Australian cricket team in England in 1893

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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
Scorecard

England	v	Australia
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)

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
Scorecard

England	v	Australia
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[edit]

24–26 August 1893
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
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)

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]

CricketArchive – tour summaries

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

The Ashes

List of Ashes series

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	1902		1905		1909		1912		World War I			1921		1926		1930		1934		1938		World War II			1948
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Non-Ashes Australia v England Test series
1876–77 1878–79 1880 1881–82 1882 1945 1976–77 1979–80 1980 1987–88 2027

Matches in white background were played in England, yellow – in Australia.

v t e England squad – Ashes 1893 (9th series win)
Grace (c) Briggs Brockwell Flowers Gunn Jackson Lockwood MacGregor (†) Mold Peel M. Read W. Read Richardson Shrewbury Stoddart (c)* Wainwright Ward
(c)* denotes acting captain for 1st test

International cricket tours of England

Test and LOI tours

Australia	1880 1882 1884 1886 1888 1890 1893 1896 1899 1902 1905 1909 1912 1921 1926 1930 1934 1938 1948 1953 1956 1961 1964 1968 1972 1975 1977 1980 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2010 2012 2013 2015 2018 2019 2020 2023 2024
Bangladesh	2005 2010
India	1932 1936 1946 1952 1959 1967 1971 1974 1979 1982 1986 1990 1996 2002 2004 2007 2011 2014 2018 2021 2022
Ireland	2017 2019 2020 2023
New Zealand	1931 1937 1949 1958 1965 1969 1973 1978 1983 1986 1990 1994 1999 2004 2008 2013 2015 2021 2022 2023
Pakistan	1954 1962 1967 1971 1974 1978 1982 1987 1992 1996 2001 2003 2006 2010 2016 2018 2019 2020 2021 2024
South Africa	1907 1912 1924 1929 1935 1947 1951 1955 1960 1965 1970 (cancelled) 1994 1998 2003 2008 2012 2017 2022
Sri Lanka	1984 1988 1991 1998 2002 2006 2011 2014 2016 2021
West Indies	1928 1933 1939 1950 1957 1963 1966 1969 1973 1976 1980 1984 1988 1991 1995 2000 2004 2007 2009 2011 2012 2017 2020
Zimbabwe	2000 2003 2025

Major tournaments hosted

Multiple teams	1912 1975 1979 1983 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2004 2005 2009 2013 2017 2019

Other tours

Australian	1868 1878 1919 1945 1988 2009 2018
Canadian	1954
Indian	1911
Multi-team	1932 1970 1972 1975 1987
New Zealand	1927 1945
Parsis	1886 1888
Philadelphian	1884 1889 1897 1903 1908
South African	1894 1901 1904 1961
Sri Lankan	1968 (cancelled) 1975 1979 1981 1990
West Indian	1900 1906 1923 1964
Zimbabwean	1982 1985 1986 1990 1993

Other tournaments hosted

Multiple teams	1979 1982 1986 2018

International cricket tours of Sri Lanka

Test and LOI tours
Afghanistan	2022-23 2023–24
Australia	1982–83 1992 1999 2003–04 2011 2016 2022
Bangladesh	2002 2005 2007 2012–13 2016–17 2019 2020–21
England	1981–82 1992–93 2000–01 2003–04 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2018–19 2020–21
India	1985 1993 1997 2001 2006 2008 2008–09 2010 2012 2015 2017 2021 2024
Ireland	2022–23
New Zealand	1983–84 1984–85 1986–87 1992–93 1998 2003 2009 2012–13 2013–14 2019
Pakistan	1985–86 1994 1996–97 2000 2005–06 2009 2012 2014 2015 2022 2023
South Africa	1993 2000 2004 2006 2013 2014 2018 2021–22
West Indies	1993–94 2001–02 2005 2010–11 2015-16 2019–20 2021–22
Zimbabwe	1983–84 1996–97 1997–98 2001–02 2017 2020–21 2021–22 2023–24

Tournaments hosted
Multiple teams	1986 1986 1994 1996 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2001–02 2001–02 2002 2004 2009 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012 2018

Other tours
Afghan	2009–10 2024
Australian	1884 1890 1893 1896 1912 1926 1930 1934 1935–36 1938 1945 1948 1953 1961 1964 1969 1981
Bangladeshi	1985–86
Canadian	2000–01 2009–10 2011–12
English	1882–83 1889–90 1891–92 1892–93 1894–95 1911–12 1920–21 1922–23 1924–25 1926–27 1928–29 1929–30 1932–33 1933–34 1935–36 1936–37 1936–37 1950–51 1951–52 1954–55 1958–59 1961–62 1962–63 1965–66 1968–69 1969–70 1972–73 1976–77 1977–78 1984–85 2000–01
Indian	1925–26 1944–45 1956–57 1973–74 1975–76
Kenyan	2001–02 2013–14
Malaysian	1893–94 1971–72
Multi-national	1930–31 1949–50 1950–51 1967–68
New Zealand	1927 1937–38
Pakistani	1948–49 1972–73 1975–76 1978–79
Scottish	2011–12 2013–14
West Indian	1948–49 1966–67 1974–75 1978–79
Irish	2020–21
South Africa A	2023

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Australian cricket team in England in 1893

Test series summary[edit]

First Test[edit]

Second Test[edit]

Third Test[edit]

Ceylon[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Annual reviews[edit]

Further reading[edit]

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