English cricket team in Australia in 1928–29

International cricket tour

Cricket series

Date

18 October 1928 — 23 March 1929

Location

Australia

Result

England won the 5-Test series 4-1

Teams
Australia	England
Captains
J Ryder	APF Chapman
Most runs
WM Woodfull (511) J Ryder (492) DG Bradman (468)	WR Hammond (905) EH Hendren (472) JB Hobbs (451)
Most wickets
CV Grimmett (23) DD Blackie (14)	JC White (25) G Geary (19) H Larwood (18) MW Tate (17)

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The England cricket team toured Australia in 1928–29. England, known as the MCC in matches outside the Tests, retained The Ashes, winning the first four Tests and losing the last for a 4–1 series victory.

Writing in the 1930 Wisden, SJ Southerton wrote:

England were stronger in batting, more reliable and consistent in bowling and very definitely superior in fielding.

The series was defined by the prodigious runscoring of Wally Hammond, playing his maiden Ashes series, who with a run of scores of 251 at Sydney, 200 and 32 at Melbourne, and 119 not out and 177 at Adelaide, scored a then-record series aggregate of 905 runs at an average of 113.12; the record has only been surpassed once, by Donald Bradman in the 1930 Ashes. In the fifth Test, England's Jack Hobbs became the oldest player to score a Test century, at the age of 46 years and 82 days, a record that still stands.

The MCC team

Percy Chapman leads out his powerful 1928–29 England team out onto the field

Scoreboard from the First Test.

Larwood bowling to Beckett at 6–342 in Australia's first innings in the Third Test at Melbourne.

The MCC touring party was:

Percy Chapman (Kent) (captain)
Jack White (Somerset) (vice-captain)
Douglas Jardine (Surrey)
Jack Hobbs (Surrey)
Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire)
Wally Hammond (Gloucestershire)
Patsy Hendren (Middlesex)
Ernest Tyldesley (Lancashire)
Phil Mead (Hampshire)
Maurice Leyland (Yorkshire)
Maurice Tate (Sussex)
George Geary (Leicestershire)
George Duckworth (Lancashire) (wicketkeeper)
Les Ames (Kent) (wicketkeeper)
Harold Larwood (Nottinghamshire)
"Tich" Freeman (Kent)
Sam Staples (Nottinghamshire)

Tests

First Test

30 November – 5 December 1928
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard

England	v	Australia
521 (175.3 overs) EH Hendren 169 (314) H Larwood 70 (132) JM Gregory 3/142 (42 overs) CV Grimmett 3/167 (40 overs)		122 (50.4 overs) J Ryder 33 H Larwood 6/32 (14.4 overs)
8/342 (dec) (135.1 overs) CP Mead 73 (263) DR Jardine 65* (194) CV Grimmett 6/131 (44.1 overs)		66 (25.3 overs) WM Woodfull 30 (73) JC White 4/7 (6.3 overs)

England won by 675 runs
Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane, Australia
Umpires: DA Elder (Aus) and GA Hele (Aus)

2 December was taken as a rest day.

Second Test

14–20 December 1928
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
253 (108.2 overs) WM Woodfull 68 (216) G Geary 5/35 (18 overs)		636 (272.1 overs) WR Hammond 251 (605) DD Blackie 4/148 (59 overs)
397 (151.4 overs) HSTL Hendry 112 (305) WM Woodfull 111 (286) MW Tate 4/99 (46 overs)		2/16 (7 overs) G Geary 8 (21) HSTL Hendry 2/4 (3 overs)

England won by eight wickets
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
Umpires: DA Elder (Aus) and GA Hele (Aus)

16 December was taken as a rest day.

Third Test

29 December 1928 – 5 January 1929
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
397 (180.5 overs) J Ryder 112 (219) AL Kippax 100 (255) G Geary 3/83 (31.5 overs) H Larwood 3/127 (37 overs)		417 (195 overs) WR Hammond 200 (472) DD Blackie 6/94 (44 overs)
351 (165.5 overs) DG Bradman 112 (281) WM Woodfull 107 (309) JC White 5/107 (56.5 overs)		7/332 (159.5 overs) H Sutcliffe 135 (462) CV Grimmett 2/96 (42 overs)

England won by three wickets
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
Umpires: DA Elder (Aus) and GA Hele (Aus)

30 December was taken as a rest day.
This Test match still holds the record for the highest match aggregate (1497) without a no-ball extra.

