Ashes Summary of results and statistics

Chart of the matches won between the two sides.

A team must succeed a series to add the right to grasp the Ashes. A haggard series results in the previous holders retaining the Ashes. To date, a total of 64 Ashes series have been played, with Australia winning 31 and England 28. The exceptional five series were drawn, with Australia retaining the Ashes four times (1938, 1962–63, 1965–66, 1968) and England retains it once (1972). The win-loss ratio in Ashes Tests(up to and including the 2006/07 series) stands at 121 wins for Australia to 95 wins for England, with 84 draws.

Ashes series have usually been played over five Test matches, although there have been four match series (1938; 1975) and six match series (1970–71; 1974–75; 1978–79; 1981; 1985; 1989; 1993 and 1997). Australians have made 264 centuries in Ashes Tests, twenty-three of them over 200, while Englishmen have scored 212 centuries, of which ten have been scores over 200. On 41 occasions, person Australians have taken ten wickets in a match. Englishmen have performed that feat 38 times.