The Ashes: History and Records.

The Ashes is played between two cricketing nations. They are Australia and England. It basically originated during the 1882 series when Australia won their first ever test match in English soil. After the defeat in a British newspaper “The Sporting Times” a mock obituary published and it said “ The English cricket had died and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia”.

In the 1882-83 series in Australia it became quite interesting and the captain of England at that time Ivo Bligh pledged to “regain those ashes” and the English media printed “the quest to regain the Ashes”.

In that series when England was leading the 3 match series by 2-0 then some Melbourne women presented Bligh a small terracotta urn. In that group of women, Florence Morphy was there whom Bligh later on got married. It was believed that the urn was of a wooden bail and was described as “the ashes of Australian cricket”. The urn remains in the MCC Museum at the Lords, London.

The Ashes mainly consists of 5 match series hosted by England and Australia once every two years. Winner of the series takes the trophy but if it gets drawn then the trophy remains with the last winning side.

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Matches:

Till now 72 series have been played between the two nations. Australia won 34 series while England won 32 series and 6 series were drawn.

Hosted Nation	Season	Winner	Result
Australia	1882-83	England	2-1 (3)
England	1884	England	1-0 (3)
Australia	1884-85	England	3-2 (5)
England	1886	England	3-0 (3)
Australia	1886-87	England	2-0 (2)
Australia	1887-88	England	1-0 (1)
England	1888	England	2-1 (3)
England	1890	England	2-0 (2)
Australia	1891-92	Australia	2-1 (3)
England	1893	England	1-0 (3)
Australia	1894-95	England	3-2 (5)
England	1896	England	2-1 (3)
Australia	1897-98	Australia	4-1 (5)
England	1899	Australia	1-0 (5)
Australia	1901-02	Australia	4-1 (5)
England	1902	Australia	2-1 (5)
Australia	1903-04	England	3-2 (5)
England	1905	England	2-0 (5)
Australia	1907-08	Australia	4-1 (5)

England	1909	Australia	2-1 (5)
Australia	1911-12	England	4-1 (5)
England	1912	England	1-0 (3)
Australia	1920-21	Australia	5-0 (5)
England	1921	Australia	3-0 (5)
Australia	1924-25	Australia	4-1 (5)
England	1926	England	1-0 (5)
Australia	1928-29	England	4-1 (5)
England	1930	Australia	2-1 (5)
Australia	1932-33	England	4-1 (5)
England	1934	Australia	2-1 (5)
Australia	1936-37	Australia	3-2 (5)
England	1938	Drawn	1-1 (5)
Australia	1946-47	Australia	3-0 (5)
England	1948	Australia	4-0 (5)
Australia	1950-51	Australia	4-1 (5)
England	1953	England	1-0 (5)
Australia	1954-55	England	3-1 (5)
England	1956	England	2-1 (5)
Australia	1958-59	Australia	4-0 (5)

England	1961	Australia	2-1 (5)
Australia	1962-63	Drawn	1-1 (5)
England	1964	Australia	1-0 (5)
Australia	1965-66	Drawn	1-1 (5)
England	1968	Drawn	1-1 (5)
Australia	1970-71	England	2-0 (7)
England	1972	Drawn	2-2 (5)
Australia	1974-75	Australia	4-1 (6)
England	1975	Australia	1-0 (4)
England	1977	England	3-0 (5)
Australia	1978-79	England	5-1 (6)
England	1981	England	3-1 (6)
Australia	1982-83	Australia	2-1 (5)
England	1985	England	3-1 (6)
Australia	1986-87	England	2-1 (5)
England	1989	Australia	4-0 (6)
Australia	1990-91	Australia	3-0 (5)
England	1993	Australia	4-1 (6)
Australia	1994-95	Australia	3-1 (5)
England	1997	Australia	3-2 (6)

Australia	1998-99	Australia	3-1 (5)
England	2001	Australia	4-1 (5)
Australia	2002-03	Australia	4-1 (5)
England	2005	England	2-0 (5)
Australia	2006-07	Australia	5-0 (5)
England	2009	England	2-1 (5)
Australia	2010-11	England	3-1 (5)
England	2013	England	3-0 (5)
Australia	2013-14	Australia	5-0 (5)
England	2015	England	3-2 (5)
Australia	2017-18	Australia	4-0 (5)
England	2019	Drawn	2-2 (5)
Australia	2021-22	Australia	4-0 (5)
England	2023	Drawn	2-2 (5)