The England cricket captain who led the team to "recover the Ashes" in 1882 was Ivo Bligh. After England's loss to Australia at The Oval in 1882, a satirical obituary was published in a British newspaper stating that English cricket had died, and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". Ivo Bligh's team then toured Australia in 1882-83 and won the series 2-1, which was seen as a symbolic regaining of the Ashes.