orously replied, "I had no confidence in Mr Studd, sir, so thought I had better do my best."[6]The momentous defeat was widely recorded in the British press, which praised the Australians for their plentiful "pluck" and berated the Englishmen for their lack thereof. A celebrated poem appeared in Punch on Saturday, 9 September. The first verse, quoted most frequently, reads:Well done, Cornstalks! Whipt usFair and square,Was it luck that tript us?Was it scare?Kangaroo Land's 'Demon', or our ownWant of 'devil', coolness, nerve, backbone?On 31 August, in the Charles Alcock-edited magazine Cricket: A Weekly Record of The Game, there appeared a mock obituary:SACRED TO THE MEMORYOFENGLAND'S SUPREMACY IN THECRICKET-FIELDWHICH EXPIREDON THE 29TH DAY OF AUGUST, AT THE OVAL"ITS END WAS PEATE"1882 අළු බඳුන තරගාවලිය පිළිබඳව ද ස්පෝර්ටින්ග් ටයිම්ස් සඟරාවේ තිබූ ලිපියක්.On 2 September a more celebrated mock obituary, written by Reginald Shirley Brooks, appeared in The Sporting Ti