why england have won the ashes? i thought we had lost one, drawn one and won two, but with another game to play surely the aussies can make it drawn one and won two each - therefore it's a draw???
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If it is drawn then the team currently holding it (England) retain it...the worst we can do is draw the series therefore we have retained the Ashes....same principle applies to the Ryder Cup.
What Croc said *nods*
Oh and well done England
Oh and well done England
Basically yeah!
God knows but I thought the ashes would be some massive big f**k off blinging dancing trophy thing the way men go mental over it, not some little thimble 
That thimble contains the bails of the wicket from the first test between England and Australia (or one of the earlier test, may not be the first)...it is symbolic.
Oh I know, when I made that comment in an office full of blokes a couple of years ago anyone would think I'd run over their cat 
This is from the website for Lord's:
The term 'Ashes' was first used after England lost to Australia - for the first time on home soil - at The Oval on 29th August 1882. A day later, the Sporting Times carried a mock obituary to English cricket which concluded that: "The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". The concept caught the imagination of the sporting public. A few weeks later, an English team, captained by the Hon Ivo Bligh [later Lord Darnley], set off to tour Australia, with Bligh vowing to return with "the ashes"; his Australian counterpart, WL Murdoch, similarly vowed to defend them.
They then needed a trophy to play for which is as Croc says.
The term 'Ashes' was first used after England lost to Australia - for the first time on home soil - at The Oval on 29th August 1882. A day later, the Sporting Times carried a mock obituary to English cricket which concluded that: "The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". The concept caught the imagination of the sporting public. A few weeks later, an English team, captained by the Hon Ivo Bligh [later Lord Darnley], set off to tour Australia, with Bligh vowing to return with "the ashes"; his Australian counterpart, WL Murdoch, similarly vowed to defend them.
They then needed a trophy to play for which is as Croc says.
Cricket,the most bloody boring thing on the planet along with tennis.
Nothing is as boring as tennis.
ïŧŋïŧŋIt is Joe......Cricket. I once was with my late husband, who was sat watching a cricket match on a gorgeous summers day. I propmtly fell asleep as it was so boring. Half an hour later a man came around shaking a collecting tin under our noses. He wanted me to pay for the privilage of not watching his cricket team play.
Surely you should have been making cream
Teas for the lads. :runs while waving a night night greeting:
There are more boring things in the world than cricket. I don't know what they are but I have it on good authority that they exist 