English cricket team in Australia in 1990–91

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England in Australia in 1990/91

	Australia	England
Dates	25 October 1990 – 5 February 1991
Captains	Allan Border	Graham Gooch
Test series
Result	Australia won the 5-match series 3–0
Most runs	David Boon (530)	Graham Gooch (426)
Most wickets	Bruce Reid (27)	Devon Malcolm (16)

The England cricket team toured Australia during the 1990–91 cricket season to compete in a five-match Test series against Australia for the Ashes. While in Australia, England also played a number of tour matches against state and representative teams, and competed in the one-day international (ODI) World Series Cup against Australia and New Zealand. At the conclusion of the tour, England flew to New Zealand to participate in a three-game ODI series.

Under the captaincy of Graham Gooch, England were unable to regain the Ashes, losing the series 3–0.

Touring squad

The England squad flew out to Australia on 18 October 1990. The personnel was vastly different due to the turbulent years that had followed the previous tour to Australia, which had been won 2–1 under Mike Gatting, who had chosen to captain an England XI on a rebel tour of South Africa and subsequently had been banned from Test cricket for three years. Following the humiliation of the 1989 Ashes series defeat, Graham Gooch replaced David Gower as captain and although England continued their streak of series defeats against West Indies (going down 2–1 after winning the First Test), they won back much respect, and then followed up with series wins against India and New Zealand during the home summer.

As a result, although the initial squad contained a number of inexperienced Test players (only five squad members – Gooch, Gower, Allan Lamb, Gladstone Small and Eddie Hemmings – had been on earlier tours of Australia), journalists such as former Test cricketer Mike Selvey (writing for The Guardian at the time) felt somewhat confident that England could match it with the Australians.

Graham Gooch (c) (Essex)
Allan Lamb (vc) (Northamptonshire)
Michael Atherton (Lancashire)
Wayne Larkins (Northamptonshire)
David Gower (Hampshire)
Robin Smith (Hampshire)
John Morris (Derbyshire)
Alec Stewart (wk) (Surrey)
Jack Russell (wk) (Gloucestershire)
Chris Lewis (Leicestershire)
Eddie Hemmings (Nottinghamshire)
Phil Tufnell (Middlesex)
Angus Fraser (Middlesex)
Devon Malcolm (Derbyshire)
Gladstone Small (Warwickshire)
Martin Bicknell (Surrey)

Phillip DeFreitas (Lancashire) Hugh Morris (Glamorgan) and Phil Newport (Worcestershire) received subsequent call-ups to cover or replace injured players.

As on the previous Australian series, the tour was managed by Peter Lush, while Micky Stewart was team manager.

Test series summary

Main article: 1990-91 Ashes series

1st Test

23–25 November 1990
Scorecard

England
194 (78 overs)
&
114 (53.1 overs)

Australia
152 (63 overs)
&
0/157 (46 overs)

Australia won by 10 wickets
The Gabba, Brisbane

2nd Test

26–30 December 1990
Scorecard

England
352 (131.4 overs)
&
150 (73 overs)

Australia
306 (112.5 overs)
&
2/197 (86 overs)

Australia won by 8 wickets
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne

3rd Test

4–8 January 1991
Scorecard

Australia
518 (157 overs)
&
205 (89 overs)

England
8/469d (172.1 overs)
&
4/113 (25 overs)

Match drawn
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

4th Test

25–29 January 1991
Scorecard

Australia
386 (135.2 overs)
&
6/314d (104 overs)

England
229 (81.3 overs)
&
5/335 (96 overs)

Match drawn
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide

5th Test

1–5 February 1991
Scorecard

England
244 (66.4 overs)
&
182 (61.3 overs)

Australia
307 (90.5 overs)
&
1/120 (31.2 overs)

Australia won by 9 wickets
WACA Ground, Perth

Tour matches

2–5 November 1990
Scorecard

Western Australia	v	England XI
289 (85.1 overs) Graeme Wood 108 (218) Michael Atherton 3/27 (4.1 overs)		246 (78.4 overs) Allan Lamb 84 (111) Chris Matthews 5/66 (16 overs)
4/329d (104 overs) Geoff Marsh 151 (250) Devon Malcolm 1/54 (22 overs)		9/222 (83 overs) Robin Smith 98* (231) Terry Alderman 3/49 (17 overs)

Match drawn
WACA Ground, Perth
Umpires: Peter McConnell and Ric Evans

England XI won the toss and elected to field.

