The England cricket team toured Australia in 1928–29. England, known as the MCC in matches outside the Tests, retained The Ashes, winning the first four Tests and losing the last for a 4–1 series victory.
| English cricket team in Australia in 1928–29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 18 October 1928 — 23 March 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | England won the 5-Test series 4-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writing in the 1930 Wisden, SJ Southerton wrote:[1]
England were stronger in batting, more reliable and consistent in bowling and very definitely superior in fielding.
The series was defined by the prodigious runscoring of Wally Hammond, playing his maiden Ashes series, who with a run of scores of 251 at Sydney, 200 and 32 at Melbourne, and 119 not out and 177 at Adelaide, scored a then-record series aggregate of 905 runs at an average of 113.12; the record has only been surpassed once, by Donald Bradman in the 1930 Ashes.[2] In the fifth Test, England's Jack Hobbs became the oldest player to score a Test century, at the age of 46 years and 82 days, a record that still stands.[3]
The MCC team
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The MCC touring party was:[1]
- Percy Chapman (Kent) (captain)
- Jack White (Somerset) (vice-captain)
- Douglas Jardine (Surrey)
- Jack Hobbs (Surrey)
- Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire)
- Wally Hammond (Gloucestershire)
- Patsy Hendren (Middlesex)
- Ernest Tyldesley (Lancashire)
- Phil Mead (Hampshire)
- Maurice Leyland (Yorkshire)
- Maurice Tate (Sussex)
- George Geary (Leicestershire)
- George Duckworth (Lancashire) (wicketkeeper)
- Les Ames (Kent) (wicketkeeper)
- Harold Larwood (Nottinghamshire)
- "Tich" Freeman (Kent)
- Sam Staples (Nottinghamshire)
Tests
editFirst Test
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521 (175.3 overs)
EH Hendren 169 (314) H Larwood 70 (132) JM Gregory 3/142 (42 overs) CV Grimmett 3/167 (40 overs) |
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- 2 December was taken as a rest day.
Second Test
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- 16 December was taken as a rest day.
Third Test
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- 30 December was taken as a rest day.
- This Test match still holds the record for the highest match aggregate (1497) without a no-ball extra.[4]
Fourth Test
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- 3 February was taken as a rest day.
Fifth Test
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519 (215.1 overs)
JB Hobbs 142 (301) M Leyland 137 (330) TW Wall 3/123 (49 overs) PM Hornibrook 3/142 (48 overs) |
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- 10 March was taken as a rest day.
Ceylon
editThe English team had a stopover in Colombo en route to Australia and played a one-day single-innings match there against the Ceylon national team, which at that time did not have Test status.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "Wisden: The Independent Voice of Cricket | Live Cricket Scores, News, Fixtures".
- ^ Test records: most runs in a series
- ^ "How many batters have made their first two centuries in the same Test?". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
- ^ Walmsley, Keith (2003). Mosts Without in Test Cricket. Reading, England: Keith Walmsley. p. 375. ISBN 0947540067.
- ^ "Ceylon v MCC 1928". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
Further reading
edit- Ralph Barker & Irving Rosenwater, England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877–1968, Batsford, 1969, ISBN 0-7134-0317-9.
- Percy Fender, The Turn of the Wheel: MCC Team in Australia 1928–29, London, 1929
- 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
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1930
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