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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1905_to_1912" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1905_to_1912"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>1905 to 1912</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1905_to_1912-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1920_to_1933" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1920_to_1933"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>1920 to 1933</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1920_to_1933-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1934_to_1953" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1934_to_1953"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>1934 to 1953</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1934_to_1953-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1954_to_1971" 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href="#2005_to_2015"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.11</span> <span>2005 to 2015</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2005_to_2015-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2017_to_present" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2017_to_present"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.12</span> <span>2017 to present</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2017_to_present-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Summary_of_results_and_statistics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Summary_of_results_and_statistics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Summary of results and statistics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Summary_of_results_and_statistics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Match_venues" 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class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>England</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-England-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cultural_references" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cultural_references"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Cultural references</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cultural_references-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%85%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9C" title="দি অ্যাশেজ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="দি অ্যাশেজ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na_Luaithe_(cruic%C3%A9ad)" title="Na Luaithe (cruicéad) – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Na Luaithe (cruicéad)" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%94%94_%EC%95%A0%EC%8B%9C%EC%8A%A4" title="디 애시스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="디 애시스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C" title="द एशेज – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="द एशेज" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%86%E0%B2%B7%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D" title="ಆಷಸ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಆಷಸ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes_(criccetius_lusus)" title="Ashes (criccetius lusus) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Ashes (criccetius lusus)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%86%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D" title="ആഷസ് ക്രിക്കറ്റ് ടെസ്റ്റ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ആഷസ് ക്രിക്കറ്റ് ടെസ്റ്റ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A5%B2%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8" title="द ॲशेस – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="द ॲशेस" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C" title="द एशेज – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="द एशेज" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%82%BA" title="ジ・アッシズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ジ・アッシズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%D8%B2" title="ایشز – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ایشز" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%81" title="Эшес – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Эшес" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%85%E0%B7%85%E0%B7%94_%E0%B6%B6%E0%B6%B3%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%B1_%E0%B6%AD%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA" title="අළු බඳුන තරගාවලිය – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="අළු බඳුන තරගාවලිය" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="The Ashes" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B7%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D" title="ஆஷஸ் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="ஆஷஸ்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/The_Ashes_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="The Ashes (disambiguation)">The Ashes (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Cricket tournament</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) 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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Ashes_Urn.jpg/330px-Ashes_Urn.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Ashes_Urn.jpg/440px-Ashes_Urn.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/The_Ashes_urn" title="The Ashes urn">The Ashes urn</a>, made of <a href="/wiki/Terracotta" title="Terracotta">terracotta</a> and about 10.5 cm (4") tall, is reputed to contain the ashes of a burnt <a href="/wiki/Bail_(cricket)" title="Bail (cricket)">cricket bail</a>.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Countries</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" 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title="England">England</a>)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Next edition</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/2025%E2%80%9326_Ashes_series" title="2025–26 Ashes series">2025–26</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Tournament format</th><td class="infobox-data">5-match series</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Number of teams</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current trophy holder</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a> (Series drawn) (2023)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Most successful</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a> (34 series wins, six retentions)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Most runs</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia"><img alt="Australia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Bradman" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Bradman">Donald Bradman</a> (5,028)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Most wickets</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia"><img alt="Australia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Shane_Warne" title="Shane Warne">Shane Warne</a> (195)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>The Ashes</b> is a men's <a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test cricket</a> series played biennially between <a href="/wiki/England_national_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="England national cricket team">England</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a>. The term originated in a satirical <a href="/wiki/Obituary" title="Obituary">obituary</a> published in a British newspaper, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sporting_Times" title="The Sporting Times">The Sporting Times</a></i>, immediately after Australia's <a href="/wiki/History_of_Test_cricket_from_1877_to_1883#Australia_win_in_England_1882" title="History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883">1882 victory</a> at <a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">The Oval</a>, its first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and that "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Test_cricket_from_1877_to_1883#Bligh_reclaims_the_Ashes_1882/3" title="History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883">1882–83 series played in Australia</a>, before which the English captain <a href="/wiki/Ivo_Bligh,_8th_Earl_of_Darnley" title="Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley">Ivo Bligh</a> had vowed to "regain those ashes". The English media therefore dubbed the tour <i>the quest to regain the Ashes</i>. </p><p>After England won two of the three Tests on the tour, a small urn was presented to Bligh in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-events_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-events-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of a wooden <a href="/wiki/Bail_(cricket)" title="Bail (cricket)">bail</a>, and were humorously described as "the ashes of Australian cricket".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is not clear whether that "tiny silver urn" is the same as the small terracotta urn given to <a href="/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club">Marylebone Cricket Club</a> (MCC) by Bligh's widow after his death in 1927. </p><p><a href="/wiki/The_Ashes_urn" title="The Ashes urn">The Ashes urn</a> has never been the official trophy of the series, having been a personal gift to Bligh,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but replicas of the urn have often been held aloft by the winning team as a symbol of their victory. Since the <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1998%E2%80%9399" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1998–99">1998–99 Ashes series</a>, the Ashes Trophy, a <a href="/wiki/Waterford_Crystal" title="Waterford Crystal">Waterford Crystal</a> trophy modelled on the Ashes urn, has been presented to the winners of the series. Irrespective of which side holds the trophy, the original urn remains in the MCC Museum at <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a>. It has been taken to Australia twice to be put on touring display, as part of the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Bicentenary" title="Australian Bicentenary">Australian Bicentenary</a> celebrations in 1988 and to accompany the <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_2006%E2%80%9307" title="English cricket team in Australia in 2006–07">Ashes series in 2006–07</a>. </p><p>Ashes series have usually consisted of five Tests, hosted in turn by England and Australia approximately every two years. The Ashes are regarded as being held by the team that most recently won the series. If the series is drawn, the team that currently holds the Ashes "retains" the trophy. </p><p>There have been <a href="/wiki/List_of_Ashes_series" title="List of Ashes series">73 Ashes series</a>. Australia have won 34 and retained six times from draws (40); England have won 32 and retained once (33). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1882_origins">1882 origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: 1882 origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1882" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1882">Australian cricket team in England in 1882</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ranji_1897_page_143_F._R._Spofforth,_the_demon_bowler.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Ranji_1897_page_143_F._R._Spofforth%2C_the_demon_bowler.jpg/170px-Ranji_1897_page_143_F._R._Spofforth%2C_the_demon_bowler.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Ranji_1897_page_143_F._R._Spofforth%2C_the_demon_bowler.jpg/255px-Ranji_1897_page_143_F._R._Spofforth%2C_the_demon_bowler.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Ranji_1897_page_143_F._R._Spofforth%2C_the_demon_bowler.jpg/340px-Ranji_1897_page_143_F._R._Spofforth%2C_the_demon_bowler.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1365" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Fred_Spofforth" title="Fred Spofforth">Fred Spofforth</a>, "The Demon Bowler", was instrumental in Australia's 1882 victory over England with 14 wickets for 90.</figcaption></figure> <p>The first <a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test match</a> between England and Australia was played in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>, Australia, <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_and_New_Zealand_in_1876%E2%80%9377" title="English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77">in 1877</a>, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882. On their <a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_and_the_United_States_in_1882" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian cricket team in England and the United States in 1882">tour of England</a> that year the Australians played just one Test, at <a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">the Oval</a> in London. It was a low-scoring affair on a difficult <a href="/wiki/Cricket_pitch" title="Cricket pitch">wicket</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Australia made a mere 63 runs in their first <a href="/wiki/Innings" title="Innings">innings</a>, and England, led by <a href="/wiki/A._N._Hornby" title="A. N. Hornby">A. N. Hornby</a>, took a 38-run lead with a total of 101. In their second innings, Australia, boosted by a spectacular 55 runs off 60 deliveries from <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Massie" title="Hugh Massie">Hugh Massie</a>, managed 122, which left England only 85 runs to win. The Australians were greatly demoralised by the manner of their second-innings collapse, but fast bowler <a href="/wiki/Fred_Spofforth" title="Fred Spofforth">Fred Spofforth</a>, spurred on by the <a href="/wiki/Gamesmanship" title="Gamesmanship">gamesmanship</a> of his opponents, in particular <a href="/wiki/W._G._Grace" title="W. G. Grace">W. G. Grace</a>, refused to give in. "This thing can be done," he declared. Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory. </p><p>When <a href="/wiki/Ted_Peate" title="Ted Peate">Ted Peate</a>, England's last batsman, came to the crease, his side needed just ten runs to win, but Peate managed only two before he was bowled by <a href="/wiki/Harry_Boyle_(cricketer)" title="Harry Boyle (cricketer)">Harry Boyle</a>. An astonished Oval crowd fell silent, struggling to believe that England could possibly have lost on home soil. When it finally sank in, the crowd swarmed onto the field, cheering loudly and chairing Boyle and Spofforth to the pavilion. </p><p>When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Studd" title="Charles Studd">Charles Studd</a> (one of the best batsmen in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists), to get the runs. Peate humorously replied, "I had no confidence in Mr Studd, sir, so thought I had better do my best."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <i><a href="/wiki/Punch_(magazine)" title="Punch (magazine)">Punch</a></i> on Saturday, 9 September. The first verse, quoted most frequently, reads: </p> <blockquote> <div class="poem"> <p>Well done, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cornstalk" class="extiw" title="wikt:cornstalk">Cornstalks</a>! Whipt us<br /> Fair and square,<br /> Was it luck that tript us?<br /> Was it scare?<br /> Kangaroo Land's 'Demon', or our own<br /> Want of 'devil', coolness, nerve, backbone? </p> </div></blockquote> <p>On 31 August, in the <a href="/wiki/C._W._Alcock" class="mw-redirect" title="C. W. Alcock">Charles Alcock</a>-edited magazine <i>Cricket: A Weekly Record of The Game</i>, there appeared a mock obituary: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>SACRED TO THE MEMORY<br /> OF<br /> ENGLAND'S SUPREMACY IN THE<br /> CRICKET-FIELD<br /> WHICH EXPIRED<br /> ON THE 29TH DAY OF AUGUST, AT THE OVAL<br /> "ITS END WAS PEATE" </p> </div></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DeathofEnglishCricket.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/DeathofEnglishCricket.jpg/220px-DeathofEnglishCricket.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/DeathofEnglishCricket.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="288" data-file-height="233" /></a><figcaption>The death notice that appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sporting_Times" title="The Sporting Times">The Sporting Times</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>On 2 September a more celebrated mock obituary, written by <a href="/wiki/Reginald_Shirley_Brooks" title="Reginald Shirley Brooks">Reginald Shirley Brooks</a>, appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sporting_Times" title="The Sporting Times">The Sporting Times</a></i>. It read: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>In Affectionate Remembrance<br /> of<br /> ENGLISH CRICKET,<br /> which died at the Oval<br /> on<br /> 29th August, 1882,<br /> Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing<br /> friends and acquaintances.<br /> <br /> R.I.P.<br /> <br /> N.B.—The body will be cremated and the<br /> ashes taken to Australia. </p> </div></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Ivo_Bligh,_8th_Earl_of_Darnley" title="Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley">Ivo Bligh</a> promised that on the <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1882%E2%80%9383" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1882–83">1882–83 tour of Australia</a>, he would, as England's captain, "recover those Ashes". He spoke of them several times over the course of the tour, and the Australian media quickly caught on. The three-match series resulted in a two-one win to England, notwithstanding a fourth match, won by the Australians, whose status remains a matter of ardent dispute.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 20 years following Bligh's campaign the term "the Ashes" largely disappeared from public use. There is no indication that this was the accepted name for the series, at least not in England. The term became popular again in Australia first, when <a href="/wiki/George_Giffen" title="George Giffen">George Giffen</a>, in his memoirs (<i>With Bat and Ball</i>, 1899), used the term as if it were well known.