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English cricket team in Australia in 1924–25

Newspaper article describing batting on the fifth day of the first Ashes test, with Taylor's 108 in the record 10th wicket partnership.

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

Test series summary

First Test

The first Test included a record 127 run tenth wicket partnership between Johnny Taylor and Arthur Mailey which stood as Australia's best for that wicket until Phillip Hughes and Ashton Agar set a new world record by scoring 163 for the tenth wicket against England in the First Test at Trent Bridge in July 2013.

Second Test

  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 4 January was taken as a rest day
  • AEV Hartkopf (AUS) made his Test debut.

Third Test

  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 18 January was taken as a rest day
  • WW Whysall (ENG) made his Test debut.

Fourth Test

  • England won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 15 February was taken as a rest day.

Fifth Test

  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 1 March was taken as a rest day
  • AF Kippax and CV Grimmett (both AUS) made their Test debuts.
JW Hearne and FE Woolley batting, at 4–78 in England's first innings of the Fifth Test at Sydney, chasing Australia's 295 all out.

Ceylon

The English team had a stopover in Colombo en route to Australia and played a one-day single-innings match there against the Ceylon national team, which at that time did not have Test status.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Ceylon v MCC 1924". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 July 2014.

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