Australian cricket team in England in 1896


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The Australian cricket team played 34 first-class matches in England in 1896, including 3 Tests.

The 1896 Australian national cricket team

England won the Test series 2–1.

  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
  • KS Ranjitsinhji (ENG) made his Test debut.
  • England won the toss and elected to bat.
  • EG Wynyard (ENG) made his Test debut.

As on previous voyages to England, the Australians had a stopover in Colombo and played a match on 1 April at Galle Face Green against a Ceylon team, which was drawn.[1]

  1. ^ "Ceylon v Australians 1896". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  • 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