{"id":215245,"date":"2025-10-21T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215245\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:34:10","slug":"rugby-league-ashes-what-is-its-history-and-is-it-like-crickets-ashes-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215245\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby League Ashes: What is its history and is it like cricket’s Ashes series?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In short, for many years, the game had changed.<\/p>\n

Appetite down under for international rugby league waned as the yearly State of Origin series, which pits representative players from New South Wales and Queensland against each other in a best-of-three competition, took precedence, along with the National Rugby League (NRL).<\/p>\n

In recent times, however, international rugby league has enjoyed something of a revival.<\/p>\n

Australia’s squad bonded three years ago on their way to winning the Covid-delayed 2021 Rugby League World Cup, reinstating their passion for the green and gold shirt.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Pacific Championships have emerged as a successful tournament involving the Kangaroos, New Zealand, Tonga and Samoa. <\/p>\n

Those factors have led to Australia committing to a three-Test tour of England for the first time in a generation.<\/p>\n

It is all the more impressive, given the intensity with which the NRL is played, that Australia have committed to travelling to these shores for a much-anticipated series.<\/p>\n

This article is the latest from BBC Sport’s Ask Me Anything<\/a> team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In short, for many years, the game had changed. Appetite down under for international rugby league waned as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-215245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}