Australian cricket team in England in 1884

rdf:langString Australian cricket team in England in 1884

rdf:langString No play on Day 1.

rdf:langString Arthur Shrewsbury 43

rdf:langString Billy Murdoch 211

rdf:langString Tup Scott 31*

rdf:langString Tup Scott 75

rdf:langString W. G. Grace 31

rdf:langString A. G. Steel 148

rdf:langString Arthur Shrewsbury 37

rdf:langString Billy Midwinter 37

rdf:langString Walter Read 117

rdf:langString Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

rdf:langString England won the toss and elected to bat.

rdf:langString Charles Pullin and Joseph Rowbotham

rdf:langString Frank Farrands and Charles Pullin

rdf:langString George Ulyett 7/36

rdf:langString Harry Boyle 6/42

rdf:langString Hon. A. Lyttelton 4/19

rdf:langString Joey Palmer 4/47

rdf:langString Ted Peate 6/85

rdf:langString George Giffen 1/18

rdf:langString George Ulyett 3/41

rdf:langString Joey Palmer 4/90

rdf:langString Joey Palmer 6/111

rdf:langString Report

rdf:langString Match drawn

rdf:langString England won by an innings and 5 runs

rdf:langString The Australia national cricket team toured England in 1884. The team is officially termed the Fourth Australians, following three previous tours in the 1878, 1880 and 1882 seasons. The 1884 tour was a private venture by the thirteen players who each invested an agreed sum to provide funding, none of Australia's colonial cricket associations being involved. Billy Murdoch captained the team and George Alexander acted as player-manager. The Australians played a total of 32 matches in England, 31 of which have first-class status. 1884 was the first English season to feature more than a single Test match. A three-match series was scheduled which included the inaugural Tests at both Old Trafford and Lord's. The third Test was played at the Oval which had staged the Tests in 1880 and 1882. England won the Test series 1–0 with an innings victory in the second Test at Lord's, while the first and third Tests were drawn. The 1884 series was the first Ashes series in England, following publication of the mock "ashes" obituary after the 1882 Test. The tour was dogged by financial controversy with the Australians accused by the British press of being interested only in money. The allegations were refuted by the Australian press but it later became clear, when an England team arrived in Australia the following winter, that there had been a financial dispute between Alexander and the English team manager James Lillywhite, resulting in the two teams at first boycotting each other. The dispute was never evident while Murdoch's team was in England as they completed all their scheduled fixtures, winning eighteen matches and losing seven with seven drawn.