Australian cricket team in England in 1893
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The Australian cricket team in England in 1893 played 31 first-class matches
including 3 Tests.
England won the Test series 1-0 with 2 matches drawn:
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
including 3 Tests.
England won the Test series 1-0 with 2 matches drawn:
- 1st Test (Lord's Cricket GroundLord's Cricket GroundLord's Cricket Ground is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board , the European Cricket Council and, until August 2005, the...
) – match drawn - 2nd Test (The OvalThe OvalThe Kia Oval, still commonly referred to by its original name of The Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth. In the past it was also sometimes called the Kennington Oval...
) – England won by an innings and 43 runs - 3rd Test (Old Trafford Cricket Ground) – match drawn
External sources
Annual reviews
- James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly) 1894
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1894
Further reading
- Bill FrindallBill FrindallWilliam Howard Frindall, MBE was an English cricket scorer and statistician. He was familiar to cricket followers from his appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme Test Match Special, nicknamed the Bearded Wonder by Brian Johnston for his ability to research the most obscure cricketing facts in...
, 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