It is a little late to discover that someone wanted their ashes scattered over the South Pacific when their remains are safely interred in an English churchyard.

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The 36-year-old suffered the injury to the little finger of his left hand during the third Ashes Test in Perth.

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Or was his tiny, little body interred into the garden of remembrance, or was it his ashes?

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The paper reported the combined ashes would be spread over where the Colorado River and the Little Colorado River merge in the Grand Canyon.

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"We try to target the opposition captain a little bit, " said Australia skipper Ponting ahead of Wednesday's announcement of their Ashes squad.

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