Australian cricket team in England in 1938

Last updated

The 1938 Ashes series between Australia and England was drawn. England and Australia won a Test each, with two of the other Tests drawn and the third game of the series, scheduled for Manchester, abandoned without a ball being bowled, only the second instance of this in more than 60 years of Test cricket. The Australians retained The Ashes.

Contents

In all 30 first-class matches were played, and the Australian team won 15 of them losing only to England and H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI. There were also six minor games, the Australians winning five of them.

The touring team

Manager: WH Jeanes (SA)

The team travelled to England on the P&O liner RMS Strathmore. [1]

Test series summary

First Test

10, 11, 13, 14 June 1938
(4-day match)
Scorecard
v
658/8d (188 overs)
E Paynter 216* (333)
LO Fleetwood-Smith 4/153 (49 overs)
411 (130.3 overs)
SJ McCabe 232 (277)
K Farnes 4/106 (37 overs)
427/6d (f/o) (188 overs)
DG Bradman 144* (379)
H Verity 3/102 (62 overs)
Match drawn
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Umpires: F Chester and E Robinson

Second Test

24, 25, 27, 28 June 1938
(4-day match)
Scorecard
v
494 (137.3 overs)
WR Hammond 240 (394)
WJ O'Reilly 4/93 (37 overs)
422 (121.4 overs)
WA Brown 206* (370)
H Verity 4/103 (35.4 overs)
242/8d (72 overs)
DCS Compton 76* (137)
EL McCormick 3/72 (24 overs)
204/6 (48.2 overs)
DG Bradman 102* (135)
WJ Edrich 2/27 (5.2 overs)
Match drawn
Lord's, London
Umpires: EJ Smith and FI Walden
  • England won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 26 June was taken as a rest day.

Third Test

8, 9, 11, 12 July 1938
(4-day match)
Scorecard
v
Match abandoned without a ball bowled
Old Trafford, Manchester
Umpires: A Dolphin and W Reeves
  • No toss made.

Fourth Test

22, 23, 25 July 1938
(4-day match)
Scorecard
v
223 (98.1 overs)
WR Hammond 76
WJ O'Reilly 5/66 (34.1 overs)
242 (98.4 overs)
DG Bradman 103
K Farnes 4/77 (26 overs)
123 (50.5 overs)
CJ Barnett 29
WJ O'Reilly 5/56 (21.5 overs)
107/5 (32.3 overs)
AL Hassett 33
DVP Wright 3/26 (5 overs)
Australia won by 5 wickets
Headingley, Leeds
Umpires: F Chester and EJ Smith
  • England won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 24 July was taken as a rest day.
  • The match was scheduled for four days but completed in three.
  • WFF Price (ENG) and MG Waite (AUS) made their Test debuts.

Fifth Test

20, 22, 23, 24 August 1938
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard
v
903/7d (335.2 overs)
L Hutton 364
WJ O'Reilly 3/178 (85 overs)
201 (52.1 overs)
WA Brown 69
WE Bowes 5/49 (19 overs)
123 (f/o) (34.1 overs)
BA Barnett 46
K Farnes 4/63 (12.1 overs)
England won by an innings and 579 runs
The Oval, London
Umpires: F Chester and FI Walden
  • England won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 21 August was taken as a rest day.
  • The match was completed in four days.
  • A Wood (ENG) and SG Barnes (AUS) made their Test debuts.

The England total of 903-7d is the highest Test innings total to feature a duck - Eddie Paynter was dismissed for 0. [2]

Ceylon

The Australians had a stopover in Colombo en route to England and played a one-day single-innings match there against the Ceylon national team, which at that time did not have Test status. [3]

Related Research Articles

The tour by the Australian cricket team in England in 1981 included the 51st Ashes series of Test matches between Australia and England. Despite having been 1–0 down after two Tests, England won the next three to finish 3–1 victors, thus retaining the Ashes.

An England team toured Australia between November 1920 and March 1921. The tour was organised by the Marylebone Cricket Club and matches outside the Tests were played under the MCC name. The tour itinerary consisted of 13 first-class matches, including a series of 5 Test matches against Australia in which The Ashes were at stake.

Australia won the 1921 Ashes series held in England. They won the first three matches against England, which meant that they had won eight in succession, an unequalled sequence in Ashes Tests, following the 5-0 drubbing they had administered to England in the 1920–21 season in Australia. The last two matches of the Test series were drawn. England chose 30 different players across the five Tests - still the record for the most players used by one side in a series.

