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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
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- 21 and 25 December were taken as rest days.
- WH Ponsford, AJ Richardson and VY Richardson (AUS), and AP Freeman (ENG) made their Test debuts.
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
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- 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
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- 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
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- England won the toss and elected to bat.
- 15 February was taken as a rest day.
Fifth Test
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- 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.
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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
- ^ "Ceylon v MCC 1924". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
Further reading
- Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877–1978, Wisden, 1979
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
- Ray Robinson, On Top Down Under, Cassell, 1975
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1926