Test cricket matches between England and Australia are for which trophy?

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The Ashes

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'The Ashes' is an 11cm high Urn and is the symbol

of cricket's oldest and most prestigious rivalry.

The contents of the urn are reputed to be the

ashes of a wooden bail.

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The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, their 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".