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The true and global revitalisation of interest in the concept dates from 1903, when <a href="/wiki/Plum_Warner" title="Plum Warner">Pelham Warner</a> took a team to Australia with the promise that he would regain "the ashes". As had been the case on Bligh's tour 20 years before, the Australian media latched fervently onto the term and, this time, it stuck. Having fulfilled his promise, Warner published a book entitled <i>How We Recovered the Ashes</i>. Although the origins of the term are not referred to in the text, the title served (along with the general hype created in Australia) to revive public interest in the legend. The first mention of "the Ashes" in <i><a href="/wiki/Wisden_Cricketers%27_Almanack" title="Wisden Cricketers' Almanack">Wisden Cricketers' Almanack</a></i> occurs in 1905, while <i>Wisden'</i>s first account of the legend is in the 1922 edition. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Urn">Urn</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Urn"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Ashes_urn" title="The Ashes urn">The Ashes urn</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg/220px-Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg/330px-Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg/440px-Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1651" /></a><figcaption>The earliest published photo of <a href="/wiki/The_Ashes_urn" title="The Ashes urn">the Ashes urn</a>, from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Illustrated_London_News" title="The Illustrated London News">The Illustrated London News</a></i>, 1921</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rupertswood_mansion_side_angle_shot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Rupertswood_mansion_side_angle_shot.jpg/220px-Rupertswood_mansion_side_angle_shot.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Rupertswood_mansion_side_angle_shot.jpg/330px-Rupertswood_mansion_side_angle_shot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Rupertswood_mansion_side_angle_shot.jpg/440px-Rupertswood_mansion_side_angle_shot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Rupertswood" title="Rupertswood">Rupertswood</a> outside Melbourne, where the urn was presented to Bligh</figcaption></figure> <p>It took many years before the contests between England and Australia were consistently called "The Ashes", and so there was no concept of either a trophy or a physical representation of the ashes. As late as 1925, the following verse appeared in <i>The Cricketers Annual</i>: </p> <blockquote> <div class="poem"> <p>So here's to Chapman, Hendren and Hobbs,<br /> Gilligan, Woolley and Hearne<br /> May they bring back to the Motherland,<br /> The ashes which have no urn! </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Nevertheless, several attempts had been made to embody the Ashes in a physical memorial. Examples include one presented to Warner in 1904, another to Australian captain M. A. Noble in 1909, and another to Australian captain W. M. Woodfull in 1934. </p><p>The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882–83 tour. The precise nature of the origin of <a href="/wiki/The_Ashes_urn" title="The Ashes urn">this urn</a> is a matter of dispute. Based on a statement by Darnley in 1894, it was believed that a group of <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victorian</a> ladies, including Darnley's later wife <a href="/wiki/Florence_Bligh,_Countess_of_Darnley" title="Florence Bligh, Countess of Darnley">Florence Morphy</a>, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883. More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Joy Munns<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_John_Clarke" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir William John Clarke">Sir William Clarke</a>, at his property "<a href="/wiki/Rupertswood" title="Rupertswood">Rupertswood</a>", in <a href="/wiki/Sunbury,_Victoria" title="Sunbury, Victoria">Sunbury, Victoria</a>. This was before the matches had started. The prime evidence for this theory was provided by a descendant of Clarke. </p><p>In August 1926 Ivo Bligh (now Lord Darnley) displayed the Ashes urn at the <i><a href="/wiki/Morning_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Morning Post">Morning Post</a></i> Decorative Art Exhibition held in the Central Hall, Westminster. He made the following statement about how he was given the urn:<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>When in the autumn the English Eleven went to Australia it was said that they had come to Australia to "fetch" the ashes. England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven.</p></blockquote> <p>A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon. Her speech was reported by the <i>Times</i> as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket "whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia". Her husband, then Ivo Bligh, took a team to Australia in the following year. Punch had a poem containing the words "When Ivo comes back with the urn" and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband's (Ivo Bligh's) hands. He had always regarded it as a great treasure.</p></blockquote> <p>There is another statement which is not totally clear made by Lord Darnley in 1921 about the timing of the presentation of the urn. He was interviewed in his home at Cobham Hall by <a href="/wiki/Montague_Grover" title="Montague Grover">Montague Grover</a> and the report of this interview was as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.</p></blockquote> <p>He made a similar statement in 1926. The report of this statement in the <i>Brisbane Courier</i> was as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The proudest possession of Lord Darnley is an earthenware urn containing the ashes which were presented to him by Melbourne residents when he captained the Englishmen in 1882. Though the team did not win, the urn containing the ashes was sent to him just before leaving Melbourne.</p></blockquote> <p>The contents of the urn are also problematic; they were variously reported to be the remains of a stump, bail or the outer casing of a ball, but in 1998 Darnley's 82-year-old daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law's veil, casting a further layer of doubt on the matter. However, during the tour of Australia in 2006/7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now "95% certain" that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail. Speaking on Channel Nine TV on 25 November 2006, he said x-rays of the urn had shown the pedestal and handles were cracked, and repair work had to be carried out. The urn is made of <a href="/wiki/Terracotta" title="Terracotta">terracotta</a> and is about 6 inches (150 mm) tall and may originally have been a perfume jar. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ashes_song.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Ashes_song.jpg/220px-Ashes_song.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="372" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Ashes_song.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="289" data-file-height="489" /></a><figcaption>The full version of the song from the <i><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Punch" title="Melbourne Punch">Melbourne Punch</a></i>, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn</figcaption></figure> <p>A label containing a six-line verse is pasted on the urn. This is the fourth verse of a song-lyric published in the <i><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Punch" title="Melbourne Punch">Melbourne Punch</a></i> on 1 February 1883: </p> <blockquote> <div class="poem"> <p>When <a href="/wiki/Ivo_Bligh,_8th_Earl_of_Darnley" title="Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley">Ivo</a> goes back with the urn, the urn;<br /> <a href="/wiki/Studd_brothers" title="Studd brothers">Studds</a>, <a href="/wiki/A_G_Steel" class="mw-redirect" title="A G Steel">Steel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Read" title="Walter Read">Read</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Tylecote" title="Edward Tylecote">Tylecote</a> return, return;<br /> The <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_the_welkin_ring" class="extiw" title="wikt:make the welkin ring">welkin</a> will ring loud,<br /> The great crowd will feel proud,<br /> Seeing <a href="/wiki/Dick_Barlow" title="Dick Barlow">Barlow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Billy_Bates" title="Billy Bates">Bates</a> with the urn, the urn;<br /> And the rest coming home with the urn. </p> </div></blockquote> <p>In February 1883, just before the disputed Fourth Test, a velvet bag made by Mrs Ann Fletcher, the daughter of Joseph Hines Clarke and Marion Wright, both of <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>, was given to Bligh to contain the urn. During Darnley's lifetime there was little public knowledge of the urn, and no record of a published photograph exists before 1921. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Illustrated_London_News" title="The Illustrated London News">The Illustrated London News</a></i> published this photo in January 1921 (shown above). When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the <a href="/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club">Marylebone Cricket Club</a> and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes. MCC first displayed the urn in the Long Room at <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a> and since 1953 in the MCC Cricket Museum at the ground. MCC's wish for it to be seen by as wide a range of cricket enthusiasts as possible has led to its being mistaken for an official trophy. It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match. </p><p>Because the urn itself is so delicate, it has been allowed to travel to Australia only twice. The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Bicentenary" title="Australian Bicentenary">Australian Bicentenary</a> celebrations; the second was for the 2006/7 Ashes series.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The urn arrived on 17 October 2006, going on display at the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Sydney" title="Museum of Sydney">Museum of Sydney</a>. It then toured to other states, with the final appearance at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery on 21 January 2007. </p><p>In the 1990s, given Australia's long dominance of the Ashes and the popular acceptance of the Darnley urn as "the Ashes", the idea was mooted that the victorious team should be awarded the urn as a trophy and allowed to retain it until the next series. As its condition is fragile and it is a prized exhibit at the MCC Cricket Museum, the MCC would not agree. Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Darnley" title="Earl of Darnley">Earldom of Darnley</a>, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping. </p><p>As a compromise, the MCC commissioned a larger replica of the urn in <a href="/wiki/Waterford_Crystal" title="Waterford Crystal">Waterford Crystal</a>, known as the Ashes Trophy, to award to the winning team of each series starting with the <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1998%E2%80%9399" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1998–99">1998–99 Ashes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This did little to diminish the status of the Darnley urn as the most important icon in cricket, the symbol of this old and keenly fought contest. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Series_and_matches">Series and matches</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Series and matches"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Ashes_series" title="List of Ashes series">List of Ashes series</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quest_to_"recover_those_ashes""><span id="Quest_to_.22recover_those_ashes.22"></span>Quest to "recover those ashes"</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Quest to "recover those ashes""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Test_cricket_from_1877_to_1883#The_Ashes_legend" title="History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883">History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883 § The Ashes legend</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ivo_Bligh_Vanity_Fair_7_April_1904.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Ivo_Bligh_Vanity_Fair_7_April_1904.jpg/170px-Ivo_Bligh_Vanity_Fair_7_April_1904.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Ivo_Bligh_Vanity_Fair_7_April_1904.jpg/255px-Ivo_Bligh_Vanity_Fair_7_April_1904.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Ivo_Bligh_Vanity_Fair_7_April_1904.jpg/340px-Ivo_Bligh_Vanity_Fair_7_April_1904.jpg 2x" data-file-width="492" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>The Honourable Ivo Bligh</figcaption></figure> <p>Later in 1882, following the famous Australian victory at The Oval, <a href="/wiki/Ivo_Bligh,_8th_Earl_of_Darnley" title="Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley">Bligh</a> led an England team to Australia, as he said, to "recover those ashes". Publicity surrounding the series was intense, and it was at some time during this series that the Ashes urn was crafted. Australia won the First Test by <a href="/wiki/Result_(cricket)" title="Result (cricket)">nine wickets</a>, but in the next two England were victorious. At the end of the Third Test, England were generally considered to have "won back the Ashes" 2–1. A fourth match was played, against a "United Australian XI", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882–83 series. It <i>is</i> counted as a Test, but as a standalone. This match ended in a victory for Australia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1884_to_1896">1884 to 1896</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1884 to 1896"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After Bligh's victory, there was an extended period of English dominance. The tours generally had fewer Tests in the 1880s and 1890s than people have grown accustomed to in more recent years, the first five-Test series taking place only in 1894–95. England lost only four Ashes Tests in the 1880s out of 23 played, and they won all the seven series contested. </p><p>There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country (in 1887–88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia) and popularity with the fans varied. The 1890s games were more closely fought, Australia taking its first series win since 1882 with a 2–1 victory in 1891–92. But England dominated, winning the next three series to 1896 despite continuing player disputes. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1894-95" class="mw-redirect" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1894-95">1894–95</a> series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on. Australia had scored a massive 586 (<a href="/wiki/Syd_Gregory" title="Syd Gregory">Syd Gregory</a> 201, <a href="/wiki/George_Giffen" title="George Giffen">George Giffen</a> 161) and then dismissed England for 325. But England responded with 437 and then dramatically dismissed Australia for 166 with <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Peel" title="Bobby Peel">Bobby Peel</a> taking 6 for 67. At the close of the second last day's play, Australia were 113–2, needing only 64 more runs. But heavy rain fell overnight and next morning the two slow left-arm bowlers, Peel and <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Briggs_(cricketer)" title="Johnny Briggs (cricketer)">Johnny Briggs</a>, were all but unplayable. England went on to win the series 3–2 after it had been all square before the Final Test, which England won by 6 wickets. The English heroes were Peel, with 27 wickets in the series at an average of 26.70, and <a href="/wiki/Tom_Richardson_(cricketer)" title="Tom Richardson (cricketer)">Tom Richardson</a>, with 32 at 26.53. </p><p>In 1896, England under the captaincy of <a href="/wiki/W._G._Grace" title="W. G. Grace">W. G. Grace</a> won the series 2–1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1897_to_1902">1897 to 1902</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1897 to 1902"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Australia resoundingly won the 1897–98 series by 4–1 under the captaincy of <a href="/wiki/Harry_Trott" title="Harry Trott">Harry Trott</a>. His successor <a href="/wiki/Joe_Darling" title="Joe Darling">Joe Darling</a> won the next three series in 1899, 1901–02, and the <a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1902" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1902">classic 1902 series</a>, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket. </p><p>Five matches were played in 1902 but the first two were drawn after being hit by bad weather. In the First Test (the first played at <a href="/wiki/Edgbaston_Cricket_Ground" title="Edgbaston Cricket Ground">Edgbaston</a>), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 (<a href="/wiki/Wilfred_Rhodes" title="Wilfred Rhodes">Wilfred Rhodes</a> 7/17) and reduced them to 46–2 when they followed on. Australia won the Third and Fourth Tests at <a href="/wiki/Bramall_Lane" title="Bramall Lane">Bramall Lane</a> and <a href="/wiki/Old_Trafford_Cricket_Ground" title="Old Trafford Cricket Ground">Old Trafford</a> respectively. At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after <a href="/wiki/Victor_Trumper" title="Victor Trumper">Victor Trumper</a> had scored 104 on a "bad wicket", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day. England won the last Test at <a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">The Oval</a> by one wicket. Chasing 263 to win, they slumped to 48–5 before <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Jessop" title="Gilbert Jessop">Gilbert Jessop</a>'s 104 gave them a chance. He reached his hundred in just 75 minutes. The last-wicket pair of <a href="/wiki/George_Herbert_Hirst" class="mw-redirect" title="George Herbert Hirst">George Hirst</a> and Rhodes were required to score 15 runs for victory. When Rhodes joined him, Hirst reportedly said: "We'll get them in singles, Wilfred." In fact, they scored thirteen singles and a two.