Marylebone Cricket Club organised the England cricket team's tour of Australia in the 1924–25 season. Australia won the Ashes series 4–1.

England won the 1926 Ashes series against Australia, winning the last Test of the series after the first four matches were drawn.

Australia won the 1930 Ashes series against England, winning two of the matches and losing one, with the other two tests drawn. The Australian tourists were captained by Bill Woodfull, while the home side were led by Percy Chapman, who was dropped in favour of Bob Wyatt in the final Test.

Australia won the 1934 Ashes series against England, winning two of the matches and losing one, with the other two tests drawn. The Australian tourists were captained by Bill Woodfull, while the home side were led by Bob Wyatt, with Cyril Walters deputising for Wyatt in the first Test.

The England cricket team toured Australia in the 1936–37 season to play a five-match Test series against Australia for The Ashes. The tour was organised by the Marylebone Cricket Club and matches outside the Tests were played under the MCC name.

The 1961 Australian cricket tour of England began with a three-day match versus Worcestershire at the County Ground, New Road, Worcester on Saturday 29 April, play continuing on Monday 1 May and Tuesday 2 May. This match was rain-affected and ended in a draw. The tour ended at Trinity College Park, Dublin on 19 September when the Australians completed a 282 run victory in a two-day match versus Ireland.

The Australian cricket team toured England in the 1964 season to play a five-match Test series against England for The Ashes. Australia won the series 1–0 with 4 matches drawn and therefore retained The Ashes.

The Australian cricket team toured England in the 1968 season to play a five-match Test series against England for The Ashes. Australia retained The Ashes after the series was drawn 1-1.

The Australian cricket team toured England in the 1972 season to play a five-match Test series against England for the Ashes. The series was drawn 2–2 and England retained the Ashes. This was the last drawn series until 2019. The two sides also played a three-match ODI series, which England won 2–1.

The England cricket team toured Australia in the 1978–79 season to play a six-match Test series against Australia for The Ashes. England won the series 5-1, thereby retaining The Ashes.

The Australian cricket team toured England in the 1985 season to play a six-match Test series against England. England won the series 3–1 with two matches drawn. England therefore regained The Ashes.

The Australian cricket team in England in 1909 played 42 first-class matches, including five Test matches to contest The Ashes. Australia was captained by Monty Noble, England by Archie MacLaren. The third Test of the series, at Headingley, was the 100th Test match to be played by England.

The Australia national cricket team toured South Africa from October 1949 to March 1950 and played a five-match Test series against the South African team. Australia won the Test series 4-0. Australia were captained by Lindsay Hassett; South Africa by Dudley Nourse.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">English cricket team in Australia in 1882–83</span> Cricket tour

An English cricket team toured Australia and Ceylon in 1882–83. Captained by Ivo Bligh, the team was on a quest "to recover those Ashes", a reference to the famous RIP notice that was published in the aftermath of England's defeat by Australia at The Oval in the previous English season.

The England national cricket team toured Australia and Ceylon in 1891–92.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">English cricket team in Australia in 1911–12</span> International cricket tour

An English cricket team toured Australia in 1911–12. It was led by Plum Warner, but Johnny Douglas took over the captaincy for all five Test matches when Warner fell ill early in the tour. Despite losing the first Test at Sydney, a side which included Jack Hobbs, Frank Woolley, Sydney Barnes and Wilfred Rhodes hit back to win the remaining four Tests. They thus regained The Ashes.

The English cricket team's tour to Australia in 1903–04 was the first time the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) took over responsibility for sponsoring and arranging an overseas tour representing England. England had not won the Ashes since the 1896 series in England. The MCC appointed Plum Warner to put together and captain a team, which was very much seen as the underdogs against Australia. Warner and his team, however, pulled off the upset the English were looking for and won the five-Test series 3–2. In the first Test at Sydney, R.E. "Tip" Foster scored 287 to set the world record for the highest individual Test innings; the innings remains the highest by a Test debutant.

References

  1. Gideon Haigh, The Book of Ashes Anecdotes, p. 61
  2. Walmsley, Keith (2003). Mosts Without in Test Cricket. Reading, England: Keith Walmsley. p. 353. ISBN   0947540067.
  3. "Ceylon v Australia 1938" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 June 2014.

Annual reviews

Further reading