Australian cricket team in England in 1896

The Australian cricket team played 34 first-class matches in England in 1896, including 3 Tests.

Test series

England won the Test series 2–1.

First Test

22–24 June 1896 Scorecard

Australia	v	England
53 (22.3 overs) J Darling 22 T Richardson 6/39 (11.3 overs)		292 (107.4 overs) R Abel 94 CJ Eady 3/58 (29 overs)
347 (133 overs) GHS Trott 143 JT Hearne 5/76 (36 overs)		111/4 (47.1 overs) JT Brown 36 E Jones 2/42 (23 overs)

England won by 6 wickets Lord's, London Umpires: J Phillips (AUS) and WAJ West (ENG)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• C Hill, CJ Eady, JJ Kelly (all AUS), and AFA Lilley (ENG) made their Test debuts.

Second Test

16–18 July 1896 Scorecard

Australia	v	England
412 (170 overs) FA Iredale 108 T Richardson 7/168 (68 overs)		231 (90 overs) AFA Lilley 65 TR McKibbin 3/45 (19 overs)
125/7 (84.3 overs) SE Gregory 33 T Richardson 6/76 (42.3 overs)		305 (f/o) (90.1 overs) KS Ranjitsinhji 154* TR McKibbin 3/61 (21 overs)

Australia won by 3 wickets Old Trafford, Manchester Umpires: A Chester (ENG) and J Phillips (AUS)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• KS Ranjitsinhji (ENG) made his Test debut.

Third Test

10–12 August 1896 Scorecard

England	v	Australia
145 (81.3 overs) FS Jackson 45 H Trumble 6/59 (40 overs)		119 (53.1 overs) J Darling 47 JT Hearne 6/41 (26.1 overs)
84 (49 overs) R Abel 21 H Trumble 6/30 (25 overs)		44 (26 overs) TR McKibbin 16 R Peel 6/23 (12 overs)

England won by 66 runs The Oval, London Umpires: W Hearn (ENG) and J Phillips (AUS)

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

Ceylon

As on previous voyages to England, the Australians had a stopover in Colombo and played a match on 1 April at Galle Face Green against a Ceylon team, which was drawn.^[1]

References

External links

• CricketArchive – tour summaries

Annual reviews

• James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly) 1897
• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1897

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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