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The period of Darling's captaincy saw the emergence of outstanding Australian players such as Trumper, <a href="/wiki/Warwick_Armstrong" title="Warwick Armstrong">Warwick Armstrong</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Kelly_(cricketer)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Kelly (cricketer)">James Kelly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monty_Noble" title="Monty Noble">Monty Noble</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clem_Hill" title="Clem Hill">Clem Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Trumble" title="Hugh Trumble">Hugh Trumble</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Jones_(Australian_sportsman)" title="Ernie Jones (Australian sportsman)">Ernie Jones</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reviving_the_legend">Reviving the legend</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Reviving the legend"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After what the <a href="/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club">MCC</a> saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903–04. England won it against the odds, and <a href="/wiki/Plum_Warner" title="Plum Warner">Plum Warner</a>, the England captain, wrote up his version of the tour in his book <i>How We Recovered The Ashes</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The title of this book revived the Ashes legend and it was after this that England v Australia series were customarily referred to as "The Ashes". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1905_to_1912">1905 to 1912</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1905 to 1912"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>England and Australia were evenly matched until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Five more series took place between 1905 and 1912. In 1905, England's captain <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Jackson_(cricketer)" title="Stanley Jackson (cricketer)">Stanley Jackson</a> not only won the series 2–0, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages. Monty Noble led Australia to victory in both 1907–08 and 1909. Then England won in 1911–12 by four matches to one. <a href="/wiki/Jack_Hobbs" title="Jack Hobbs">Jack Hobbs</a> establishing himself as England's first-choice opening batsman with three centuries, while <a href="/wiki/Frank_Foster_(cricketer)" title="Frank Foster (cricketer)">Frank Foster</a> (32 wickets at 21.62) and <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Barnes" title="Sydney Barnes">Sydney Barnes</a> (34 wickets at 22.88) formed a formidable bowling partnership. </p><p>England retained the Ashes when it won the <a href="/wiki/1912_Triangular_Tournament" title="1912 Triangular Tournament">1912 Triangular Tournament</a>, which also featured <a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_cricket_team" title="South Africa national cricket team">South Africa</a>. The Australian touring party had been severely weakened by a <a href="/wiki/Big_Six_cricket_dispute_of_1912" title="Big Six cricket dispute of 1912">dispute</a> between the board and players that caused <a href="/wiki/Clem_Hill" title="Clem Hill">Clem Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Victor_Trumper" title="Victor Trumper">Victor Trumper</a>, Warwick Armstrong, <a href="/wiki/Tibby_Cotter" title="Tibby Cotter">Tibby Cotter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sammy_Carter" title="Sammy Carter">Sammy Carter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vernon_Ransford" title="Vernon Ransford">Vernon Ransford</a> to be omitted.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1920_to_1933">1920 to 1933</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1920 to 1933"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the war, Australia took firm control of both the Ashes and world cricket. For the first time, the tactic of using two express bowlers in tandem paid off as <a href="/wiki/Jack_Gregory_(cricketer)" title="Jack Gregory (cricketer)">Jack Gregory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ted_McDonald" title="Ted McDonald">Ted McDonald</a> crippled the English batting on a regular basis. Australia recorded overwhelming victories both in England and on home soil. It won the first eight matches in succession including a 5–0 <a href="/wiki/Whitewash_(sport)" title="Whitewash (sport)">whitewash</a> in <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1920-21" class="mw-redirect" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1920-21">1920–1921</a> at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team. </p><p>The ruthless and belligerent Armstrong led his team back to England in 1921 where his men lost only two games late in the tour to narrowly miss out of being the first team to complete a tour of England without defeat. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herbert_Sutcliffe_1924.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Herbert_Sutcliffe_1924.jpg/220px-Herbert_Sutcliffe_1924.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Herbert_Sutcliffe_1924.jpg/330px-Herbert_Sutcliffe_1924.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Herbert_Sutcliffe_1924.jpg 2x" data-file-width="403" data-file-height="234" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Sutcliffe" title="Herbert Sutcliffe">Herbert Sutcliffe</a> sweeps <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Mailey" title="Arthur Mailey">Arthur Mailey</a> during the first Ashes Test in Sydney, 1924.</figcaption></figure> <p>England won only one Test out of 15 from the end of the war until 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auslist_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auslist-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a rain-hit series in 1926, England managed to eke out a 1–0 victory with a win in the final Test at The Oval. Because the series was at stake, the match was to be "timeless", i.e., played to a finish. Australia had a narrow first innings lead of 22. Jack Hobbs and <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Sutcliffe" title="Herbert Sutcliffe">Herbert Sutcliffe</a> took the score to 49–0 at the end of the second day, a lead of 27. Heavy rain fell overnight, and next day the pitch soon developed into a traditional sticky wicket. England seemed doomed to be bowled out cheaply and to lose the match. In spite of the very difficult batting conditions, however, Hobbs and Sutcliffe took their partnership to 172 before Hobbs was out for exactly 100. Sutcliffe went on to make 161 and England won the game comfortably.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Australian captain <a href="/wiki/Herbie_Collins" title="Herbie Collins">Herbie Collins</a> was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match. </p><p>Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Macartney" title="Charlie Macartney">Charlie Macartney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Warren_Bardsley" title="Warren Bardsley">Warren Bardsley</a> all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928–29 series. </p><p>Despite the debut of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Bradman" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Bradman">Donald Bradman</a>, the inexperienced Australians, led by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Ryder_(cricketer)" title="Jack Ryder (cricketer)">Jack Ryder</a>, were heavily defeated, losing 4–1.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> England had a very strong batting side, with <a href="/wiki/Wally_Hammond" title="Wally Hammond">Wally Hammond</a> contributing 905 runs at an average of 113.12, and Hobbs, Sutcliffe and <a href="/wiki/Patsy_Hendren" title="Patsy Hendren">Patsy Hendren</a> all scoring heavily; the bowling was more than adequate, without being outstanding. </p><p>In 1930, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Woodfull" title="Bill Woodfull">Bill Woodfull</a> led an extremely inexperienced team to England. </p><p>Bradman fulfilled his promise in the 1930 series when he scored 974 runs at 139.14, which remains a world record Test series aggregate. A modest Bradman can be heard in a 1930 recording saying "I have always endeavoured to do my best for the side, and the few centuries that have come my way have been achieved in the hope of winning matches. My one idea when going into bat was to make runs for Australia."<sup id="cite_ref-Don_Bradman_on_australianscreen_online_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Don_Bradman_on_australianscreen_online-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Headingley_Cricket_Ground" title="Headingley Cricket Ground">Headingley</a> Test, he made 334, reaching 309* at the end of the first day, including a century before lunch. Bradman himself thought that his 254 in the preceding match, at <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a>, was a better innings. England managed to stay in contention until the deciding final Test at The Oval, but yet another double hundred by Bradman, and 7/92 by <a href="/wiki/Percy_Hornibrook" title="Percy Hornibrook">Percy Hornibrook</a> in England's second innings, enabled Australia to win by an innings and take the series 2–1. <a href="/wiki/Clarrie_Grimmett" title="Clarrie Grimmett">Clarrie Grimmett</a>'s 29 wickets at 31.89 for Australia in this high-scoring series were also important. </p><p>Australia had one of the strongest batting line-ups ever in the early 1930s, with Bradman, <a href="/wiki/Archie_Jackson" title="Archie Jackson">Archie Jackson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stan_McCabe" title="Stan McCabe">Stan McCabe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Woodfull" title="Bill Woodfull">Bill Woodfull</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Ponsford" title="Bill Ponsford">Bill Ponsford</a> and Jack Fingleton. It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932–33 captain <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Jardine" title="Douglas Jardine">Douglas Jardine</a> to adopt the tactic of fast <a href="/wiki/Leg_theory" title="Leg theory">leg theory</a>, better known as <a href="/wiki/Bodyline" title="Bodyline">Bodyline</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg/220px-4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg/330px-4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg/440px-4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg 2x" data-file-width="592" data-file-height="316" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bill_Woodfull" title="Bill Woodfull">Bill Woodfull</a> evades a ball from <a href="/wiki/Harold_Larwood" title="Harold Larwood">Harold Larwood</a> with <a href="/wiki/Bodyline" title="Bodyline">Bodyline</a> field settings.</figcaption></figure> <p>Jardine instructed his <a href="/wiki/Fast_bowling" title="Fast bowling">fast bowlers</a>, most notably <a href="/wiki/Harold_Larwood" title="Harold Larwood">Harold Larwood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Voce" title="Bill Voce">Bill Voce</a>, to bowl at the bodies of the Australian batsmen, with the goal of forcing them to defend their bodies with their bats, thus providing easy catches to a stacked <a href="/wiki/Leg_side" title="Leg side">leg-side</a> field. Jardine insisted that the tactic was legitimate and called it "leg theory" but it was widely disparaged by its opponents, who dubbed it "Bodyline" (from "on the line of the body"). Although England decisively won the Ashes 4–1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the <a href="/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club">MCC</a> eventually changed the <a href="/wiki/Laws_of_cricket" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws of cricket">Laws of cricket</a> to curtail the number of leg side fielders. </p><p>Jardine's comment was: "I've not travelled 6,000 miles to make friends. I'm here to win the Ashes".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some of the Australians wanted to use Bodyline in retaliation, but Woodfull flatly refused. He famously told England manager <a href="/wiki/Pelham_Warner" class="mw-redirect" title="Pelham Warner">Pelham Warner</a>, "There are two teams out there. One is playing cricket; the other is making no attempt to do so" after the latter had come into the Australian rooms to express sympathy after a Larwood bouncer had struck the Australian skipper in the heart and felled him.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1934_to_1953">1934 to 1953</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1934 to 1953"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the batting-friendly <a href="/wiki/Cricket_pitch" title="Cricket pitch">wickets</a> that prevailed in the late 1930s, most Tests up to the Second World War still gave results. It should be borne in mind that Tests in Australia prior to the war were all played to a finish, with many batting records set during this period. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The 1934 Ashes series began with the notable absence of Larwood, Voce and Jardine. The MCC had made it clear, in light of the revelations of the bodyline series, that these players would not face Australia. The MCC, although it had earlier condoned and encouraged<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> bodyline tactics in the 1932–33 series, laid the blame on Larwood when relations turned sour. Larwood was forced by the MCC to either apologise or be removed from the Test side. He went for the latter. </p><p>Australia recovered the Ashes in 1934 and held them until 1953, though no Test cricket was played during the Second World War. </p><p>As in 1930, the 1934 series was decided in the final Test at The Oval. Australia, batting first, posted a massive 701 in the first innings. Bradman (244) and Ponsford (266) were in record-breaking form with a partnership of 451 for the second wicket. England eventually faced a massive 707-run target for victory and failed, Australia winning the series 2–1.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This made Woodfull the only captain to regain the Ashes and he retired upon his return to Australia. </p><p>In 1936–37 Bradman succeeded Woodfull as Australian captain. He started badly, losing the first two Tests heavily after Australia were caught on <a href="/wiki/Sticky_wicket" title="Sticky wicket">sticky wickets</a>. However, the Australians fought back and Bradman won his first series in charge 3–2. </p><p>The 1938 series was a high-scoring affair with two high-scoring draws, resulting in a 1–1 result, Australia retaining the Ashes. After the first two matches ended in stalemate and the Third Test at Old Trafford never started due to rain, Australia then scraped home by five wickets inside three days in a low-scoring match at Headingley to retain the urn. In the timeless Fifth Test at The Oval, the highlight was <a href="/wiki/Len_Hutton" title="Len Hutton">Len Hutton</a>'s then world-record score of 364 as England made 903-7 declared. Bradman and <a href="/wiki/Jack_Fingleton" title="Jack Fingleton">Jack Fingleton</a> injured themselves during Hutton's marathon effort, and with only nine men, Australia fell to defeat by an innings and 579 runs,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the heaviest in Test history. </p><p>The Ashes resumed after the war when England toured in 1946–47 and, as in 1920–21, found that Australia had made the better post-war recovery. Still captained by Bradman and now featuring the potent new-ball partnership of <a href="/wiki/Ray_Lindwall" title="Ray Lindwall">Ray Lindwall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Keith_Miller" title="Keith Miller">Keith Miller</a>, Australia were convincing 3–0 winners. </p><p>Aged 38 and having been unwell during the war, Bradman had been reluctant to play. He batted unconvincingly and reached 28 when he hit a ball to <a href="/wiki/Jack_Ikin" title="Jack Ikin">Jack Ikin</a>; England believed it was a catch, but Bradman stood his ground, believing it to be a bump ball. The umpire ruled in the Australian captain's favour and he appeared to regain his fluency of yesteryear, scoring 187. Australia promptly seized the initiative, won the First Test convincingly and inaugurated a dominant post-war era. The controversy over the Ikin catch was one of the biggest disputes of the era. </p><p>In 1948, Australia set new standards, completely outplaying its hosts to win 4–0 with one draw. This <a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1948" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1948">Australian team</a>, led by Bradman, who turned 40 during his final tour of England, has gone down in history as <i>The Invincibles</i>. Playing 34 matches on tour—three of which were not first-class—and including the five Tests, they remained unbeaten, winning 27 and drawing 7. </p><p>Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Test,_1948_Ashes_series" title="Second Test, 1948 Ashes series">Second</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Test,_1948_Ashes_series" title="Fourth Test, 1948 Ashes series">Fourth Tests</a> at Lord's and Headingley respectively. Before a record attendance of spectators at Headingley, Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory. </p><p>The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Test,_1948_Ashes_series" title="Fifth Test, 1948 Ashes series">Fifth Test</a> at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(cricket)" title="Batting average (cricket)">batting average</a> of exactly 100. However, Bradman made a second-ball duck, bowled by an <a href="/wiki/Eric_Hollies" title="Eric Hollies">Eric Hollies</a> googly<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that sent him into retirement with a career average of 99.94. </p><p>Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by <a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Hassett" title="Lindsay Hassett">Lindsay Hassett</a>, who led the team to a 4–1 series victory in 1950–51. The series was not as one-sided as the number of wins suggest, with several tight matches. </p><p>The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1–0, having narrowly avoided defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley. This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen <a href="/wiki/Denis_Compton" title="Denis Compton">Denis Compton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_May_(cricketer)" title="Peter May (cricketer)">Peter May</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Graveney" title="Tom Graveney">Tom Graveney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colin_Cowdrey" title="Colin Cowdrey">Colin Cowdrey</a>, bowlers <a href="/wiki/Fred_Trueman" title="Fred Trueman">Fred Trueman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brian_Statham" title="Brian Statham">Brian Statham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alec_Bedser" title="Alec Bedser">Alec Bedser</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Laker" title="Jim Laker">Jim Laker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Lock" title="Tony Lock">Tony Lock</a>, wicket-keeper <a href="/wiki/Godfrey_Evans" title="Godfrey Evans">Godfrey Evans</a> and all-rounder <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Bailey" title="Trevor Bailey">Trevor Bailey</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1954_to_1971">1954 to 1971</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1954 to 1971"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Peter_May.