1893 Australian national cricket team

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

England won the Test series 1–0 with two matches drawn.

First Test

17–19 July 1893
Scorecard
v
334 (125 overs)
A Shrewsbury 106
CTB Turner 6/67 (36 overs)
269 (114.1 overs)
H Graham 107
WH Lockwood 6/101 (45 overs)
234/8 (116.4 overs)
A Shrewsbury 81
G Giffen 5/43 (26.4 overs)
Match drawn
Lord's, London
Umpires: W Hearn (ENG) and J Phillips (AUS)

Second Test

14–16 August 1893
Scorecard
v
483 (187 overs)
FS Jackson 103
G Giffen 7/128 (54 overs)
91 (37.3 overs)
JJ Lyons 19
J Briggs 5/34 (14.3 overs)
349 (f/o) (98 overs)
GHS Trott 92
J Briggs 5/114 (35 overs)
England won by an innings and 43 runs
The Oval, London
Umpires: CK Pullin (ENG) and H Draper (ENG)
  • England won the toss and elected to bat.
  • A Ward (ENG) made his Test debut.

Third Test

24–26 August 1893
Scorecard
v
204 (96.4 overs)
W Bruce 68
T Richardson 5/49 (23.4 overs)
243 (140.2 overs)
W Gunn 102*
G Giffen 4/113 (67 overs)
236 (95.3 overs)
AC Bannerman 60
T Richardson 5/107 (44 overs)
118/4 (63 overs)
WG Grace 45
H Trumble 3/49 (25 overs)
Match drawn
Old Trafford, Manchester
Umpires: C Clements (ENG) and J Phillips (AUS)

Ceylon

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

  1. ↑ "Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present v Australians". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Is Heather Knight's 168 the highest score by an England women's captain in a Test?". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  3. ↑ "Ceylon v Australians 1893". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2014.

Annual reviews

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


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