Fourth Test

1–8 February 1929
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard

England	v	Australia
334 (183.1 overs) WR Hammond 119* (374) CV Grimmett 5/102 (52.1 overs)		369 (160 overs) A Jackson 164 (331) JC White 5/130 (60 overs) MW Tate 4/77 (42 overs)
383 (200.4 overs) WR Hammond 177 (603) DR Jardine 98 (378) RK Oxenham 4/67 (47.4 overs)		336 (151.5 overs) J Ryder 87 (155) JC White 8/126 (64.5 overs)

England won by 12 runs
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia
Umpires: DA Elder (Aus) and GA Hele (Aus)

3 February was taken as a rest day.

Fifth Test

8–16 March 1929
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard

England	v	Australia
519 (215.1 overs) JB Hobbs 142 (301) M Leyland 137 (330) TW Wall 3/123 (49 overs) PM Hornibrook 3/142 (48 overs)		491 (271.3 overs) DG Bradman 123 (247) WM Woodfull 102 (381) G Geary 5/105 (81 overs)
257 (86.3 overs) JB Hobbs 65 (126) MW Tate 54 (57) M Leyland 53 (138) TW Wall 5/66 (26 overs)		5/287 (134.1 overs) J Ryder 57 (172) WAS Oldfield 48 (156) A Jackson 46 (75) WR Hammond 3/53 (26 overs)

Australia won by five wickets
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
Umpires: GA Hele (Aus) and AC Jones (Aus)

10 March was taken as a rest day.

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.

References

^ "Wisden: The Independent Voice of Cricket | Live Cricket Scores, News, Fixtures".
Test records: most runs in a series
"How many batters have made their first two centuries in the same Test?". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
Walmsley, Keith (2003). Mosts Without in Test Cricket. Reading, England: Keith Walmsley. p. 375. ISBN 0947540067.
"Ceylon v MCC 1928". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 July 2014.

Ralph Barker & Irving Rosenwater, England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877–1968, Batsford, 1969, ISBN 0-7134-0317-9.
Percy Fender, The Turn of the Wheel: MCC Team in Australia 1928–29, London, 1929
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 1930

The Ashes

List of Ashes series

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1900

	1902		1905		1909		1912		World War I			1921		1926		1930		1934		1938		World War II			1948
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1950

	1953		1956		1961		1964		1968		1972		1975		1977		1981		1985		1989		1993		1997
1950–51		1954–55		1958–59		1962–63		1965–66		1970–71		1974–75				1978–79		1982–83		1986–87		1990–91		1994–95		1998–99

2000

	2001		2005		2009		2013		2015		2019		2023
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Non-Ashes Australia v England Test series
1876–77 1878–79 1880 1881–82 1882 1945 1976–77 1979–80 1980 1987–88 2027

Matches in white background were played in England, yellow – in Australia.

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

§: Toured New Zealand as well as Australia

International cricket tours of Sri Lanka

Test and LOI tours
Afghanistan	2022-23 2023–24
Australia	1982–83 1992 1999 2003–04 2011 2016 2022 2024–25
Bangladesh	2002 2005 2007 2012–13 2016–17 2019 2020–21
England	1981–82 1992–93 2000–01 2003–04 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2018–19 2020–21
India	1985 1993 1997 2001 2006 2008 2008–09 2010 2012 2015 2017 2021 2024
Ireland	2022–23
New Zealand	1983–84 1984–85 1986–87 1992–93 1998 2003 2009 2012–13 2013–14 2019 2024–25
Pakistan	1985–86 1994 1996–97 2000 2005–06 2009 2012 2014 2015 2022 2023
South Africa	1993 2000 2004 2006 2013 2014 2018 2021–22
West Indies	1993–94 2001–02 2005 2010–11 2015-16 2019–20 2021–22 2024–25
Zimbabwe	1983–84 1996–97 1997–98 2001–02 2017 2020–21 2021–22 2023–24

Tournaments hosted
Multiple teams	1986 1986 1994 1996 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2001–02 2001–02 2002 2004 2009 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012 2018

Other tours
Afghan	2009–10 2024
Australian	1884 1890 1893 1896 1912 1926 1930 1934 1935–36 1938 1945 1948 1953 1961 1964 1969 1981
Bangladeshi	1985–86
Canadian	2000–01 2009–10 2011–12
English	1882–83 1889–90 1891–92 1892–93 1894–95 1911–12 1920–21 1922–23 1924–25 1926–27 1928–29 1929–30 1932–33 1933–34 1935–36 1936–37 1936–37 1950–51 1951–52 1954–55 1958–59 1961–62 1962–63 1965–66 1968–69 1969–70 1972–73 1976–77 1977–78 1984–85 2000–01
Indian	1925–26 1944–45 1956–57 1973–74 1975–76
Kenyan	2001–02 2013–14
Malaysian	1893–94 1971–72
Multi-national	1930–31 1949–50 1950–51 1967–68
New Zealand	1927 1937–38
Pakistani	1948–49 1972–73 1975–76 1978–79
Scottish	2011–12 2013–14
West Indian	1948–49 1966–67 1974–75 1978–79
Irish	2020–21
South Africa A	2023

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