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Peter_May.jpg/170px-Peter_May.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Peter_May.jpg/255px-Peter_May.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Peter_May.jpg/340px-Peter_May.jpg 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="381" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Peter_May_(cricketer)" title="Peter May (cricketer)">Peter May</a> driving <a href="/wiki/Bill_Johnston_(cricketer)" title="Bill Johnston (cricketer)">Bill Johnston</a> on his way to a century at Sydney.</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1954-55" class="mw-redirect" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1954-55">1954–55</a>, Australia's batsmen had no answer to the pace of <a href="/wiki/Frank_Tyson" title="Frank Tyson">Frank Tyson</a> and Statham. After winning the First Test by an innings after being controversially sent in by Hutton, Australia lost its way and England took a hat-trick of victories to win the series 3–1.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A dramatic series in 1956 saw a record that will probably never be beaten: off-spinner <a href="/wiki/Jim_Laker" title="Jim Laker">Jim Laker</a>'s monumental effort at <a href="/wiki/Old_Trafford_Cricket_Ground" title="Old Trafford Cricket Ground">Old Trafford</a> when he bowled 68 of 191 overs to take 19 out of 20 possible Australian wickets in the Fourth Test.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out. Bradman rated the team that won the series 2–1 as England's best ever. </p><p>England's dominance was not to last. Australia won 4–0 in 1958–59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper <a href="/wiki/Richie_Benaud" title="Richie Benaud">Richie Benaud</a>, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman <a href="/wiki/Alan_Keith_Davidson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alan Keith Davidson">Alan Davidson</a>, who took 24 wickets at 19.00. The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably <a href="/wiki/Ian_Meckiff" title="Ian Meckiff">Ian Meckiff</a>, whom the English management and media accused of <a href="/wiki/Throwing_(cricket)" title="Throwing (cricket)">illegally throwing</a> Australia to victory. </p><p>In 1961, Australia won a hard-fought series 2–1, their first Ashes series win in England for 13 years. After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed "The Battle of the Ridge" because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series with <a href="/wiki/Richie_Benaud" title="Richie Benaud">Richie Benaud</a> taking 6-70 during the English runchase. </p><p>The tempo of the play changed over the next four series in the 1960s, held in 1962–63, 1964, 1965–66 and 1968. The powerful array of bowlers that both countries boasted in the preceding decade moved into retirement, and their replacements were of lesser quality, making it more difficult to force a result. England failed to win any series during the 1960s, a period dominated by draws as teams found it more prudent to save face than risk losing. Of the 20 Tests played during the four series, Australia won four and England three. As they held the Ashes, Australia's captains <a href="/wiki/Bob_Simpson_(cricketer)" title="Bob Simpson (cricketer)">Bob Simpson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Lawry" title="Bill Lawry">Bill Lawry</a> were happy to adopt safety-first tactics and their strategy of sedate batting saw many draws. During this period, spectator attendances dropped and media condemnation increased, but Simpson and Lawry flatly disregarded the public dissatisfaction. </p><p>It was in the 1960s that the bipolar dominance of England and Australia in world cricket was seriously challenged for the first time. West Indies defeated England twice in the mid-1960s and South Africa, in two series before they were banned for <a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">apartheid</a>, completely outplayed Australia 3–1 and 4–0. Australia had lost 2–1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964–65, the first time it had lost a series to any team other than England. </p><p>In 1970–71, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Illingworth" title="Ray Illingworth">Ray Illingworth</a> led England to a 2–0 win in Australia, mainly due to <a href="/wiki/John_Snow_(cricketer)" title="John Snow (cricketer)">John Snow</a>'s fast bowling, and the prolific batting of <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Boycott" title="Geoffrey Boycott">Geoffrey Boycott</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Edrich" title="John Edrich">John Edrich</a>. It was not until the last session of what was the 7th Test (one match having been abandoned without a ball bowled) that England's success was secured. Lawry was sacked after the Sixth Test after the selectors finally lost patience with Australia's lack of success and dour strategy. Lawry was not informed of the decision privately and heard his fate over the radio.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1972_to_1987">1972 to 1987</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1972 to 1987"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1972 series finished 2–2, with England under Illingworth retaining the Ashes.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1974–75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Thomson" title="Jeff Thomson">Jeff Thomson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Lillee" title="Dennis Lillee">Dennis Lillee</a> wreaked havoc. A 4–1 result was a fair reflection as England were left shell shocked.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> England then lost the 1975 series 0–1, but at least restored some pride under new captain <a href="/wiki/Tony_Greig" title="Tony Greig">Tony Greig</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as <a href="/wiki/Kerry_Packer" title="Kerry Packer">Kerry Packer</a> announced his intention to form <a href="/wiki/World_Series_Cricket" title="World Series Cricket">World Series Cricket</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> WSC affected all Test-playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer; the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed. WSC came after an era during which the duopoly of Australian and English dominance dissipated; the Ashes had long been seen as a cricket world championship but the rise of the West Indies in the late 1970s challenged that view. The West Indies would go on to record resounding Test series wins over Australia and England and dominated world cricket until the 1990s. </p><p>With Greig having joined WSC, England appointed <a href="/wiki/Mike_Brearley" title="Mike Brearley">Mike Brearley</a> as its captain and he enjoyed great success against Australia. Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3–0 and then completed an overwhelming 5–1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978–79. <a href="/wiki/Allan_Border" title="Allan Border">Allan Border</a> made his Test debut for Australia in 1978–79. </p><p>Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1980 and was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Ian_Botham" title="Ian Botham">Ian Botham</a>, who started the <a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1981" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1981">1981 series</a> as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended. After Australia took a 1–0 lead in the first two Tests, Botham was forced to resign or was sacked (depending on the source). Brearley surprisingly agreed to be reappointed before the Third Test at Headingley. This was a remarkable match in which Australia looked certain to take a 2–0 series lead after it had forced England to follow-on 227 runs behind. England, despite being 135 for 7, produced a second innings total of 356, Botham scoring 149*. Chasing just 130, Australia were sensationally dismissed for 111, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Willis" title="Bob Willis">Bob Willis</a> taking 8–43. It was the first time since 1894–95 that a team following on had won a Test match. Under Brearley's leadership, England went on to win the next two matches before a drawn final match at The Oval.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This series became known as 'Botham's Ashes' for his extraordinary feats with both bat and ball, after being dismissed as captain. </p><p>In 1982–83 Australia had <a href="/wiki/Greg_Chappell" title="Greg Chappell">Greg Chappell</a> back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their <a href="/wiki/South_African_rebel_tours" title="South African rebel tours">South African tour rebels</a>, particularly <a href="/wiki/Graham_Gooch" title="Graham Gooch">Graham Gooch</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Emburey" title="John Emburey">John Emburey</a>. Australia went 2–0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs (after a 70-run last wicket stand) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1985, <a href="/wiki/David_Gower" title="David Gower">David Gower</a>'s England team was strengthened by the return of Gooch and Emburey as well as the emergence at international level of <a href="/wiki/Tim_Robinson_(English_cricketer)" title="Tim Robinson (English cricketer)">Tim Robinson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Gatting" title="Mike Gatting">Mike Gatting</a>. Australia, now captained by <a href="/wiki/Allan_Border" title="Allan Border">Allan Border</a>, had itself been weakened by a rebel South African tour, the loss of <a href="/wiki/Terry_Alderman" title="Terry Alderman">Terry Alderman</a> being a particular factor. England won 3–1. </p><p>Despite suffering heavy defeats against the West Indies during the 1980s, England continued to do well in the Ashes. Mike Gatting was the captain in 1986–87 but his team started badly and attracted some criticism.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Then <a href="/wiki/Chris_Broad_(cricketer)" title="Chris Broad (cricketer)">Chris Broad</a> scored three hundreds in successive Tests and bowling successes from <a href="/wiki/Graham_Dilley" title="Graham Dilley">Graham Dilley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gladstone_Small" title="Gladstone Small">Gladstone Small</a> meant England won the series 2–1.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1989_to_2003">1989 to 2003</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 1989 to 2003"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MCG99.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/MCG99.jpg/220px-MCG99.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/MCG99.jpg/330px-MCG99.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/MCG99.jpg/440px-MCG99.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1795" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> <a href="/wiki/Boxing_Day_Test" title="Boxing Day Test">Boxing Day Test</a> 1998</figcaption></figure> <p>The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4–0.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Well led by <a href="/wiki/Allan_Border" title="Allan Border">Allan Border</a>, the team included the young cricketers <a href="/wiki/Mark_Taylor_(cricketer)" title="Mark Taylor (cricketer)">Mark Taylor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Merv_Hughes" title="Merv Hughes">Merv Hughes</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Boon" title="David Boon">David Boon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ian_Healy" title="Ian Healy">Ian Healy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steve_Waugh" title="Steve Waugh">Steve Waugh</a>, who were all to prove long-serving and successful Ashes competitors. England, now led once again by <a href="/wiki/David_Gower" title="David Gower">David Gower</a>, suffered from injuries and poor form. During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a "rebel tour" of South Africa the following winter; three of them (<a href="/wiki/Tim_Robinson_(English_cricketer)" title="Tim Robinson (English cricketer)">Tim Robinson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neil_Foster" title="Neil Foster">Neil Foster</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Emburey" title="John Emburey">John Emburey</a>) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Australia reached a cricketing peak in the 1990s and early 2000s, coupled with a general decline in England's fortunes. After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990–91, 1993, 1994–95, 1997, 1998–99, 2001 and 2002–03 series, all by convincing margins. </p><p>Great Australian players in the early years included batsmen Border, Boon, Taylor and Steve Waugh. The captaincy passed from Border to Taylor in the mid-1990s and then to Steve Waugh before the 2001 series. In the latter part of the 1990s Waugh himself, along with his twin brother <a href="/wiki/Mark_Waugh" title="Mark Waugh">Mark</a>, scored heavily for Australia and fast bowlers <a href="/wiki/Glenn_McGrath" title="Glenn McGrath">Glenn McGrath</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jason_Gillespie" title="Jason Gillespie">Jason Gillespie</a> made a serious impact, especially the former. The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by <a href="/wiki/Ian_Healy" title="Ian Healy">Ian Healy</a> for most of the 1990s and by <a href="/wiki/Adam_Gilchrist" title="Adam Gilchrist">Adam Gilchrist</a> from 2001 to 2006–07. In the 2000s, batsmen <a href="/wiki/Justin_Langer" title="Justin Langer">Justin Langer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Damien_Martyn" title="Damien Martyn">Damien Martyn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Hayden" title="Matthew Hayden">Matthew Hayden</a> became noted players for Australia. But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner <a href="/wiki/Shane_Warne" title="Shane Warne">Shane Warne</a>, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the <a href="/wiki/Ball_of_the_Century" title="Ball of the Century">Ball of the Century</a>. </p><p>Australia's record between 1989 and 2005 had a significant impact on the statistics between the two sides. Before the 1989 series began, the win–loss ratio was almost even, with 87 test wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 tests having been drawn.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 2005 series Australia's test wins had increased to 115 whereas England's had increased to only 93 (with 82 draws).<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the period between 1989 and the beginning of the 2005 series, the two sides had played 43 times; Australia winning 28 times, England 7 times, with 8 draws. Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series. All others were consolation victories when the Ashes had been secured by Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2005_to_2015">2005 to 2015</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 2005 to 2015"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trent_Bridge,_Flintoff_century,_26_Aug_2005.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Trent_Bridge%2C_Flintoff_century%2C_26_Aug_2005.jpg/220px-Trent_Bridge%2C_Flintoff_century%2C_26_Aug_2005.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Trent_Bridge%2C_Flintoff_century%2C_26_Aug_2005.jpg/330px-Trent_Bridge%2C_Flintoff_century%2C_26_Aug_2005.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Trent_Bridge%2C_Flintoff_century%2C_26_Aug_2005.jpg/440px-Trent_Bridge%2C_Flintoff_century%2C_26_Aug_2005.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Flintoff" title="Andrew Flintoff">Flintoff</a> reaches 100 at <a href="/wiki/Trent_Bridge" title="Trent Bridge">Trent Bridge</a> in 2005</figcaption></figure> <p>England were undefeated in Test matches through the 2004 calendar year. This elevated them to second in the <a href="/wiki/ICC_Test_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="ICC Test Championship">ICC Test Championship</a>. Hopes that the <a href="/wiki/2005_Ashes_series" title="2005 Ashes series">2005 Ashes series</a> would be closely fought proved well-founded, the series remaining undecided as the closing session of the final Test began. Experienced journalists including Richie Benaud rated the series as the most exciting in living memory. It has been compared with the great series of the distant past, such as 1894–95 and 1902.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The First Test at <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a> was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest winning margin in Ashes history, and the second-smallest in all Tests. The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw; and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to <a href="/wiki/Follow-on" title="Follow-on">follow-on</a> for the first time in 191 Tests. A draw in the final Test gave England victory in an Ashes series for the first time in 18 years and their first Ashes victory at home since 1985. </p><p>Australia regained the Ashes on its home turf in the <a href="/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_Ashes_series" title="2006–07 Ashes series">2006–07 series</a> with a convincing 5–0 victory, only the second time an Ashes series had been won by that margin. <a href="/wiki/Shane_Warne" title="Shane Warne">Shane Warne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glenn_McGrath" title="Glenn McGrath">Glenn McGrath</a> and <a href="/wiki/Justin_Langer" title="Justin Langer">Justin Langer</a> retired from Test cricket after that series, while <a href="/wiki/Damien_Martyn" title="Damien Martyn">Damien Martyn</a> retired during the series.