Where is the other Ashes bail?
John Huxley has a go at answering the question in the Sydney Morning Herald .
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
John Huxley has a go at answering the question in the Sydney Morning Herald.
While the cricketing world continues to debate whether the Ashes urn contains the remains of a burned bail, the National Museum of Australia believes it can answer the question of what happened to the "other" bail.
It was made into a paper knife that has belatedly been put on display in Canberra alongside other national sporting treasures, such as Don Bradman's batting gloves, Evonne Goolagong Cawley's Wimbledon trophies and Phar Lap's heart. For several decades the knife lay in the desk drawer of Michael Clarke, grandson of Lady Clarke, the woman who famously presented visiting English captain Ivo Bligh with the Ashes urn when the team stayed at the family's Victorian estate.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo