The Ashes Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series – features the urn containing the Ashes as a significant element of its plot. The urn is stolen by alien robots, as the burnt stump inside is part of a key needed to unlock the "Wikkit Gate" and release an imprisoned world called Krikkit. "Bodyline", a fictionalised television miniseries based on the "Bodyline" Ashes series of 1932–33, was screened in Australia in 1984. The cast included Gary Sweet as Donald Bradman and Hugo Weaving as England captain Douglas Jardine. The Ashes The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The
English cricket team in the West Indies in 2013–14 English cricket team in the West Indies in 2013–14 The England cricket team toured the West Indies from 25 February to 13 March 2014, playing a three-match One Day International series and three T20I matches against the West Indies team. England won the ODI series 2–1, with the West Indies winning the T20 series by the same score. In the third ODI, England batsman Joe Root broke his right thumb when he was hit by the third ball of his innings, but went on to make a century; however, the injury was deemed serious enough to rule him out of