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ashes_2010-11_Sydney_Test_final_wicket.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Ashes_2010-11_Sydney_Test_final_wicket.jpg/220px-Ashes_2010-11_Sydney_Test_final_wicket.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Ashes_2010-11_Sydney_Test_final_wicket.jpg/330px-Ashes_2010-11_Sydney_Test_final_wicket.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Ashes_2010-11_Sydney_Test_final_wicket.jpg/440px-Ashes_2010-11_Sydney_Test_final_wicket.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Chris_Tremlett" title="Chris Tremlett">Chris Tremlett</a> bowls <a href="/wiki/Michael_Beer_(cricketer)" title="Michael Beer (cricketer)">Michael Beer</a> to complete England's 3–1 Ashes victory on 7 January 2011</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/2009_Ashes_series" title="2009 Ashes series">2009 series</a> began with a tense draw in the First Test at <a href="/wiki/SWALEC_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="SWALEC Stadium">SWALEC Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a>, with England's last-wicket batsmen <a href="/wiki/James_Anderson_(cricketer)" title="James Anderson (cricketer)">James Anderson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Monty_Panesar" title="Monty Panesar">Monty Panesar</a> surviving 69 balls. England then achieved its first Ashes win at Lord's since 1934 to go 1–0 up. After a rain-affected draw at Edgbaston, the fourth match at Headingley was convincingly won by Australia by an innings and 80 runs to level the series. Finally, England won the Fifth Test at <a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">The Oval</a> by a margin of 197 runs to regain the Ashes. <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Flintoff" title="Andrew Flintoff">Andrew Flintoff</a> retired from Test cricket soon afterwards. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_Ashes_series" title="2010–11 Ashes series">2010–11 series</a> was played in Australia. The First Test at Brisbane ended in a draw, but England won the Second Test, at Adelaide, by an innings and 71 runs. Australia came back with a victory at Perth in the Third Test. In the Fourth Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground, England batting second scored 513 to defeat Australia (98 and 258) by an innings and 157 runs. This gave England an unbeatable 2–1 lead in the series and so it retained the Ashes. England went on to win the series 3–1, beating Australia by an innings and 83 runs at Sydney in the Fifth Test, including their highest innings total since 1938 (644). England's series victory was its first on Australian soil for 24 years. The 2010–11 Ashes series was the only one in which a team had won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series. England opener Cook scored 766 runs at average 127.66 in the series, the most dominant batsman in an Ashes series since Bradman in 1930. </p><p>Australia's build-up to the <a href="/wiki/2013_Ashes_series" title="2013 Ashes series">2013 Ashes series</a> was far from ideal. <a href="/wiki/Darren_Lehmann" title="Darren Lehmann">Darren Lehmann</a> took over as coach from <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Arthur" title="Mickey Arthur">Mickey Arthur</a><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> following a string of poor results. A batting line-up weakened by the previous year's retirements of former captain <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Ponting" title="Ricky Ponting">Ricky Ponting</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Hussey" class="mw-redirect" title="Mike Hussey">Mike Hussey</a> was also shorn of opener <a href="/wiki/David_Warner_(cricketer)" title="David Warner (cricketer)">David Warner</a>, who was suspended for the start of the series following an off-field incident.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> England won a closely fought First Test by 14 runs, despite 19-year-old debutant <a href="/wiki/Ashton_Agar" title="Ashton Agar">Ashton Agar</a> making a world-record 98 for a number 11 in the first innings. England then won a very one-sided Second Test by 347 runs while the rain-affected Third Test, held at a newly refurbished Old Trafford, was drawn, ensuring that England retained the Ashes.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> England won the Fourth Test by 74 runs after Australia lost their last eight second-innings wickets for only 86 runs. The final Test was drawn,<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> giving England a 3–0 series win. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Australia_won_the_Ashes_5-0.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Australia_won_the_Ashes_5-0.jpg/240px-Australia_won_the_Ashes_5-0.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Australia_won_the_Ashes_5-0.jpg/360px-Australia_won_the_Ashes_5-0.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Australia_won_the_Ashes_5-0.jpg/480px-Australia_won_the_Ashes_5-0.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3920" data-file-height="2204" /></a><figcaption>Celebrations at the SCG after Australia won the Ashes 5–0 in 2014</figcaption></figure> <p>In the second of two Ashes series held in <a href="/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_Ashes_series" title="2013–14 Ashes series">2013 (the series ended in 2014)</a>, this time hosted by Australia, the home team won the series five test matches to nil. This was the third time Australia has completed a clean sweep (or "whitewash") in Ashes history, a feat never matched by England. All six Australian specialist batsmen scored more runs than any Englishman with 10 centuries among them, with only debutant Ben Stokes scoring a century for England. Mitchell Johnson took 37 English wickets at 13.97 and Ryan Harris 22 wickets at 19.31 in the 5-Test series.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Only Stuart Broad and all-rounder Stokes bowled effectively for England, with their spinner Graeme Swann retiring due to a chronic elbow injury after the decisive Third Test. </p><p>Australia came into the <a href="/wiki/2015_Ashes_series" title="2015 Ashes series">2015 Ashes series</a> in England as favourites to retain the Ashes. Although England won the first Test in Cardiff, Australia won comfortably in the second Test at Lords. In the next two Tests, the Australian batsmen struggled, being bowled out for 136 in the first innings at <a href="/wiki/Edgbaston" title="Edgbaston">Edgbaston</a>, with England proceeding to win by eight wickets. This was followed by Australia being bowled out for 60 as <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Broad" title="Stuart Broad">Stuart Broad</a> took 8 for 15 in the first innings at Trent Bridge, the quickest – in terms of balls faced – a team has been bowled out in the first innings of a Test match. With victory by an innings and 78 runs on the morning of the third day of the Fourth Test, England regained the Ashes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2017_to_present">2017 to present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 2017 to present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the buildup, the <a href="/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_Ashes_series" title="2017–18 Ashes series">2017–18 Ashes series</a> was regarded as a turning point for both sides. Australia were criticised for being too reliant on captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner, while England was said to have a shoddy middle to lower order.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Off the field, England all-rounder <a href="/wiki/Ben_Stokes" title="Ben Stokes">Ben Stokes</a> was ruled out of the side indefinitely due to a police investigation. </p><p>Australia won the first Test match in Brisbane by 10 wickets<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the second Test at Adelaide by 120 runs in the first ever day-night Ashes test match. Australia regained The Ashes with an innings and 41 run win in the third Test at Perth; the final Ashes Test at the WACA Ground.<sup id="cite_ref-reclaim_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reclaim-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to the <a href="/wiki/2019_Ashes_series" title="2019 Ashes series">2019 Ashes series</a>, both teams were considered to have very strong bowling attacks but struggling batting orders. Australia had its top-order batsmen <a href="/wiki/David_Warner_(cricketer)" title="David Warner (cricketer)">David Warner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Smith_(cricketer)" title="Steve Smith (cricketer)">Steve Smith</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cameron_Bancroft" title="Cameron Bancroft">Cameron Bancroft</a> available for international selection after being banned from international cricket for 9–12 months following the <a href="/wiki/2018_Australian_ball-tampering_scandal" title="2018 Australian ball-tampering scandal">ball-tampering scandal</a> in South Africa, during which time <a href="/wiki/India_national_cricket_team" title="India national cricket team">India</a> had won its first ever Test series in Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Australia recovered to win the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_2018%E2%80%9319" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lanka cricket team in Australia in 2018–19">Test series</a> against Sri Lanka 2–0.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite winning the <a href="/wiki/2019_Cricket_World_Cup_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Cricket World Cup Final">Cricket World Cup</a> in July 2019 for the first time, England had also been criticised for its fragile top-order in Tests. The retirement of opener <a href="/wiki/Alastair_Cook" title="Alastair Cook">Alastair Cook</a> in August 2018 ensured potential top-order batsmen <a href="/wiki/Rory_Burns" title="Rory Burns">Rory Burns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Denly" title="Joe Denly">Joe Denly</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jason_Roy" title="Jason Roy">Jason Roy</a> were able to secure a place in the side. Despite losing a Test series 2–1 in their <a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team_in_the_West_Indies_in_2018%E2%80%9319" class="mw-redirect" title="England cricket team in the West Indies in 2018–19">tour of the West Indies</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> England then improved to win the <a href="/wiki/Irish_cricket_team_in_England_in_2019" title="Irish cricket team in England in 2019">one-off Test against Ireland</a>, by 143 runs. The 2019 series was eventually drawn 2–2, with Australia retaining the Ashes. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Ashes_series" title="2021–22 Ashes series">2021-22 Ashes series</a> was played from December 2021 through January 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and featured the first Ashes Test match to be played in Tasmania, at <a href="/wiki/Hobart" title="Hobart">Hobart</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Bellerive_Oval" title="Bellerive Oval">Bellerive Oval</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Australia retained the Ashes in the 2021–22 Ashes series, after comfortably beating England 4–0. </p><p>England were the hosts of the five Test matches of the <a href="/wiki/2023_Ashes_series" title="2023 Ashes series">2023 Ashes series</a>. The series got off to a good start for Australia as they won the first two Tests to go 0–2 up. The hosts won the third Test to put the series at 1-2 for the visitors. England needed to win the fourth Test in a hope to not only level the series but prevent Australia from retaining the Ashes. The match looked good for England to win, but <a href="/wiki/Rain" title="Rain">rain</a> intervened on the last two days and forced a draw, thus Australia retained the Ashes with the series at 1–2 after four Tests.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fifth and final Test was played at <a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">The Oval</a>. During the contest <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Broad" title="Stuart Broad">Stuart Broad</a> announced that he would retire from cricket at the end of the match.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> England went on to win the final Test match to draw the series at 2-2.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summary_of_results_and_statistics">Summary of results and statistics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Summary of results and statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a full listing of all the Ashes series since 1882, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_Ashes_series" title="List of Ashes series">List of Ashes series</a>.</div> <p>In the 140 years since 1883, Australia have held the Ashes for approximately 84.5 years, and England for 55.5 years: </p> <div style="overflow-x: auto;"> <table class="toccolours" style="margin: 0 auto;"> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="timeline-wrapper"><map name="timeline_lspl0i4ckskz2a2t9zeadhywd94ufuy"><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/World_War_2" coords="443,4,496,25" title="World War 2" alt="World War 2" /><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/World_War_1" coords="251,4,304,25" title="World War 1" alt="World War 1" /></map><img usemap="#timeline_lspl0i4ckskz2a2t9zeadhywd94ufuy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/lspl0i4ckskz2a2t9zeadhywd94ufuy.png" /></div> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p><br /> Test results, up to and including 31 July 2023:<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <caption>Overall Test Results </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Tests played </th> <th scope="col"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia"><img alt="Australia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a> wins </th> <th scope="col"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England"><img alt="England" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/England_national_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="England national cricket team">England</a> wins </th> <th scope="col">Draws </th></tr> <tr> <td>361</td> <td>152</td> <td>111</td> <td>98 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Series results, up to and including 31 July 2023: </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <caption>Overall Series Results </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Series played </th> <th scope="col"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia"><img alt="Australia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" 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data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/England_national_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="England national cricket team">England</a> wins </th> <th scope="col">Draws </th></tr> <tr> <td>73</td> <td>34</td> <td>32</td> <td>7 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>A team must win a series to gain the right to hold the Ashes. A drawn series results in the previous holders retaining the Ashes. Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series (1938 and 1975) and six-match series (1970–71, 1974–75, 1978–79, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1993 and 1997). Australians have made 264 <a href="/wiki/Century_(cricket)" title="Century (cricket)">centuries</a> in Ashes Tests, of which 23 have been scores over 200, while Englishmen have scored 212 centuries, of which 10 have been over 200. Australians have taken <a href="/wiki/10_wickets_in_a_match" class="mw-redirect" title="10 wickets in a match">10 wickets in a match</a> on 41 occasions, Englishmen 38 times.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><small><a href="/wiki/Trent_Bridge" title="Trent Bridge">Trent Bridge</a></small></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:81.216%;left:62.035%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="The Rose Bowl"><img alt="The Rose Bowl" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;top:5px;left:-3em"><div><small><a href="/wiki/Rose_Bowl_(cricket_ground)" title="Rose Bowl (cricket ground)">The Rose Bowl</a></small></div></div></div></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:England_and_Wales_location_map.svg" title="File:England and Wales location map.svg">class=notpageimage| </a></div>Locations of all Ashes tests within England and Wales, The Rose Bowl is the only current Test Ground in England not to hold an Ashes Test.</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Australia">Australia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Australia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, the grounds currently used are <a href="/wiki/The_Gabba" title="The Gabba">The Gabba</a> in Brisbane (first staged an England–Australia Test in the 1932–33 season), <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Oval" title="Adelaide Oval">Adelaide Oval</a> (1884–85), the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> (MCG) (1876–77), and the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Cricket_Ground" title="Sydney Cricket Ground">Sydney Cricket Ground</a> (SCG) (1881–82). A single Test was held at the <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Showgrounds" title="Brisbane Showgrounds">Brisbane Exhibition Ground</a> in 1928–29. Traditionally, Melbourne hosts the <a href="/wiki/Boxing_Day_Test" title="Boxing Day Test">Boxing Day Test</a> and Sydney hosts the New Year's Day Test. </p><p>Additionally <a href="/wiki/WACA_Ground" title="WACA Ground">the WACA</a> in Perth (1970–71) hosted its <a href="/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_Ashes_series#3rd_Test" title="2017–18 Ashes series">final Ashes Test</a> in 2017–18 and was due to be replaced by <a href="/wiki/Perth_Stadium" title="Perth Stadium">Perth Stadium</a> for the <a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Ashes_series" title="2021–22 Ashes series">2021–22 series</a>. However, <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australian</a> border restrictions and quarantine requirements during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> led to a change in venue for the final Ashes Test to <a href="/wiki/Bellerive_Oval" title="Bellerive Oval">Bellerive Oval</a> in Hobart. This was the first Ashes Test match to be held in Tasmania. </p><p>Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010–11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart. The England and Wales Cricket Board declined and the series was played over five Tests. