Australian cricket team in England in 1893

1893 Australian national cricket team

The Australian cricket team played 31first-class matchesin England in 1893, including 3 Tests. One of the first-class matches was against theOxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Presentteam inPortsmouth.In their first innings, the Australians scored 843 runs, with eight of their batsmen scoring half-centuries.This is the only instance in first-class cricket with eight half-centuries being scored in the same innings.

Test series summary

Englandwon the Test series 1–0 with two matches drawn.

First Test

17–19 July 1893 Scorecard

England	v	Australia
334 (125 overs) A Shrewsbury106 CTB Turner6/67 (36 overs)		269 (114.1 overs) H Graham107 WH Lockwood6/101 (45 overs)
234/8 (116.4 overs) A Shrewsbury81 G Giffen5/43 (26.4 overs)

Match drawn Lord's,London Umpires:W Hearn(ENG) andJ Phillips(AUS)

• England won the toss and elected to bat.
• FS Jackson,E Wainwright,WH Lockwood,AW Mold(all ENG), andH Graham(AUS) made their Test debuts.

Second Test

14–16 August 1893 Scorecard

England	v	Australia
483 (187 overs) FS Jackson103 G Giffen7/128 (54 overs)		91 (37.3 overs) JJ Lyons19 J Briggs5/34 (14.3 overs)
		349 (f/o) (98 overs) GHS Trott92 J Briggs5/114 (35 overs)

England won by an innings and 43 runs The Oval,London Umpires:CK Pullin(ENG) andH Draper(ENG)

• England won the toss and elected to bat.
• A Ward(ENG) made his Test debut.

Third Test

24–26 August 1893 Scorecard

Australia	v	England
204 (96.4 overs) W Bruce68 T Richardson5/49 (23.4 overs)		243 (140.2 overs) W Gunn102* G Giffen4/113 (67 overs)
236 (95.3 overs) AC Bannerman60 T Richardson5/107 (44 overs)		118/4 (63 overs) WG Grace45 H Trumble3/49 (25 overs)

Match drawn Old Trafford,Manchester Umpires: C Clements (ENG) andJ Phillips(AUS)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• W BrockwellandT Richardson(both ENG) made their Test debuts.

Ceylon

As on previous voyages to England, the Australians had a stopover inColomboand played a match on 5 April against a Ceylon team, which was drawn.

External links

• CricketArchive – tour summaries

Annual reviews

• James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual(Red Lilly) 1894
• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack1894

Further reading

• 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