With no explanation, label text_A→text_B with either "DON'T KNOW", "NO" or "YES".
text_A: Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel "Life, the Universe and Everything" – the third part of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series – features the urn containing the Ashes as a significant element of its plot. Extra-terrestrial robots manage to steal the urn, because the burnt cricket stump itself is actually part of the key that they need to unfasten the locked "Wikkit Gate" to free the world of Krikkit, that is imprisoned therein.
text_B: If the cricket tournament managed to go off without a hitch, and the Ashes remained in the hands of one of the competing teams without ever leaving Earth, would the residents of Krikkit presumably be free to leave their planet?
NO.