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. This is the only instance in first-class cricket with eight half-centuries being scored in the same innings.

Test series summary

England won the Test series 1–0 with two matches drawn.

Australian cricket team in England in 1893

First Test

Second Test

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.

Australian cricket team in England in 1893

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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Australian cricket team in England in 1893