The English cricket team in Australia in 1998–99 lost the
Ashes series
The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, ''The Sporting Times'', immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Te ...
. Of the five matches, one was drawn, Australia won three and England won one. Australian captain
Mark Taylor won all five coin tosses at the start of the games. After this series there was a
tri-nation series which involved
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
Test series
1st Test
2nd Test
3rd Test
4th Test
5th Test
References
* ''Playfair Cricket Annual''
* ''Wisden Cricketers Almanack''
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