The Australian cricket team played 31

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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

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. 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

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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

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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 *

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1894