October

25 - WACA President's XI - Lilac Hill, Perth, Western Australia - England won by 6 wickets
30 - Western Australia Combined XI - Perth, Australia - WAC XI won by 3 wickets

November

2-5 - Western Australia - Perth, Western Australia - match drawn
9-12 - South Australia - Adelaide, South Australia - South Australia won by 6 wickets
14 - Tasmania - Hobart, Tasmania - England won by 8 wickets
16-19 - An Australian XI - Hobart, Australia - match drawn

December

4 - Prime Minister's XI - Canberra, Australian Capital Territory - PM's XI won by 31 runs
20-23 - Victoria - Ballarat, Victoria - match drawn

January

13-16 - New South Wales - Albury, New South Wales - NSW won by 6 wickets
19-22 - Queensland - Carrarra, Queensland - England won by 10 wickets

World Series Cup

England also played in the World Series Cup triangular tournament with Australia and New Zealand. England finished third in the table not qualifying for the finals.

December

1 v New Zealand, Adelaide Oval - New Zealand by 7 runs
7 v New Zealand, WACA, Perth - England by 4 wickets
9 v Australia, WACA, Perth - Australia by 6 wickets
13 v New Zealand, Sydney Cricket Ground - England by 33 runs
15 v New Zealand, Gabba, Brisbane - New Zealand by 8 wickets
16 v Australia, Gabba, Brisbane - Australia by 37 runs

January

1 v Australia, Sydney Cricket Ground - Australia by 68 runs
10 v Australia, Melbourne Cricket Ground - Australia by 3 runs
England failed to qualify for the finals.

External sources

CricketArchive – tour itinerary

Annual reviews

Playfair Cricket Annual 1991
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1991

References

^ Selvey, Mike (18 October 1990). "Gooch can defy history and regain the Ashes". The Guardian. p. 15.
^ "SERIES REPORT: England in Australia and New Zealand, 1990-91". Wisden Almanack 1992 edition. ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 January 2022.

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International cricket tours of Australia

Test and LOI tours
Afghanistan	2021–22 (cancelled)
Bangladesh	2003 2008
England	1876–77 1878–79 1881–82 1882–83 1884–85 1886–87 1887–88 1891–92 1894–95 1897–98 1901–02 1903–04 1907–08 1911–12 1920–21 1924–25 1928–29 1932–33§ 1936–37 1946–47§ 1950–51§ 1954–55§ 1958–59§ 1962–63§ 1965–66§ 1970–71§ 1974–75§ 1977 1978–79 1979–80 1982–83 1986–87 1987–88§ 1990–91 1994–95 1998–99 2002–03 2006–07 2010–11 2013–14 2017–18 2021–22 2022–23
India	1947–48 1967–68§ 1977–78 1980–81§ 1985–86 1991–92 1999–2000 2003–04 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2015–16 2018–19 2020–21 2024–25
New Zealand	1973–74 1980–81 1982–83 1985–86 1987–88 1989–90 1993–94 1997–98 2001–02 2004–05 2008–09 2011–12 2015–16 2016–17 2019–20 2022–23
Pakistan	1964–65§ 1972–73§ 1976–77 1978–79§ 1981–82 1983–84 1989–90 1992–93 1995–96 1996–97 1999–2000 2002 2004–05 2009–10 2016–17 2019–20 2023–24 2024–25
South Africa	1910–11 1931–32§ 1952–53§ 1963–64§ 1971–72 (cancelled) 1993–94 1997–98 2000 2001–02 2005–06 2008–09 2012–13 2014–15 2016–17 2018–19 2022–23
Sri Lanka	1987–88 1989–90 1995–96 2004 2007–08 2010–11 2012–13 2016–17 2018–19 2019–20 2021–22
West Indies	1930–31 1951–52§ 1960–61 1968–69§ 1975–76 1979–80§ 1981–82 1984–85 1988–89 1992–93 1995–96 1996–97 2000–01 2005–06 2009–10 2012–13 2015–16 2020–21 2022–23 2023–24
Zimbabwe	1994–95 2003–04 2022

Tournaments hosted
World Cup	1992 2015
T20 World Cup	2022
Tri-series	1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2017–18
Other multi-team tournaments	1985 1987

Other tours
Afghanistan	2014–15
Australian Forces	1919–20 1945–46
English	1861–62 1863–64 1873–74 1902–03 1922–23 1929–30 1935–36 1979–80
England Lions	2012–13 2021
Fijian	1907–08
Ireland	2014–15
Multi-national	1971–72 2005–06
Nepal	2023–24
New Zealand	1898–99 1913–14 1925–26 1927–28 1937–38 1953–54 1961–62 1967–68 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1974–75
PNG	2014–15
Scotland	2014–15
Sri Lanka	1982–83
UAE	2014–15
World Series Cricket (West Indies & World XI)	1977-78 1978-79
Pakistan A	2024

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