Australian cricket team in England in 1893

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

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

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

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

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

External links

• CricketArchive – tour summaries

Annual reviews

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

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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