2013 Ashes series
| 2013 Ashes series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Part of Australian cricket team in England in 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Investec Ashes Series 2013 logo
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| Date | 10 July – 25 August 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | England won the five-Test series 3–0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Player of the series |
Ian Bell (Eng) and Ryan Harris (Aus) Compton–Miller Medal: Ian Bell (Eng) |
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| Teams | |||
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 England
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 Australia
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| Captains | |||
| Alastair Cook | Michael Clarke | ||
| Most runs | |||
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Ian Bell (562) Kevin Pietersen (388) Joe Root (339) |
Shane Watson (418) Michael Clarke (381) Chris Rogers (367) |
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| Most wickets | |||
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Graeme Swann (26) Stuart Broad (22) James Anderson (22) |
Ryan Harris (24) Peter Siddle (17) Mitchell Starc (11) |
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The 2013 Ashes series was a series of Test cricket matches contested between England and Australia for the Ashes. It formed part of the 2013 Australian tour of England, which also included the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, five One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals.
The 2013 series is the first of two back-to-back Ashes series. With the intent of breaking the cycle of Ashes series being held directly before Cricket World Cups, the Ashes were brought forward in the schedule by one year, starting with the 2013–14 series in Australia.
England won the series 3–0, with wins at Trent Bridge, Lord's and the Riverside Ground; the matches at Old Trafford and The Oval finished as draws.
The five venues used in the series were Trent Bridge, Lord's, Old Trafford, the Riverside Ground and The Oval. There were questions as to whether Lord's would host an Ashes match – it would have been the first time since 1882 that Lord's had not hosted an Ashes Test – but the venues were eventually confirmed to include Lord's on 22 September 2011. On 1 June 2012, it was announced that the first Test was scheduled to take place at Trent Bridge.
It was the first Ashes series held in England since 1977 not to include a match at Edgbaston.
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