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="England">England</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, the grounds currently used are: <a href="/wiki/Old_Trafford_Cricket_Ground" title="Old Trafford Cricket Ground">Old Trafford</a> in Manchester (1884), <a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">The Oval</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kennington" title="Kennington">Kennington</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_London" title="South London">South London</a> (1884); <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a> in <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_Wood" title="St John's Wood">St John's Wood</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_London" title="North London">North London</a> (1884); <a href="/wiki/Headingley_Cricket_Ground" title="Headingley Cricket Ground">Headingley</a> in <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a> (1899) and <a href="/wiki/Edgbaston_Cricket_Ground" title="Edgbaston Cricket Ground">Edgbaston</a> in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a> (1902). Additionally <a href="/wiki/Sophia_Gardens_(cricket_ground)" title="Sophia Gardens (cricket ground)">Sophia Gardens</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> (2009); the <a href="/wiki/Riverside_Ground" title="Riverside Ground">Riverside Ground</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chester-le-Street" title="Chester-le-Street">Chester-le-Street</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Durham" title="County Durham">County Durham</a> (2013) and <a href="/wiki/Trent_Bridge" title="Trent Bridge">Trent Bridge</a> at <a href="/wiki/West_Bridgford" title="West Bridgford">West Bridgford</a> (1899), have been used and one Test was also held at <a href="/wiki/Bramall_Lane" title="Bramall Lane">Bramall Lane</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a> in 1902. Traditionally the final Test of the series is played at the Oval. </p><p>Sophia Gardens and the Riverside were excluded as Test grounds between the years of 2020 and 2031 and therefore will not host an Ashes Test until at least 2035. 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class="wikitable sticky-header defaultcenter col1left col2left"> <caption>In Australia </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Stadium </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia" title="States and territories of Australia">State</a> </th> <th scope="col">First Test </th> <th scope="col">Last Test </th> <th scope="colgroup">Played </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" 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href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Victoria_%28Australia%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Victoria_%28Australia%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Victoria_%28Australia%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Victoria_%28Australia%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Victoria_%28Australia%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Victoria_%28Australia%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Victoria_(state)" title="Victoria (state)">Victoria</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1882%E2%80%9383" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1882–83">1882–83</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Ashes_series" title="2021–22 Ashes series">2021–22</a> </td> <td>51 </td> <td>25 </td> <td>2021 </td> <td>7 </td> <td>19 </td> <td>2010 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Cricket_Ground" title="Sydney Cricket Ground">SCG</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1882%E2%80%9383" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1882–83">1882–83</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Ashes_series" title="2021–22 Ashes series">2021–22</a> </td> <td>52 </td> <td>23 </td> <td>2018 </td> <td>7 </td> <td>22 </td> <td>2011 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Oval" title="Adelaide Oval">Adelaide Oval</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adelaide" title="Adelaide">Adelaide</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Flag_of_South_Australia.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Australia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Flag_of_South_Australia.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Australia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Flag_of_South_Australia.svg/46px-Flag_of_South_Australia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Australia" title="South Australia">South Australia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1884%E2%80%9385" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1884–85">1884–85</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Ashes_series" title="2021–22 Ashes series">2021–22</a> </td> <td>33 </td> <td>19 </td> <td>2021 </td> <td>5 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>2010 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="LightGrey"> <td align="left"><a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Showgrounds" title="Brisbane Showgrounds">Brisbane Exhibition Ground</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brisbane" title="Brisbane">Brisbane</a>‡ </td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Flag_of_Queensland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Queensland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Flag_of_Queensland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Queensland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Flag_of_Queensland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Queensland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1928%E2%80%9329" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1928–29">1928–29</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1928%E2%80%9329" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1928–29">1928–29</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>– </td> <td>0 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>1928 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Gabba" title="The Gabba">The Gabba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brisbane" title="Brisbane">Brisbane</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Flag_of_Queensland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Queensland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Flag_of_Queensland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Queensland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Flag_of_Queensland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Queensland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1932%E2%80%9333" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33">1932–33</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Ashes_series" title="2021–22 Ashes series">2021–22</a> </td> <td>22 </td> <td>13 </td> <td>2021 </td> <td>5 </td> <td>4 </td> <td>1986 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="LightGrey"> <td><a href="/wiki/WACA_Ground" title="WACA Ground">WACA Ground</a>, <a href="/wiki/Perth" title="Perth">Perth</a>‡ </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Flag_of_Western_Australia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Western_Australia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Flag_of_Western_Australia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Western_Australia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Flag_of_Western_Australia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Western_Australia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1970%E2%80%9371" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1970–71">1970–71</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_Ashes_series" title="2017–18 Ashes series">2017–18</a> </td> <td>13 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>2017 </td> <td>3 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>1978 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bellerive_Oval" title="Bellerive Oval">Bellerive Oval</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hobart" title="Hobart">Hobart</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Flag_of_Tasmania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tasmania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Flag_of_Tasmania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tasmania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Flag_of_Tasmania.svg/46px-Flag_of_Tasmania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tasmania" title="Tasmania">Tasmania</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Ashes_series" title="2021–22 Ashes series">2021–22</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Ashes_series" title="2021–22 Ashes series">2021–22</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>2021 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>– </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1253789634"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1226773818"> <table class="wikitable sticky-header defaultcenter col1left col2left"> <caption>In England and Wales </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Stadium </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">County</a>† </th> <th scope="col">First Test </th> <th scope="col">Last Test </th> <th scope="col">Played </th> <th scope="colgroup" colspan="2"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> wins </th> <th scope="col">Draws* </th> <th scope="colgroup" colspan="2"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a> wins </th> <th scope="col">Ref </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Old_Trafford_Cricket_Ground" title="Old Trafford Cricket Ground">Old Trafford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_Lancashire.svg/23px-Flag_of_Lancashire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_Lancashire.svg/35px-Flag_of_Lancashire.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_Lancashire.svg/46px-Flag_of_Lancashire.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="538" data-file-height="339" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1884#First_Test" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1884">1884</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Ashes_series" title="2023 Ashes series">2023</a> </td> <td>33 </td> <td>7 </td> <td>1981 </td> <td>18 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>2019 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Middlesex.png/23px-Flag_of_Middlesex.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Middlesex.png/35px-Flag_of_Middlesex.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Middlesex.png/46px-Flag_of_Middlesex.png 2x" data-file-width="1033" data-file-height="620" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Middlesex" title="Middlesex">Middlesex</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1884#Second_Test" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1884">1884</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Ashes_series" title="2023 Ashes series">2023</a> </td> <td>37 </td> <td>7 </td> <td>2013 </td> <td>14 </td> <td>16 </td> <td>2023 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">The Oval</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Flag_of_Surrey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Surrey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Flag_of_Surrey.svg/35px-Flag_of_Surrey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Flag_of_Surrey.svg/46px-Flag_of_Surrey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1884#Third_Test" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1884">1884</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Ashes_series" title="2023 Ashes series">2023</a> </td> <td>37 </td> <td>17 </td> <td>2023 </td> <td>14 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>2015 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Trent_Bridge" title="Trent Bridge">Trent Bridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/County_Flag_of_Nottinghamshire.svg/23px-County_Flag_of_Nottinghamshire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/County_Flag_of_Nottinghamshire.svg/35px-County_Flag_of_Nottinghamshire.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/County_Flag_of_Nottinghamshire.svg/46px-County_Flag_of_Nottinghamshire.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="555" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1899#First_Test" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1899">1899</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2015_Ashes_series" title="2015 Ashes series">2015</a> </td> <td>22 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>2015 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>7 </td> <td>2001 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Headingley_Cricket_Ground" title="Headingley Cricket Ground">Headingley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Yorkshire_Flag.png/23px-Yorkshire_Flag.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Yorkshire_Flag.png/35px-Yorkshire_Flag.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Yorkshire_Flag.png/46px-Yorkshire_Flag.png 2x" data-file-width="1033" data-file-height="620" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1899#Third_Test" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1899">1899</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Ashes_series" title="2023 Ashes series">2023</a> </td> <td>26 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>2023 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>2009 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Edgbaston_Cricket_Ground" title="Edgbaston Cricket Ground">Edgbaston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Warwickshire.svg/23px-Flag_of_Warwickshire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Warwickshire.svg/35px-Flag_of_Warwickshire.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Warwickshire.svg/46px-Flag_of_Warwickshire.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1250" data-file-height="750" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Warwickshire" title="Warwickshire">Warwickshire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1902#First_Test,_29–31_May:_England_v_Australia" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1902">1902</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Ashes_series" title="2023 Ashes series">2023</a> </td> <td>16 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>2015 </td> <td>5 </td> <td>5 </td> <td>2023 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="LightGrey"> <td><a href="/wiki/Bramall_Lane" title="Bramall Lane">Bramall Lane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a>‡ </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Yorkshire_Flag.png/23px-Yorkshire_Flag.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Yorkshire_Flag.png/35px-Yorkshire_Flag.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Yorkshire_Flag.png/46px-Yorkshire_Flag.png 2x" data-file-width="1033" data-file-height="620" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1902#Third_Test,_3–5_July:_England_v_Australia" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1902">1902</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1902#Third_Test,_3–5_July:_England_v_Australia" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1902">1902</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>– </td> <td>0 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>1902 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Gardens_(cricket_ground)" title="Sophia Gardens (cricket ground)">Sophia Gardens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Glamorgan_Flag.svg/23px-Glamorgan_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Glamorgan_Flag.svg/35px-Glamorgan_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Glamorgan_Flag.svg/46px-Glamorgan_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="420" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Glamorgan" title="Glamorgan">Glamorgan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2009_Ashes_series" title="2009 Ashes series">2009</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2015_Ashes_series" title="2015 Ashes series">2015</a> </td> <td>2 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>2015 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>– </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Riverside_Ground" title="Riverside Ground">The Riverside</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chester-le-Street" title="Chester-le-Street">Chester-le-Street</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_County_Durham.svg/23px-Flag_of_County_Durham.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_County_Durham.svg/35px-Flag_of_County_Durham.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_County_Durham.svg/46px-Flag_of_County_Durham.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/County_Durham" title="County Durham">Durham</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2013_Ashes_series" title="2013 Ashes series">2013</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2013_Ashes_series" title="2013 Ashes series">2013</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>2013 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>– </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_references">Cultural references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Cultural references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Ashes_Urn_Replica_(2016).