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The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The Ashes are regarded as being held by the team that most recently won the Test series. If the test series is drawn, the team that currently holds the Ashes retains the trophy. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".[1] The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, before which the English captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to "regain those ashes". The English media therefore dubbed the tour the quest to regain the Ashes.
After England had won two of the three Tests on the tour, a small urn was presented to Bligh by a group of Melbourne women including Florence Morphy, whom Bligh married within a year.[2] The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of a wooden bail, and were humorously described as "the ashes of Australian cricket".[3] It is not clear whether that "tiny silver urn" is the same as the small terracotta urn given to the MCC by Bligh's widow after his death in 1927.
The urn has never been the official trophy of the Ashes series, having been a personal gift to Bligh.[4] However, replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series. Since the 1998–99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn (called the Ashes Trophy) has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series. Irrespective of which side holds the tournament, the urn remains in the MCC Museum at Lord's; it has however been taken to Australia to be put on touring display on two occasions: as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations in 1988, and to accompany the Ashes series in 2006–07.
An Ashes series is traditionally of five Tests, hosted in turn by England and Australia at least once every two years. There have been 70 Ashes series: Australia have won 33, England 32 and five series have been drawn.
Ashes series
The Honourable Ivo Bligh captained England during their first Ashes series.[1]
Jack Hobbs (left) and Herbert Sutcliffe were two of England's most successful batsmen in the Ashes.[13]
Don Bradman (left), who has scored more runs in the Ashes than any other player, at the toss of the first Test of the 1936–37 Ashes with Gubby Allen.[14]
Shane Warne played for Australia in 14 years of Ashes Tests, taking a record 195 wickets.[15]
Series Years Host First match Tests Australia England Drawn Result Holder Ref
1 1882–83 Australia 30 December 1882 3 1 2 0 England England [16]
2 1884 England 11 July 1884 3 0 1 2 England England [17]
3 1884–85 Australia 12 December 1884 5 2 3 0 England England [18]
4 1886 England 5 July 1886 3 0 3 0 England England [19]
5 1886-87 Australia 28 January 1887 2 0 2 0 England England [20]
6 1887-88 Australia 10 February 1888 1 0 1 0 England England [21]
7 1888 England 16 July 1888 3 1 2 0 England England [22]
8 1890 England 21 July 1890 2 (3) 0 2 0 England England [23]
9 1891–92 Australia 1 January 1892 3 2 1 0 Australia Australia [24]
10 1893 England 17 July 1893 3 0 1 2 England England [25]
11 1894–95 Australia 14 December 1894 5 2 3 0 England England [26]
12 1896 England 22 June 1896 3 1 2 0 England England [27]
13 1897–98 Australia 13 December 1897 5 4 1 0 Australia Australia [28]
14 1899 England 1 June 1899 5 1 0 4 Australia Australia [29]
15 1901–02 Australia 13 December 1901 5 4 1 0 Australia Australia [30]
16 1902 England 29 May 1902 5 2 1 2 Australia Australia [31]
17 1903–04 Australia 11 December 1903 5 2 3 0 England England [32]
18 1905 England 29 May 1905 5 0 2 3 England England [33]
19 1907–08 Australia 13 December 1907 5 4 1 0 Australia Australia [34]
20 1909 England 27 May 1909 5 2 1 2 Australia Australia [35]
21 1911–12 Australia 15 December 1911 5 1 4 0 England England [36]
22 1912 England 27 May 1912 3 0 1 2 England England [37]
23 1920–21 Australia 17 December 1920 5 5 0 0 Australia Australia [38]
24 1921 England 28 May 1921 5 3 0 2 Australia Australia [39]
25 1924–25 Australia 19 December 1924 5 4 1 0 Australia Australia [40]
26 1926 England 12 June 1926 5 0 1 4 England England [41]
27 1928–29 Australia 30 November 1928 5 1 4 0 England England [42]
28 1930 England 13 June 1930 5 2 1 2 Australia Australia [43]
29 1932–33 Australia 2 December 1932 5 1 4 0 England England [44]
30 1934 England 8 June 1934 5 2 1 2 Australia Australia [45]
31 1936–37 Australia 4 December 1936 5 3 2 0 Australia Australia [46]
32 1938 England 10 June 1938 4 (5) 1 1 2 Drawn Australia [47]
33 1946–47 Australia 29 November 1946 5 3 0 2 Australia Australia [48]
34 1948 England 10 June 1948 5 4 0 1 Australia Australia [49]
35 1950–51 Australia 1 December 1950 5 4 1 0 Australia Australia [50]
36 1953 England 11 June 1953 5 0 1 4 England England [51]
37 1954–55 Australia 26 November 1954 5 1 3 1 England England [52]
38 1956 England 7 June 1956 5 1 2 2 England England [53]
39 1958–59 Australia 5 December 1958 5 4 0 1 Australia Australia [54]
40 1961 England 8 June 1961 5 2 1 2 Australia Australia [55]
41 1962–63 Australia 30 November 1962 5 1 1 3 Drawn Australia [56]
42 1964 England 4 June 1964 5 1 0 4 Australia Australia [57]
43 1965–66 Australia 10 December 1965 5 1 1 3 Drawn Australia [58]
44 1968 England 6 June 1968 5 1 1 3 Drawn Australia [59]
45 1970–71 Australia 27 November 1970 6 (7) 0 2 4 England England [60]
46 1972 England 8 June 1972 5 2 2 1 Drawn England [61]
47 1974–75 Australia 29 November 1974 6 4 1 1 Australia Australia [62]
48 1975 England 10 July 1975 4 1 0 3 Australia Australia [63]
49 1977 England 16 June 1977 5 0 3 2 England England [64]
50 1978–79 Australia 1 December 1978 6 1 5 0 England England [65]
51 1981 England 18 June 1981 6 1 3 2 England England [66]
52 1982–83 Australia 12 November 1982 5 2 1 2 Australia Australia [67]
53 1985 England 13 June 1985 6 1 3 2 England England [68]
54 1986–87 Australia 14 November 1986 5 1 2 2 England England [69]
55 1989 England 8 June 1989 6 4 0 2 Australia Australia [70]
56 1990–91 Australia 23 November 1990 5 3 0 2 Australia Australia [71]
57 1993 England 3 June 1993 6 4 1 1 Australia Australia [72]
58 1994–95 Australia 25 November 1994 5 3 1 1 Australia Australia [73]
59 1997 England 5 June 1997 6 3 2 1 Australia Australia [74]
60 1998–99 Australia 20 November 1998 5 3 1 1 Australia Australia [75]
61 2001 England 5 July 2001 5 4 1 0 Australia Australia [76]
62 2002–03 Australia 7 November 2002 5 4 1 0 Australia Australia [77]
63 2005 England 21 July 2005 5 1 2 2 England England [78]
64 2006–07 Australia 23 November 2006 5 5 0 0 Australia Australia [79]
65 2009 England 8 July 2009 5 1 2 2 England England [80]
66 2010–11 Australia 25 November 2010 5 1 3 1 England England [81]
67 2013 England 10 July 2013 5 0 3 2 England England [82]
68 2013–14 Australia 21 November 2013 5 5 0 0 Australia Australia [83]
69 2015 England 8 July 2015 5 2 3 0 England England [84]
70 2017–18 Australia 23 November 2017 5 4 0 1 Australia Australia [85]
71 2019 England 1 August 2019 5 – – – TBD TBD
