The Australian cricket team played 31 first-class matches 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 Portsmouth. In their first innings, the Australians scored 843 runs, with eight of their batsmen scoring half-centuries.[1] This is the only instance in first-class cricket with eight half-centuries being scored in the same innings.[2]
Test series summary
England won the Test series 1–0 with two matches drawn.