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/The_Ashes_Urn_Replica_%282016%29.jpg/150px-The_Ashes_Urn_Replica_%282016%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="264" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/The_Ashes_Urn_Replica_%282016%29.jpg/225px-The_Ashes_Urn_Replica_%282016%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/The_Ashes_Urn_Replica_%282016%29.jpg/300px-The_Ashes_Urn_Replica_%282016%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="452" data-file-height="796" /></a><figcaption>A modern-day replica of <a href="/wiki/The_Ashes_urn" title="The Ashes urn">The Ashes urn</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The popularity and reputation of the cricket series has led to other sports and games using the name "Ashes" for contests between England/Great Britain and Australia. The best-known and longest-running of these events is the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">rugby league</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Ashes_(rugby_league)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Ashes (rugby league)">Ashes</a> competition between <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain_national_rugby_league_team" title="Great Britain national rugby league team">Great Britain</a> now <a href="/wiki/England_national_rugby_league_team" title="England national rugby league team">England</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_rugby_league_team" title="Australia national rugby league team">Australia</a> national rugby league teams. Use of the name "Ashes" was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908. Other examples included the television game shows <i><a href="/wiki/Gladiators_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gladiators (TV series)">Gladiators</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Sale_of_the_Century_(Australian_game_show)" title="Sale of the Century (Australian game show)">Sale of the Century</a></i>, both of which broadcast special editions containing contestants from the Australian and English versions of the shows competing against each other. </p><p>The term was further genericised in Australia in the first half of the twentieth century, and was used to describe the most prominent rivalry or competition within a sport even if outside the context of Australia vs England. The <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian rules football</a> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_matches_in_Australian_rules_football" class="mw-redirect" title="Interstate matches in Australian rules football">interstate carnival</a>, and the small silver casket which served as its trophy, were symbolically known as "the Ashes" of Australian football,<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was spoken of as such until at least the 1940s.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The soccer rivalry between Australia and New Zealand was described as "the soccer ashes of Australasia" until as late as the 1950s;<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ashes from cigars smoked by the two countries' captains were put into a casket in 1923 to make the trophy literal.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The interstate <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">rugby league</a> <a href="/wiki/State_of_Origin_series#Interstate_Rugby_League_before_1980" title="State of Origin series">rivalry between Queensland and New South Wales</a> was known for a time as Australia's rugby league ashes, and <a href="/wiki/Lawn_bowls" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawn bowls">bowls</a> competitions between the two states also regularly used the term.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even some local rivalries, such as southern Western Australia's annual Great Southern Football Carnival, were locally described as "the ashes".<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This genericised usage is no longer common, and "the Ashes" would today be assumed only to apply to a contest between Australia and England. </p><p>The Ashes featured in the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Final_Test" title="The Final Test">The Final Test</a></i>, released in 1953, based on a television play by <a href="/wiki/Terence_Rattigan" title="Terence Rattigan">Terence Rattigan</a>. It stars <a href="/wiki/Jack_Warner_(actor)" title="Jack Warner (actor)">Jack Warner</a> as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series; the film includes cameo appearances of English captain <a href="/wiki/Len_Hutton" title="Len Hutton">Len Hutton</a> and other players<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who were part of England's 1953 triumph. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams">Douglas Adams</a>'s 1982 science fiction comedy novel <i><a href="/wiki/Life,_the_Universe_and_Everything" title="Life, the Universe and Everything">Life, the Universe and Everything</a></i> – the third part of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> series – features the urn containing the Ashes as a significant element of its plot. The urn is stolen by alien robots, as the burnt stump inside is part of a key needed to unlock the "Wikkit Gate" and release an imprisoned world called Krikkit. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Bodyline_(miniseries)" title="Bodyline (miniseries)">Bodyline</a></i>, a fictionalised television <a href="/wiki/Miniseries" title="Miniseries">miniseries</a> based on the "<a href="/wiki/Bodyline" title="Bodyline">Bodyline</a>" Ashes series of 1932–33, was screened in Australia in 1984. The cast included <a href="/wiki/Gary_Sweet" title="Gary Sweet">Gary Sweet</a> as <a href="/wiki/Donald_Bradman" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Bradman">Donald Bradman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Weaving" title="Hugo Weaving">Hugo Weaving</a> as England captain <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Jardine" title="Douglas Jardine">Douglas Jardine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1938 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lady_Vanishes" title="The Lady Vanishes">The Lady Vanishes</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Charters_and_Caldicott" title="Charters and Caldicott">Charters and Caldicott</a>, played by <a href="/wiki/Basil_Radford" title="Basil Radford">Basil Radford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Naunton_Wayne" title="Naunton Wayne">Naunton Wayne</a> are two cricket fans who are desperate to get home from Europe in order to see the last day's play in the <a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1938#Third_Test" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1938">Third Test at Manchester</a>. It is not until they see a newsboy's poster near the end of the film that they discover that the match had been abandoned, due to floods. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Cricketball.png/28px-Cricketball.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Cricketball.png/42px-Cricketball.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Cricketball.png/56px-Cricketball.png 2x" data-file-width="325" data-file-height="325" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Cricket" title="Portal:Cricket">Cricket portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Test_cricket_from_1877_to_1883" title="History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883">History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Test_cricket_from_1884_to_1889" title="History of Test cricket from 1884 to 1889">History of Test cricket from 1884 to 1889</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Test_cricket_from_1890_to_1900" title="History of Test cricket from 1890 to 1900">History of Test cricket from 1890 to 1900</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Women%27s_Ashes" title="The Women's Ashes">The Women's Ashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ella-Mobbs_Trophy" title="Ella-Mobbs Trophy">Ella-Mobbs Trophy</a> (the Rugby Union equivalent of England-Australia matches)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rugby_League_Ashes" class="mw-redirect" title="Rugby League Ashes">Rugby League Ashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soccer_Ashes" title="Soccer Ashes">Soccer Ashes</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Australia and England have played an additional 16 Tests: nine prior to the Ashes, and a further 7 where the Ashes were not at stake. Including these Tests, the win–loss record stands at 152 Australian wins, 111 English wins, and 97 draws (up to and including the 4th Test of the 2023 series).<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWendy_LewisSimon_BalderstoneJohn_Bowan2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Wendy_Lewis" title="Wendy Lewis">Wendy Lewis</a>; Simon Balderstone & John Bowan (2006). <i>Events That Shaped Australia</i>. New Holland. p. 75. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-74110-492-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-74110-492-9"><bdi>978-1-74110-492-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Events+That+Shaped+Australia&rft.pages=75&rft.pub=New+Holland&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-1-74110-492-9&rft.au=Wendy+Lewis&rft.au=Simon+Balderstone&rft.au=John+Bowan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-events-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-events_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63185850">"Summary of Events"</a>. <i>The Illustrated Australian News</i>. 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Hobart. 4 June 1908. p. 8.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Mercury&rft.atitle=Cricket&rft.pages=8&rft.date=1908-06-04&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnla.gov.au%2Fnla.news-article12673335&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181009142619/https://www.lords.org/history/mcc-history/the-ashes/">"The Ashes History"</a>. Lords. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lords.org/history/mcc-history/the-ashes">the original</a> on 9 October 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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London. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4729-1353-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4729-1353-1"><bdi>978-1-4729-1353-1</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/930079935">930079935</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Wisden+on+the+Ashes+%3A+the+authoritative+story+of+cricket%27s+greatest+rivalry+%3A+updated+to+include+the+2015+series&rft.place=London&rft.date=2015&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F930079935&rft.isbn=978-1-4729-1353-1&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldcat.org%2Foclc%2F930079935&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gibson, A., <i>Cricket Captains of England</i>, p. 26.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWillis1982" class="citation book cs1">Willis, Ronald (1982). <i>Cricket's Biggest Mystery: The Ashes</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">9 December</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=ESPN+Cricinfo&rft.atitle=Sophia+Gardens&rft.date=2021-12-09&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fstats.espncricinfo.com%2Fci%2Fengine%2Fground%2F56874.html%3Fclass%3D1%3Bfilter%3Dadvanced%3Borderby%3Dstart%3Btemplate%3Dresults%3Btrophy%3D1%3Btype%3Daggregate%3Bview%3Dresults&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/ground/56901.html?class=1;filter=advanced;orderby=start;template=results;trophy=1;type=aggregate;view=results">"The Riverside"</a>. <i>ESPN Cricinfo</i>. 9 December 2021. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211209191046/https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/ground/56901.html?class=1;filter=advanced;orderby=start;template=results;trophy=1;type=aggregate;view=results">Archived</a> from the original on 9 December 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">9 December</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=ESPN+Cricinfo&rft.atitle=The+Riverside&rft.date=2021-12-09&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fstats.espncricinfo.com%2Fci%2Fengine%2Fground%2F56901.html%3Fclass%3D1%3Bfilter%3Dadvanced%3Borderby%3Dstart%3Btemplate%3Dresults%3Btrophy%3D1%3Btype%3Daggregate%3Bview%3Dresults&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Carnival champions – presentation of the Ashes". <i>Daily Herald</i>. 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Melbourne, VIC. p. 7.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Sporting+Globe&rft.atitle=Kiwis+to+win+the+Ashes&rft.pages=7&rft.date=1954-08-25&rft.au=J.+O.+Wishaw&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"The soccer ashes of Australasia". <i>Referee</i>. 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Brisbane, QLD. 14 July 1920. p. 3.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Brisbane+Courier&rft.atitle=Bowls+%E2%80%93+N.S.W.+%22Knuts%22+retain+the+%22Ashes%22&rft.pages=3&rft.date=1920-07-14&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Great Southern Football Carnival". <i>Great Southern Herald</i>. Katanning, WA. 21 September 1935. p. 3.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Great+Southern+Herald&rft.atitle=Great+Southern+Football+Carnival&rft.pages=3&rft.date=1935-09-21&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045769/">"The Final Test (1953)"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet Movie Database">Internet Movie Database</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121104033237/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045769/">Archived</a> from the original on 4 November 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 July</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Final+Test+%281953%29&rft.pub=Internet+Movie+Database&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0045769%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-95">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrith2013" class="citation book cs1">Frith, David (24 June 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ijnLAgAAQBAJ"><i>Bodyline Autopsy: The full story of the most sensational Test cricket series: Australia v England 1932–33</i></a>. Aurum Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781781311936" title="Special:BookSources/9781781311936"><bdi>9781781311936</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bodyline+Autopsy%3A+The+full+story+of+the+most+sensational+Test+cricket+series%3A+Australia+v+England+1932%E2%80%9333&rft.pub=Aurum+Press&rft.date=2013-06-24&rft.isbn=9781781311936&rft.aulast=Frith&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DijnLAgAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBerry2006" class="citation book cs1">Berry, S. (2006). <i>Cricket's Burning Passion</i>. London: Methuen. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-413-77627-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-413-77627-1"><bdi>0-413-77627-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cricket%27s+Burning+Passion&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Methuen&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=0-413-77627-1&rft.aulast=Berry&rft.aufirst=S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBirley2003" class="citation book cs1">Birley, D. (2003). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/socialhistoryofe0000birl"><i>A Social History of English Cricket</i></a></span>. London: Aurum Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85410-941-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-85410-941-3"><bdi>1-85410-941-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Social+History+of+English+Cricket&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Aurum+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=1-85410-941-3&rft.aulast=Birley&rft.aufirst=D.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsocialhistoryofe0000birl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrith1990" class="citation book cs1">Frith, David (1990). <i>Australia versus England: A Pictorial History of Every Test Match Since 1877</i>. Victoria (Australia): Penguin Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-90323-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-90323-X"><bdi>0-670-90323-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Australia+versus+England%3A+A+Pictorial+History+of+Every+Test+Match+Since+1877&rft.place=Victoria+%28Australia%29&rft.pub=Penguin+Books&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-670-90323-X&rft.aulast=Frith&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrith2002" class="citation book cs1">Frith, David (2002). <i>Bodyline Autopsy: The Full Story of the Most Sensational Test Cricket Series – England v Australia 1932–3</i>. London: Aurum Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-8541-0896-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-8541-0896-8"><bdi>978-1-8541-0896-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bodyline+Autopsy%3A+The+Full+Story+of+the+Most+Sensational+Test+Cricket+Series+%E2%80%93+England+v+Australia+1932%E2%80%933&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Aurum+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-1-8541-0896-8&rft.aulast=Frith&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGibb1979" class="citation book cs1">Gibb, J. (1979). <i>Test Cricket Records From 1877</i>. London: Collins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-00-411690-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-00-411690-9"><bdi>0-00-411690-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Test+Cricket+Records+From+1877&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Collins&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=0-00-411690-9&rft.aulast=Gibb&rft.aufirst=J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGibson1989" class="citation book cs1">Gibson, A. (1989). <i>Cricket Captains of England</i>. London: Pavilion Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85145-395-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-85145-395-4"><bdi>1-85145-395-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cricket+Captains+of+England&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Pavilion+Books&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=1-85145-395-4&rft.aulast=Gibson&rft.aufirst=A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreen1979" class="citation book cs1">Green, B. (1979). <i>Wisden Anthology 1864–1900</i>. London: M & J/QA Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-356-10732-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-356-10732-9"><bdi>0-356-10732-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Wisden+Anthology+1864%E2%80%931900&rft.place=London&rft.pub=M+%26+J%2FQA+Press&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=0-356-10732-9&rft.aulast=Green&rft.aufirst=B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHarte2003" class="citation book cs1">Harte, Chris (2003). <i>Penguin History of Australian Cricket</i>. Penguin Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-04133-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-04133-5"><bdi>0-670-04133-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Penguin+History+of+Australian+Cricket&rft.pub=Penguin+Books&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-670-04133-5&rft.aulast=Harte&rft.aufirst=Chris&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMunns1994" class="citation book cs1">Munns, J. (1994). <i>Beyond Reasonable Doubt – Rupertswood, Sunbury – The Birthplace of the Ashes</i>. Australia: Joy Munns. