Honourable Ivo Bligh England (Eng)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	n/a
	Tests	First-class
Matches	4	84
Runs scored	62	2337
Batting average	10.33	20.70
100s/50s	0/0	2/12
Top score	19	113*
Balls bowled	0	0
Wickets	0	0
Bowling average	n/a	n/a
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	n/a	n/a
Catches/stumpings	7/0	81/0
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Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley (13 March 1859-10 April 1927), known earlier in his life as The Honourable Ivo Bligh, was a cricketer who captained the English cricket team in the first ever Ashes series in Australia in 1882/3. Later in life, he inherited the Earldom of Darnley and was elected an Irish representative peer. March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ... This is a list of cricketers who have captained the English cricket team for at least one Test match. ... The English cricket team is a national cricket team representing England and Wales, although Wales is almost never mentioned in the teams name. ... For more coverage of cricket, see the Cricket portal. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Earldom of Darnley has been created in both the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland. ... In the United Kingdom, representative peers were individuals elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to represent them in the British House of Lords. ...

After an English team led by Monkey Hornby lost to the Australians at The Oval in 1882, the Sporting Times newspaper wrote a mock obituary to English cricket, noting that the body would be cremated and the ashes sent to Australia. The following winter's tour to Australia was widely billed as an attempt to reclaim the Ashes. Bligh's team was successful, winning the 3-match Ashes series 2-1, though a fourth game, not played for the Ashes, was lost. Template:Infobox Albert Hornby Albert Neilson Hornby (10 February 1847 – 17 December 1925), better known as Monkey Hornby, or to his players as The Boss was the England cricket captain who lost the test match at home in 1882 against the Australian cricket team that gave rise to the Ashes. ... The famous gasholders, which are now listed buildings. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

A small terracotta urn was presented to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women after England's victory in the Test series. The urn is reputed to contain a set of burnt bails symbolising "the ashes of English cricket". While the urn has come to symbolise the Ashes series, the name The Ashes predates the existence of the urn. The urn is not used as the trophy for the Ashes series, and whichever side "holds" the Ashes, the urn remains in the MCC Museum at Lord's. Since the 1998/99 Ashes series, a Waterford crystal trophy has been presented to the winners

Ivo is commemorated by the poem inscribed on the side of the urn:

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.

Bligh also played for Cambridge University and Kent County Cricket Club in a first-class cricket career that lasted from 1877 to 1883. He was also president of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1900 and of Kent County Cricket Club in 1892 and 1902. In 1900 he became the eighth Earl of Darnley on the death of his father. The three famous Studd brothers, Charles, Kynaston & George, were Victorian gentleman cricketers; they were educated at Eton and Cambridge. ... Allan Gibson Steel (registered at birth as Alan Gibson Steel) (24 September 1858-15 June 1914) was an English cricketer, who was reckoned by many in his day to be the equal of the legendary WG Grace. ... Walter William Read (23 November 1855-6 January 1907) was an English cricketer, who was a right hand bat, right hand slow underarm bowler, but right hand fast roundarm bowler. ... Edward Ferdinando Sutton Tylecote (born 23 June 1849 in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, England; died 15 March 1938 in New Hunstanton, Norfolk, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Kent. ... Richard (Dick) Gorton Barlow (born 28 May 1851 in Barrow Bridge, Bolton, Lancashire, England; died 31 July 1919 in Stanley Park, Blackpool, Lancashire, England) was a cricketer who played for Lancashire and England. ... Willie Bates, known as Billy (19 November 1855 - 8 January 1900) was an English all-round cricketer. ... Cambridge University Cricket Club (now subsumed into the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a first-class cricket team. ... Kent County Cricket Club is an English county cricket club based at Canterbury, Kent. ... First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, and which involve either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Lords 2005 The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1787, was the original governing body of international cricket. ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ...

Template:Infobox Albert Hornby Albert Neilson Hornby (10 February 1847 – 17 December 1925), better known as Monkey Hornby, or to his players as The Boss was the England cricket captain who lost the test match at home in 1882 against the Australian cricket team that gave rise to the Ashes. ... This is a list of all English national cricket captains, comprising all of the men, boys and women who have captained an English national cricket team at official international level. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... External link Cricinfo page on Lord Harris Categories: Cricket stubs | 1851 births | 1932 deaths | Cricketers | English cricketers | Oxford University cricketers | Kent cricketers | English batsmen | English test cricketers | English cricket captains ...

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See also

• History of Test cricket (to 1883)

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External links

• Cricinfo page on Hon. Ivo Bligh
• CricketArchive page on Ivo Bligh