The Australian cricket team played 31
first-class matches
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...
in England in 1893, including 3 Tests. One of the first-class matches was against the
Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present
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team in
Portsmouth
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Portsmouth is the most dens ...
. 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
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won the Test series 1–0 with two matches drawn.
First Test
Second Test
Third Test
Ceylon
As on previous voyages to England, the Australians had a stopover in
Colombo
Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...
and played a match on 5 April against a Ceylon team, which was drawn.
References
External links
CricketArchive – tour summaries
Annual reviews
* ''James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual'' (Red Lilly) 1894
*
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...
1894
Further reading
*
Bill Frindall
William Howard Frindall, (3 March 1939 – 29 January 2009) was an English cricket scorer and statistician, who was familiar to cricket followers as a member of the Test Match Special commentary team on BBC radio. He was nicknamed the Bearded ...
, ''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
1893 in Australian cricket
1893 in English cricket
1893 in Ceylon
International cricket competitions from 1888–89 to 1918
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
English cricket seasons in the 19th century
Sri Lankan cricket seasons from 1880–81 to 1971–72
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
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