Australian cricket team in England in 1934
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RES Wyatt (CF Walters deputised) |
WM Woodfull | ||||||||||||
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M Leyland (478) CF Walters (401) H Sutcliffe (304) |
DG Bradman (758) WH Ponsford (569) SJ McCabe (483) | ||||||||||||
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H Verity (24) WE Bowes (19) K Farnes (10) |
WJ O'Reilly (28) CV Grimmett (25) TW Wall (6) |
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.
In the second Test of the series at Lord's, known as Verity's Match, left-arm spinner Hedley Verity took 15 wickets in the match to hand England their only victory in a Lord's Ashes Test in the twentieth century. The last two Tests of the series were notable for the prodigious runscoring of Bill Ponsford and Donald Bradman, who shared partnerships of at 388 at Headingley (scoring 181 and 304 respectively) and 451 at the Oval (scoring 266 and 244 respectively) in Ponsford's final Test.
One-day: Ceylon v Australians
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.[1]
Tour Matches
First-class Matches
2–3 May 1934 |
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Australians won by an innings and 297 runs |
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5–8 May 1934 |
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9–11 May 1934 |
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Australians won by an innings and 163 runs |
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12–15 May 1934 |
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16–18 May 1934 |
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Australians won by an innings and 93 runs |
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19–21 May 1934 |
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Australians won by an innings and 33 runs |
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23–25 May 1934 |
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26–28 May 1934 |
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Australians won by 10 wickets |
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30 May-1 June 1934 |
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2–5 June 1934 |
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Test Matches
First Test
8–12 June 1934 Scorecard |
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat
- Test debut: WA Brown, AG Chipperfield (Aus) and K Farnes (Eng)
Second Test
Third Test
Fourth Test
Fifth Test
18–22 August 1934 Scorecard |
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat
- Test debut: HI Ebeling (Aus)
References
- ↑ "Ceylon v Australia 1934". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
External links
Annual reviews
Further reading
- Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993