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Originally Posted by skunk4u

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So it could have been a ball? No one knows?

Yep it could be.

Or a Veil..

But the Countess of Darnley, daughter-in-law of the English captain in that match, Ivo Bligh, has claimed that her mother, Bligh's then sweetheart Florence Murphy, supplied the Ashes.

"My mother in law told me the Ashes were a burnt veil she wore while Ivo was playing," the Guardian newspaper reported her as saying.
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