| 1997 Ashes series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 5 June 1997 – 25 August 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location |  England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Australia won the six-Test series 3–2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Player of the series | Glenn McGrath (Aus) and Graham Thorpe (Eng) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Australian cricket team toured England in the 1997 season to play a six-match Ashes Test series against England. Australia, under Mark Taylor, won the series 3–2 with strong batting performances from Matthew Elliott supporting the decisive bowling of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie.
England had enjoyed good form leading up to the series, with a 3–0 One Day International victory, and success in New Zealand; however, after winning convincingly in the first Test the host team struggled. Graham Thorpe and Nasser Hussain both scored over 400 runs for England, with Andrew Caddick the leading wicket-taker.
This was the only Ashes series between 1987 and 2005 in which England won a match before Australia had already taken an unassailable lead in the series.