Whatz thrilling,...Ashes or Boder-Gavaskar ...

The Ashes..no badmouthing, no dirty tricks, no racism from harbhajan, no underhanded means, nothing dispectful, no booing by the crowd.

Clean as you like.

if you want controversey you go to the Border Gavaskar trophy.
If you want history and class you go to the Ashes.

Ease up on the questions ay. youve unleashed, lol

Border-Gavaskar for me!! Ashes has been boring apart from the 2005 series.Booing from crowd,Controversies,Magnificent cricket,Sledging makes Border-Gavaskar very special and thrilling to watch.You will only find England following on in most of the ashes series!! But i've to say 05 ashes series was awesome!!

B G series

Ashes by an absolute mile

Ashes.
Border/Gaviskar is a consolation prize.

Ashes there is no team that Australia would love to beat more than the Poms

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lol, Ashes easily.
The Ashes is the highest prize in test cricket.
against india the games are slow and boring, especially if its in india.

the ashes

The Ashes is a Test cricket series, played between England & Australia. It is one of international cricket is most celebrated rivalries & dates back to 1882. It is currently played biennially, alternately in England & Australia. However, since cricket is a summer game, the venues being in opposite hemispheres means the break between series alternates between 18 & 30 months. A series of ''The Ashes'' now comprises five Test matches, two innings per match, under the regular rules for international Test-match cricket. If a series is drawn then the country holding the Ashes retains them.

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in an English newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after the match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, & the body will be cremated & the ashes taken to Australia. The English media then dubbed the next English tour to Australia (1882–83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.

During that tour in Australia, a small terracotta urn was presented as a gift to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women. The contents of the urn r reputed to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. Some Aborigines hold that The Ashes r in fact those of King Cole, the cricketer who toured England in 1868.[1] The Dowager Countess of Darnley, meanwhile, claimed recently that her mother-in-law (and Bligh is wife), Florence Morphy, said that they were the remains of a lady is veil.

The urn is erroneously believed, by some, to be the trophy of the Ashes series but it has never been formally adopted as such & Ivo Bligh always considered it to be a personal gift.[2] Replicas of the urn r often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series, but the actual urn has never been presented or displayed as a trophy in this way. Whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum at Lord is since being bequeathed to the MCC by Ivo Bligh is widow upon his death.[3]

Since the 1998–99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.

Australia currently holds The Ashes, after beating England 5–0 to regain them in 2006–07. The next Ashes series will be held in England in 2009. npower (UK) currently sponsor the Ashes series played in England.
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* 1 The legend of The Ashes
* 2 The Ashes Urn
* 3 Series & matches
o 3.1 The quest to ''recover those ashes''
o 3.2 1884 to 1896
o 3.3 1897 to 1902
o 3.4 Reviving the Ashes legend
o 3.5 1905 to 1912
o 3.6 1920 to 1933
o 3.7 1934 to 1953
o 3.8 1954 to 1971
o 3.9 1972 to 1987
o 3.10 1989 to 2003
o 3.11 2005 to present
* 4 Summary of results & statistics
* 5 The Ashes today
* 6 Match venues
* 7 The Ashes outside cricket
* 8 See also
* 9 Notes
* 10 References
* 11 External links

[edit] The legend of The Ashes
The death notice that appeared in The Sporting Times

The first Test Match between England & Australia was played in 1877, but the Ashes legend dates back only to the ninth Test Match, played in 1882.

On their tour of England that year, the Australians played just one Test, at The Oval in London. It was a low-scoring affair on a difficult wicket.[4] Australia made a mere 63 runs in its first innings, & England, led by ''Boss'' Hornby, took a 38-run lead with a total of 101. In their second innings, the Australians, boosted by a spectacular run-a-minute 55 from Hugh Massie, managed 122, which left England only 85 runs to win.

The Australians were greatly demoralised by the manner of their second-innings collapse, but fast bowler Fred Spofforth, spurred on by some gamesmanship on the part of his opponents, refused to give in. ''This thing can be done,'' he declared. Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just seven runs short of victory in one of the closest & most nail- (or umbrella-) biting finishes in the history of cricket.

When Ted Peate, England is last batsman, came to the crease, his side needed just ten runs to win, but Peate managed only two before he was bowled by Harry Boyle. An astonished Oval crowd fell silent, struggling to believe that England could possibly have lost to a colony. When it finally sunk in, however, the crowd swarmed onto the field, cheering loudly & chairing Boyle & Spofforth to the pavilion.

When Peate returned to the pavilion, he was reprimanded by his peers for not allowing Charles Studd, his partner, to get the runs. Although Studd was one of the best batsman in England, having alre

The Ashes. the hell with Govaskar trophy

Of course Ashes. For any Aussie, that is the ultimate series. BG is just another series like any other.

Deep down in heart everyone knows that BG seriies is the most thrilling series in cricket right now.

Most cricket experts agree with this.

The Ashes (and l am sure the Aussies would agree) for sheer drama, thrill and cricketing heroics whilst maintaining fair play and displaying sportsmanship (like Freddie and Brett Lee at Edgebaston in 05).

Of course the Indians would say the BG trophy, but l think to both the Aussies and the English alike there is nothing more pleasing than winning the Ashes

Ashes. Hard fought over history (Ok only 2005 recently), the original series and played in good spirit (most of the time, bodyline excepted).

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Of late Border-Gavaskar trophy has become more rivalry and has overtaken the popularity of Ashes series.

The Ashes. In the Border-Gavaskar series there is a lot of racism and l am TIRED OF IT! Unlike the Ashes it is just a rivalry, fair, and entertaining game. My favorite Ashes were the 2006-2006. Aussies get there revenge with 5-0!! My favorite Border- Gavaskar was the 2003-2004. Aussies win 2-1 at India. Those were the days!!!

Well your asking which one is thrilling so it definitely BG Series. l like to watch two best teams playing cricket. England team is not the best team. India already beat them 5-0 OD l so how would the ashes be more thrilling. Probably Australia sweep the series.