging a five-match sequence from August 1 to September 16 as they look to compensate for a 4-0 away drubbing in 2017/18.
This shall be best the 3rd time the urn has travelled to Australia; it used to be exhibited for less than every week during the country's 1988 Bicentennial celebrations and visited six cities in three months during the 2006/07 Ashes sequence.
England and Australia performed what's now considered to be the primary men's cricket Test tournament at Melbourne in 1877.
The Ashes themselves got here into being following England's first house defeat by Australia at The Oval in London in 1882.
Afterwards, the Sporting Times newspaper published a ridicule obituary of English cricket that concluded by saying: "The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia."
On England's subsequent excursion of Australia in 1882/83, a small terracotta urn stated to include the Ashes of a burnt bail used to be introduced to visiting captain Ivo Bligh.
Following his loss of life, the urn used to be bequeathed to the MCC and has remained the stated symbol of Anglo-Australian cricket supremacy.
Since the 1998/99 sequence, alternatively, the profitable Ashes captain has been in a position to hold aloft a Waterford Crystal copy commissioned by the MCC.
"We are delighted to loan the Ashes Urn, a symbolic and special treasure, to State Library Victoria," stated MCC chief executive and secretary Guy Lavender in a statement.
"The story of the Ashes Urn is one that captivates so many people around the world and the State Library Victoria's exhibition is a very fitting place for its story to be told."
State Library Victoria chief executive Kate Torney added: "We are thrilled to have the chance to bring to life the wonderful stories surrounding the Ashes tradition, which of course, began here in Melbourne."
The urn, which historically resides within the MCC museum at its Lord's floor headquarters, without reference to the result of an England-Australia Test sequence, shall be on show within the Library's 'Velvet, Iron, Ashes' exhibition from December 2019 till February 2020.
By then the most recent Ashes sequence between Test cricket's oldest rivals will have been completed, with England staging a five-match sequence from August 1 to September 16 as they look to compensate for a 4-0 away drubbing in 2017/18.
This shall be best the 3rd time the urn has travelled to Australia; it used to be exhibited for less than every week during the country's 1988 Bicentennial celebrations and visited six cities in three months during the 2006/07 Ashes sequence.
England and Australia performed what's now considered to be the primary men's cricket Test tournament at Melbourne in 1877.
The Ashes themselves got here into being following England's first house defeat by Australia at The Oval in London in 1882.
Afterwards, the Sporting Times newspaper published a ridicule obituary of English cricket that concluded by saying: "The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia."
On England's subsequent excursion of Australia in 1882/83, a small terracotta urn stated to include the Ashes of a burnt bail used to be introduced to visiting captain Ivo Bligh.
Following his loss of life, the urn used to be bequeathed to the MCC and has remained the stated symbol of Anglo-Australian cricket supremacy.
Since the 1998/99 sequence, alternatively, the profitable Ashes captain has been in a position to hold aloft a Waterford Crystal copy commissioned by the MCC.
"We are delighted to loan the Ashes Urn, a symbolic and special treasure, to State Library Victoria," stated MCC chief executive and secretary Guy Lavender in a statement.
"The story of the Ashes Urn is one that captivates so many people around the world and the State Library Victoria's exhibition is a very fitting place for its story to be told."
State Library Victoria chief executive Kate Torney added: "We are thrilled to have the chance to bring to life the wonderful stories surrounding the Ashes tradition, which of course, began here in Melbourne."
Ashes urn set for rare Australia visit
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