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Australia Cricket

The Australia Cricket team took on the England cricket team in what we now view as the first ever Ashes series was played in Australia in 1882, though England can of course boast the invention of the term ‘the Ashes’ earlier in that same year. The intense rivalry between Australia and England that caught the public imagination right at the beginning is still going strong today, and a hard core of England fans are always willing to travel to Australia to support their team.

One thing that both England fans and players have to get used to is the Australian summer climate. This is particularly difficult given the fact that the summer in Australia coincides with winter in England, and the England team is always careful to arrive in Australia well before the start of the first Ashes series Test match.

Given the fact that summer in Australia includes the month of December, it has become something of a tradition to hold an Ashes Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Boxing Day. This game is just as well supported as any of the others, and many fans of the Australian cricket team view it as something of a highlight game, though of course all Ashes Tests are equally important.

Australia is a much larger country than the United Kingdom (2.96 million square miles as opposed to 94,500 square miles) so both teams generally have to do a lot more internal travelling to get from one Ashes venue to the next than they do when the Ashes series is played in England. This gives neither team a direct advantage, but it could be argued that the additional travelling in unusually hot conditions is much more of a challenge for the England team than it is for Australia. Of course, the Australian cricket team has the rain to deal with when playing in England, so these things balance out quite fairly overall.

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