Ashes to Ashes
It is hard to imagine a less ostentatious or more important bit of sporting memorabilia. The picture doesn’t really give you an idea how small it is, so here is a selfie, purely to give you a sense of scale of course. The story goes like this. In 1882 a team of cricketers came from Australia, and defeated the English team in a close game. Being beaten by a bunch of colonials (and from a former prison colony at that)…