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
[edit]England won the Test series 2–1.
First Test
[edit]22–24 June 1896
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- 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
[edit]16–18 July 1896
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- KS Ranjitsinhji (ENG) made his Test debut.
Third Test
[edit]10–12 August 1896
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- England won the toss and elected to bat.
- EG Wynyard (ENG) made his Test debut.
Ceylon
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Ceylon v Australians 1896". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
External links
[edit]Annual reviews
[edit]- James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly) 1897
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1897
Further reading
[edit]- 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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