The Ashes Betting Odds

Australia have the urn; England have home advantage and five Tests in which to change that. Check the latest 2027 Ashes odds, series betting and live markets at Parimatch.

The Ashes - Series Winner

The Ashes 2027 - Series Winner

1 June at 10:00

Series Winner

Another English summer, another attempt to prise the little urn away from Australia. The tourists arrive as holders after a thumping 4-1 victory on home soil in 2025/26. For England, the equation is wonderfully unforgiving: win the next series or leave the Ashes in Australian hands.

That contest now has dates and venues. Trent Bridge opens the series on 18 June, before Lord's, Edgbaston and the Utilita Bowl lead into the finale at the Kia Oval. Southampton's appearance is a first for a men's Ashes Test.

The latest series-winner prices appear above this guide. They can change as the teams approach the opening morning, so use the live market rather than an old quoted price. You can also visit cricket betting for today's wider fixture list.

Circle Friday 18 June. The first ball is due at Trent Bridge that day, and six and a half weeks of Test cricket will carry the rivalry through to its scheduled finish at the Oval on Monday 2 August.

Neither side has named its Ashes squad yet. Any early discussion around selections remains prediction rather than confirmation, particularly with almost a year of international cricket still to be played. The official schedule is settled:

Test	Venue	Dates
1st	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	18-22 June 2027
2nd	Lord's, London	30 June-4 July 2027
3rd	Edgbaston, Birmingham	8-12 July 2027
4th	Utilita Bowl, Southampton	21-25 July 2027
5th	Kia Oval, London	29 July-2 August 2027

The live listings will add start times nearer the series. Those closing dates assume each game reaches day five, of course. A Test is over whenever a side forces the result, whether that takes two days or all five.

It is Australia who make the trip with the urn tucked away. Three straight wins to begin the 2025/26 contest settled ownership before Christmas. England finally answered at the Boxing Day Test, only for the hosts to finish the job in Sydney and send the scoreline out to 4-1.

That detail gives the outright market an extra wrinkle. Two wins each and a draw would not bring England half the prize; the existing holder keeps it whenever a series ends level. Nothing short of an outright victory will deliver England's first Ashes success since 2015.

Australia's present grip stretches back to 2017/18. The two tours since then, 2019 and 2023, both finished level, which was enough for them, and comfortable home wins followed in 2021/22 and 2025/26. England came close on home pitches without actually getting the job done.

There wasn't much mystery about the final score. Perth and Brisbane produced near-matching eight-wicket wins for Australia. Adelaide brought an 82-run margin and, with it, an unbeatable 3-0 lead.

Only at the MCG did England find an answer. A four-wicket victory there broke their long run without an Ashes Test win in Australia and, at least, removed the threat of another whitewash. Sydney restored the pattern: set 160, the hosts got home with five wickets left.

Two Australians did most to shape the series. Travis Head piled up 629 runs; no England player passed Joe Root's 400. With the ball, Mitchell Starc's 31 wickets earned him the Compton-Miller Medal.

Useful evidence? Certainly. A ready-made forecast for 2027? Hardly. The next contest brings a different country, five different surfaces and another eighteen months of selection calls before it is complete.

Ashes betting begins with one big question, where will the urn end up? then breaks the cricket into smaller pieces. One price can span all five Tests, another a single innings, and another one batter's afternoon. A quick read of the full title is worthwhile, since two familiar-looking choices may not be settled alike.

Ashes Series Winner

This is the main outright market. England, Australia and a drawn series may all be listed as separate selections.

Remember that “drawn series” means the five-match contest finishes level, perhaps 2-2 with one drawn Test. It is different from an individual Test ending in a draw. Australia would retain the urn in that situation, but a drawn-series selection and an Australia series-win selection are not the same bet.

Correct Series Score

Here the winner is only half the call; you also need the margin. England 3-2 allows no room for a drawn Test, whereas 3-1 leaves one match without a winner. One small digit changes the bet completely.

Greater precision normally brings a larger price and fewer ways to win. Weather can also affect the route to a correct score over a long English summer.

Test Match Result

For an individual Test, the familiar three names on the board are England, Australia and the draw. Four excellent days do not settle a win bet. Unless the chosen side completes the victory, the draw remains the result when time runs out.

That third option is no technical curiosity in a game built to last five days. A stubborn pitch, two slow innings or an afternoon lost to rain can make it central to the market.

