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

Test series summary

First Test

England	v	Australia
32/0 (17.2 overs) JB Hobbs 19*

• England won the toss and elected to bat.
• 13 June was taken as a rest day.
• There was no play on the second or third days.
• CF Root (ENG) and WM Woodfull (AUS) made their Test debuts.

Second Test

Australia	v	England
383 (154.5 overs) W Bardsley 193* R Kilner 4/70 (34.5 overs)		475/3d (168 overs) EH Hendren 127* J Ryder 1/70 (25 overs)
194/5 (88 overs) CG Macartney 133* CF Root 2/40 (19 overs)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• 27 June was taken as a rest day.
• H Larwood (ENG) made his Test debut.

England's top five batsmen all passed 50 in their innings.

Third Test

Australia	v	England
494 (165 overs) CG Macartney 151 MW Tate 4/99 (51 overs)		294 (128 overs) GG Macaulay 76 CV Grimmett 5/88 (39 overs)
		254/3 (f/o) (86 overs) H Sutcliffe 94 CV Grimmett 2/59 (29 overs)

• England won the toss and elected to field.
• 11 July was taken as a rest day.

Fourth Test

Australia	v	England
335 (150.2 overs) WM Woodfull 117 CF Root 4/84 (52 overs)		305/5 (125 overs) GE Tyldesley 74 AA Mailey 3/87 (27 overs)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• 25 July was taken as a rest day.
• There were only 1.4 overs bowled on the first day.

Fifth Test

England	v	Australia
280 (95.5 overs) H Sutcliffe 76 AA Mailey 6/138 (33.5 overs)		302 (152.1 overs) JM Gregory 73 MW Tate 3/40 (37.1 overs)
436 (182.5 overs) H Sutcliffe 161 CV Grimmett 3/108 (55 overs)		125 (52.3 overs) WAS Oldfield 23 W Rhodes 4/44 (20 overs)

• England won the toss and elected to bat.
• 15 August was taken as a rest day.
• The match was completed in four days.

England regained the Ashes by winning the final match. Because the series was at stake, the match was to be "timeless", i.e. played to a finish. Australia had a narrow first innings lead of 22. Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe took the score to 49–0 at the end of the second day, a lead of 27. Heavy rain fell overnight, and next day the pitch soon developed into a traditional sticky wicket. England seemed certain to be bowled out cheaply and to lose the match. In spite of the very difficult batting conditions, however, Hobbs and Sutcliffe took their partnership to 172 before Hobbs was out for exactly 100. Sutcliffe went on to make 161 and in the end England won the game comfortably.

Ceylon

As on some previous visits to England, the Australian team had a stopover en route in Colombo and played a one-day single-innings match against the Ceylon national team which at that time did not have first-class status. The Australians won by 37 runs.

References

1. "AUS vs ENG, Australia tour of England 1926, 2nd Test at London, June 26 - 29, 1926 - Full Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo.
2. "England v Australia 1926, Fourth Test Match". Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, 1927. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
3. "Ceylon v Australia 1925-26". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 July 2014.

External links

• Australia in England, 1926 at Cricinfo
• Australia to England 1926 at Test Cricket Tours website
• Australia in British Isles 1926 at CricketArchive website
• The 1926 Australian team on YouTube on Pathé News

Annual reviews

• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1927

Further reading

• Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
• Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
• England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877-1968, by Ralph Barker & Irving Rosenwater, Batsford, 1969, ISBN 0-7134-0317-9.

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