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-646-22153-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-646-22153-1"><bdi>0-646-22153-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Beyond+Reasonable+Doubt+%E2%80%93+Rupertswood%2C+Sunbury+%E2%80%93+The+Birthplace+of+the+Ashes&rft.place=Australia&rft.pub=Joy+Munns&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=0-646-22153-1&rft.aulast=Munns&rft.aufirst=J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWarner1987" class="citation book cs1">Warner, P. (1987). <i>Lord's 1787–1945</i>. London: Pavilion Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85145-112-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-85145-112-9"><bdi>1-85145-112-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lord%27s+1787%E2%80%931945&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Pavilion+Books&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=1-85145-112-9&rft.aulast=Warner&rft.aufirst=P.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWarner2004" class="citation book cs1">Warner, P. (2004). <i>How We Recovered the Ashes: MCC Tour 1903–1904</i>. London: Methuen. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-413-77399-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-413-77399-X"><bdi>0-413-77399-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=How+We+Recovered+the+Ashes%3A+MCC+Tour+1903%E2%80%931904&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Methuen&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-413-77399-X&rft.aulast=Warner&rft.aufirst=P.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Willis, R. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lutterworth.com/product_info.php?products_id=486"><i>Cricket's Biggest Mystery: The Ashes</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514084152/http://www.lutterworth.com/product_info.php?products_id=486">Archived</a> 14 May 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, The Lutterworth Press (1987), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7188-2588-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7188-2588-1">978-0-7188-2588-1</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWynne-Thomas1989" class="citation book cs1">Wynne-Thomas, P. (1989). <i>The Complete History of Cricket Tours at Home and Abroad</i>. London: Hamlyn. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-600-55782-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-600-55782-0"><bdi>0-600-55782-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Complete+History+of+Cricket+Tours+at+Home+and+Abroad&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Hamlyn&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0-600-55782-0&rft.aulast=Wynne-Thomas&rft.aufirst=P.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ashes" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ashes&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Wisden's Cricketers Almanack</i> (various editions)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading 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class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toukmRyDuOE">Ashes to Ashes</a> An audio history of the first hundred years of the Ashes, narrated by <a href="/wiki/John_Arlott" title="John Arlott">John Arlott</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cricinfo.com/engvaus2009/content/story/259985.html">Cricinfo's Ashes</a> website</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mcc.org.au/News/Club%20Publications/~/media/Files/Origin%20of%20the%20Ashes.ashx">The Origin of the Ashes – Rex Harcourt</a></li> <li>Listen to a young <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aso.gov.au/titles/spoken-word/1930-australian-xi-ashes/">Don Bradman speaking</a> after the 1930 Ashes tour</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1884" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1884">1884</a> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1886" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1886">1886</a> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1888" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1888">1888</a> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1890" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1890">1890</a> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1893" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1893">1893</a> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1896" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1896">1896</a> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1899" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1899">1899</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#ffff99;"> <td width="6%" colspan="2"> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1882%E2%80%9383" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1882–83">1882–83</a> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1884%E2%80%9385" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1884–85">1884–85</a> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1886%E2%80%9387" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1886–87">1886–87</a> </td> <td width="6%" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_teams_in_Australia_and_New_Zealand_in_1887%E2%80%9388" title="English 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Australia and New Zealand in 1878–79">1878–79</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1880" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1880">1880</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_and_New_Zealand_in_1881%E2%80%9382" title="English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1881–82">1881–82</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1882" title="Australian cricket team in England in 1882">1882</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victory_Tests" title="Victory Tests">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centenary_Test" title="Centenary Test">1976–77</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1979%E2%80%9380" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1979–80">1979–80</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centenary_Test" title="Centenary Test">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bicentennial_Test" title="Bicentennial Test">1987–88</a></li> <li>2027</li></ul> 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class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span> vs. <b><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India_national_cricket_team" title="India national cricket team">India</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Border%E2%80%93Gavaskar_Trophy" title="Border–Gavaskar Trophy">Border–Gavaskar Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_India_in_2022%E2%80%9323" title="Australian cricket team in India in 2022–23">2022–23</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_national_cricket_team" title="New Zealand national cricket team">New Zealand</a> (<a href="/wiki/Trans-Tasman_Trophy" title="Trans-Tasman Trophy">Trans-Tasman Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_New_Zealand_in_2023%E2%80%9324" title="Australian cricket team in New Zealand in 2023–24">2023–24</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_national_cricket_team" title="Pakistan national cricket team">Pakistan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Benaud%E2%80%93Qadir_Trophy" title="Benaud–Qadir Trophy">Benaud–Qadir Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/Pakistani_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_2023%E2%80%9324" title="Pakistani cricket team in Australia in 2023–24">2023–24</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_national_cricket_team" title="Sri Lanka national cricket team">Sri Lanka</a> (<a href="/wiki/Warne%E2%80%93Muralitharan_Trophy" title="Warne–Muralitharan Trophy">Warne–Muralitharan Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/Australian_cricket_team_in_Sri_Lanka_in_2022" title="Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2022">2022</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/23px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/35px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/46px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="309" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a> (<a href="/wiki/Frank_Worrell_Trophy" title="Frank Worrell Trophy">Frank Worrell Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_2023%E2%80%9324" title="West Indian cricket team in Australia in 2023–24">2023–24</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg/23px-Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg/35px-Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg/46px-Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe_national_cricket_team" title="Zimbabwe national cricket team">Zimbabwe</a> (<a href="/wiki/Southern_Cross_Trophy" title="Southern Cross Trophy">Southern Cross Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/Zimbabwean_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_2003%E2%80%9304" title="Zimbabwean cricket team in Australia in 2003–04">2003–04</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India_national_cricket_team" title="India national cricket team">India</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pataudi_Trophy" title="Pataudi Trophy">Pataudi Trophy</a> – <span style="font-size:85%;">played in England</span>): <a href="/wiki/Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_2021" title="Indian cricket team in England in 2021">2021</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span></span> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_national_cricket_team" title="New Zealand national cricket team">New Zealand</a> (<a href="/wiki/Crowe%E2%80%93Thorpe_Trophy" title="Crowe–Thorpe Trophy">Crowe–Thorpe Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_New_Zealand_in_2024%E2%80%9325" title="English cricket team in New Zealand in 2024–25">2024–25</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_cricket_team" title="South Africa national cricket team">South Africa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Basil_D%27Oliveira_Trophy" title="Basil D'Oliveira Trophy">Basil D'Oliveira Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/South_African_cricket_team_in_England_in_2022" title="South African cricket team in England in 2022">2022</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/23px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/35px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/46px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="309" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a> (<a href="/wiki/Richards%E2%80%93Botham_Trophy" title="Richards–Botham Trophy">Richards–Botham Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_2024" title="West Indian cricket team in England in 2024">2024</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/India_national_cricket_team" title="India national cricket team">India</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> (<a href="/wiki/Anthony_de_Mello_Trophy" title="Anthony de Mello Trophy">Anthony de Mello Trophy</a> – <span style="font-size:85%;">played in India</span>): <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_India_in_2023%E2%80%9324" title="English cricket team in India in 2023–24">2023–24</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/India_national_cricket_team" title="India national cricket team">India</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> vs. <b><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_cricket_team" title="South Africa national cricket team">South Africa</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Freedom_Trophy_(cricket)" title="Freedom Trophy (cricket)">Freedom Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/Indian_cricket_team_in_South_Africa_in_2023%E2%80%9324" title="Indian cricket team in South Africa in 2023–24">2023–24</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_national_cricket_team" title="New Zealand national cricket team">New Zealand</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_cricket_team" title="South Africa national cricket team">South Africa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tangiwai_Shield" title="Tangiwai Shield">Tangiwai Shield</a>): <a href="/wiki/South_African_cricket_team_in_New_Zealand_in_2023%E2%80%9324" title="South African cricket team in New Zealand in 2023–24">2023–24</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_cricket_team" title="South Africa national cricket team">South Africa</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/23px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/35px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/46px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="309" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sir_Vivian_Richards_Trophy" title="Sir Vivian Richards Trophy">Sir Vivian Richards Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_South_Africa_in_2022%E2%80%9323" title="West Indian cricket team in South Africa in 2022–23">2022–23</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_national_cricket_team" title="Sri Lanka national cricket team">Sri Lanka</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/23px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/35px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/46px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="309" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sobers%E2%80%93Tissera_Trophy" title="Sobers–Tissera Trophy">Sobers–Tissera Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_Sri_Lanka_in_2021%E2%80%9322" title="West Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2021–22">2021–22</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/23px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/35px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/46px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="309" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg/23px-Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg/35px-Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg/46px-Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe_national_cricket_team" title="Zimbabwe national cricket team">Zimbabwe</a> (<a href="/wiki/Clive_Lloyd_Trophy" title="Clive Lloyd Trophy">Clive Lloyd Trophy</a>): <a href="/wiki/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_Zimbabwe_in_2017%E2%80%9318" title="West Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2017–18">2017–18</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span></span> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/23px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/35px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg/46px-WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="309" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wisden_Trophy" title="Wisden Trophy">Wisden Trophy</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/One_Day_International" title="One Day International">ODI</a> & <a href="/wiki/Twenty20_International" title="Twenty20 International">T20I</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_national_cricket_team" title="New Zealand national cricket team">New Zealand</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chappell%E2%80%93Hadlee_Trophy" title="Chappell–Hadlee Trophy">Chappell–Hadlee Trophy</a>):</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K.A._Auty_Cup" title="K.A. Auty Cup">K.A. Auty Cup</a> (Can v USA)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._J._Gopalan_Trophy" title="M. J. Gopalan Trophy">M. J. Gopalan Trophy</a> (Cey v Madras)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudara_Cup" title="Saudara Cup">Saudara Cup</a> (Mal v Sin)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stan_Nagaiah_Trophy" title="Stan Nagaiah Trophy">Stan Nagaiah Trophy</a> (Mal v Sin)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_cricket" title="Women's cricket">Women</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Test_cricket" title="Women's Test cricket">WTest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_One_Day_International" title="Women's One Day International">WODI</a> & <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Twenty20_International" title="Women's Twenty20 International">WT20I</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_cricket_team" title="Australia women's national cricket team">Australia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_women%27s_cricket_team" title="England women's cricket team">England</a> (<a href="/wiki/The_Women%27s_Ashes" title="The Women's Ashes">The Ashes</a>): <a href="/wiki/2023_Women%27s_Ashes_series" title="2023 Women's Ashes series">2023</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_One_Day_International" title="Women's One Day International">WODI</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b><a href="/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_cricket_team" title="Australia women's national cricket team">Australia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span></b> vs. <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" 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