The Australian cricket team played 31 first-class matches in England in 1893, including 3 Tests. One of the first-class matches was against the Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present team in Portsmouth. In their first innings, the Australians scored 843 runs, with eight of their batsmen scoring half-centuries.[1] This is the only instance in first-class cricket with eight half-centuries being scored in the same innings.[2]
Test series summary edit
England won the Test series 1–0 with two matches drawn.
First Test edit
17–19 July 1893
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- England won the toss and elected to bat.
- FS Jackson, E Wainwright, WH Lockwood, AW Mold (all ENG), and H Graham (AUS) made their Test debuts.
Second Test edit
14–16 August 1893
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- England won the toss and elected to bat.
- A Ward (ENG) made his Test debut.
Third Test edit
24–26 August 1893
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- W Brockwell and T Richardson (both ENG) made their Test debuts.
Ceylon edit
As on previous voyages to England, the Australians had a stopover in Colombo and played a match on 5 April against a Ceylon team, which was drawn.[3]
References edit
- ^ "Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present v Australians". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ "Is Heather Knight's 168 the highest score by an England women's captain in a Test?". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ "Ceylon v Australians 1893". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
External links edit
Annual reviews edit
- James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly) 1894
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1894
Further reading edit
- Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
- Ray Robinson, On Top Down Under, Cassell, 1975
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