Australian cricket team in England in 1893 explained

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.

Third Test

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]

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

Notes and References

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