Ashes 2023: Australia would like to end 22 years of drought on England’s soil, Ashes will be important for Kangaroos

The famous Test series Ashes 2023 to be played between England and Australia will start from 16 June. This time the Ashes series of five Test matches will be played in the host of England. This series will be very important for the Australia team, because Australia has not won the Ashes trophy on the soil of England for the last 22 years. The Kangaroo team last won the trophy in 2001 while hosting England.

In 2001, Australia won the 5-match series 4-1 while playing in England. After this, the Kangaroo team has won all the Ashes trophies on home soil. This time Australia would definitely like to end this 22 years of drought. Earlier in 2019, this trophy was played in the host of England, in which both the teams won 2-2 matches and ended the series on a draw.

Australia won the last trophy

At the same time, in the previous trophy played in 2021-22, Australia had defeated the visiting England team 4-0 in their hosting. Australia won the first three Tests in the series, then the fourth match ended in a draw and in the fifth match the Kangaroo team once again won.

Both teams won their last Tests

Before the Ashes, both England and Australia teams have won their last Test matches. England had registered a 10-wicket win in the only Test match played against Ireland. Whereas, Australia played its last Test match against India as the final of the World Test Championship, in which the Kangaroo team became the Test champions by winning.

Australia became the second team after New Zealand to become Test champions. Significantly, New Zealand also defeated India in the final of the first edition of the World Test Championship. New Zealand won by 8 wickets.