Top Series Batter

Back the player you think will score the most runs across the series. Availability matters here. Missing one Test can be costly, while a settled place near the top of the order usually supplies more opportunities at the crease.

Event rules explain how ties are handled. Read them before betting, especially if two players finish level.

Top Series Bowler

This market concerns wickets rather than runs. Conditions may alter the balance between pace and spin from venue to venue, while selection and workload can be just as important as reputation.

Starc's 31 wickets dominated the last series. That does not automatically make the 2027 leader easy to identify: English surfaces, team rotation and fitness could change the picture.

Player Runs and Wickets

Individual-match markets may set a line for a batter's runs or a bowler's wickets. The choice is then whether the player finishes over or under it.

Always check whether a runs line covers one innings or the whole match. For bowlers, confirm whether the total combines both innings and what happens if the player is named but does not take the field.

Innings and Match Totals

Totals markets focus on a team's score or a combined figure. Rather than naming the match winner, you decide whether the eventual total lands above or below the displayed line.

The toss, surface and forecast can materially change the setting. A price visible several days out may look different once the teams and conditions are known.

In-Play Ashes Betting

Once play begins, available markets can move with the score. A new ball, a wicket before lunch or a long partnership may reshape the match price within minutes.

The in-play betting page shows what is open at that moment. Keep an eye on the score displayed beside the market as live feeds and television coverage do not always arrive in perfect step.

An early outright price reflects today's view of a series many months away. By the first toss, several parts of that calculation may have moved.

Home Conditions

England have the advantage of familiar grounds and a Duke's ball which can reward movement through the air and off the seam. Australia, however, drew their two previous series in England and will not arrive unfamiliar with local conditions.

The five venues will not behave identically. Form at Trent Bridge does not guarantee the same result at Lord's or the Oval.

Form and Team Selection

A famous name can stay famous long after the runs or wickets have slowed. The months before June will tell us more: who is making Test runs now, whose pace has held up and which newcomers have made themselves impossible to omit?

Squads are not yet confirmed. Injuries, retirements, new players and changes in leadership could all alter the market before June.

The Draw and Retention Rule

Australia's ability to retain the urn with a tied series changes the wider story, though it does not turn a draw into an Australian series victory for betting purposes.

Read the exact selection. “Australia to win the series”, “Australia to retain the Ashes” and “Australia or draw” can describe different settlement conditions.

Weather, Pitch and Toss

No English forecast deserves five days of blind trust. Long spells of rain eat into the 20 wickets needed for victory; cloud and a green morning pitch can instead give the bowlers a sudden opening.

The toss reveals which team chooses the first use of those conditions. Its effect is more immediate on a Test market than on a series price, but one result can shift the outright odds too.

Market Movement

Ashes odds may shorten or drift as bets arrive and fresh information becomes public. A squad announcement or injury can contribute; sometimes the move simply reflects the balance of money.

Movement records a change in price. It does not guarantee which side will win.

One Australian victory and a wonderfully melodramatic newspaper joke gave the rivalry its name. Australia won at the Oval on 29 August 1882. The following day, The Sporting Times ran a mock obituary announcing the death of English cricket and the removal of its ashes to Australia.

Ivo Bligh soon set sail with an England team and a promise to bring them back. During that tour, a small terracotta urn was given to him at Rupertswood, outside Melbourne. Bligh kept the object as a personal memento; much later it passed to MCC, whose museum at Lord's remains its home.

So the fragile original does not bounce between dressing rooms every couple of years. It is the symbol everyone recognises. Captains have lifted a larger Waterford Crystal version after winning the series since 1998/99.

The tour of 2025/26 took the count to 74 men's series. Australia's latest victory was their 35th, three more than England, with the remaining seven ending level. On six of those drawn occasions the Australians were already holders; England benefited from the same rule once.

The individual-Test ledger is wider. After Sydney there had been 350: Australia won 146, England 111 and 93 ended in draws. Sir Donald Bradman's 5,028 runs still tower over the batting records, while Shane Warne's 195 wickets remain the mark for every bowler to chase.

They are magnificent numbers, though none can nick off a batter in Nottingham next June. The market above is pricing the sides of 2027, not asking 143 years of history to play the match for them.

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When Is the Next Ashes?

The 2027 Ashes series begins at Trent Bridge on 18 June 2027. After matches at Lord's, Edgbaston and the Utilita Bowl, the fifth Test is scheduled to conclude at the Kia Oval on 2 August 2027.