If you love cricket then you probably love the ashes a test cricket series played between england and australia since 1882 the ashes is one of the most celebrated rivalries in sport the series is called the ashes after a comment in the sporting times in 1882 after a match at the oval in which australia beat england on homeground for the first time when it was stated that cricket had died and the ody will be cremated and the ashes taken to australiakids t shirt design reads i heart th