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Test no. 57

The Ashes - 5th Test
Australia v England

1897/98 season

Played at Sydney Cricket Ground on 26,28 February, 1,2 March 1898 (timeless match)

Result Australia won by 6 wickets


England 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	AC MacLaren	b Trott	65	113	8	0
	E Wainwright	c Hill b Trumble	49	117		0
	KS Ranjitsinhji	c Gregory b Trott	2	6	0	0
	TW Hayward	b Jones	47	95	5	0
	W Storer	b Jones	44	108	4	0
	NF Druce	lbw b Noble	64	114	10	0
	GH Hirst	b Jones	44	80	3	0
	JR Mason	c Howell b Jones	7	10		0
	J Briggs	b Jones	0	10	0	0
	JT Hearne	not out	2	5	0	0
	T Richardson	b Jones	1	1	0	0
	Extras	(b 2, lb 5, w 2, nb 1)	10

	Total	(all out; 129.2 overs)	335	(2.59 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-111 (MacLaren), 2-117 (Wainwright), 3-119 (Ranjitsinhji), 4-197 (Hayward), 5-230 (Storer), 6-308 (Hirst), 7-318 (Mason), 8-324 (Briggs), 9-334 (Druce), 10-335 (Richardson)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
MA Noble	26	6	57	1	2.19
WP Howell	17	6	40	0	2.35
H Trumble	26	4	67	1	2.57
E Jones	26.2	3	82	6	3.11
GHS Trott	23	6	56	2	2.43
CE McLeod	11	4	23	0	2.09


Australia 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	CE McLeod	b Richardson	64	163	8	0
	J Darling	c Mason b Briggs	14	40		0
	C Hill	b Richardson	8	10		0
	J Worrall	c Ranjitsinhji b Richardson	26	65		0
	SE Gregory	c Storer b Richardson	21	22		0
	MA Noble	c Storer b Richardson	31	75		0
	GHS Trott	c Ranjitsinhji b Hearne	18	55		0
	H Trumble	b Richardson	12			0
	JJ Kelly	not out	27	60		0
	WP Howell	c MacLaren b Richardson	10			0
	E Jones	c Storer b Richardson	1		0	0
	Extras	(b 5, w 1, nb 1)	7

	Total	(all out; 100.1 overs)	239	(2.38 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-36 (Darling), 2-45 (Hill), 3-99 (Worrall), 4-132 (Gregory), 5-137 (McLeod), 6-188 (Trott), 7-188 (Noble), 8-221 (Trumble), 9-232 (Howell), 10-239 (Jones)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
T Richardson	36.1	7	94	8	2.59
J Briggs	17	4	39	1	2.29
JT Hearne	21	9	40	1	1.90
W Storer	5	1	13	0	2.60
JR Mason	13	7	20	0	1.53
TW Hayward	4	0	12	0	3.00
GH Hirst	4	1	14	0	3.50


England 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	AC MacLaren	c Darling b Jones	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	E Wainwright	b Noble	6	25			0
	KS Ranjitsinhji	lbw b Jones	12	58			0
	TW Hayward	c Worrall b Trumble	43	105			0
	W Storer	c Gregory b Trumble	31	65			0
	NF Druce	c Howell b Trumble	18	25			0
	GH Hirst	c Trott b Jones	7	30		0	1
	JR Mason	b Trumble	11	30			0
	J Briggs	b Howell	29	45			0
	JT Hearne	not out	3	25		0	0
	T Richardson	b Howell	6	5			0
	Extras	(lb 12)	12

	Total	(all out; 78.1 overs)	178	(2.27 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-0 (MacLaren), 2-16 (Wainwright), 3-30 (Ranjitsinhji), 4-99 (Storer), 5-104 (Hayward), 6-121 (Druce), 7-137 (Hirst), 8-148 (Mason), 9-172 (Briggs), 10-178 (Richardson)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
MA Noble	15	4	34	1	2.26
WP Howell	6.1	0	22	2	3.56
H Trumble	24	7	37	4	1.54
E Jones	26	3	61	3	2.34
GHS Trott	7	1	12	0	1.71


Australia 2nd innings (target: 275 runs)			R	M	4s	6s
	CE McLeod	b Hearne	4	10	0	0
	J Darling	c Wainwright b Richardson	160	171	30	0
	C Hill	b Richardson	2	10	0	0
	J Worrall	c Hirst b Hayward	62	121	9	0
	SE Gregory	not out	22	45		0
	MA Noble	not out	15	17		0
	Extras	(b 6, w 1, nb 4)	11

	Total	(4 wickets; 62.4 overs)	276	(4.40 runs per over)

Did not bat

GHS Trott, H Trumble,

JJ Kelly, WP Howell, E Jones

Fall of wickets1-23 (McLeod), 2-40 (Hill), 3-233 (Worrall), 4-252 (Darling)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
T Richardson	21.4	1	110	2	5.07
J Briggs	5	1	25	0	5.00
JT Hearne	15	5	52	1	3.46
JR Mason	11	1	27	0	2.45
TW Hayward	3	0	18	1	6.00
GH Hirst	7	0	33	0	4.71

Toss England, who chose to bat first
Series Australia won the 5-match series 4-1

Umpires C Bannerman and J Phillips

Close of play
26 Feb day 1 - England 1st innings 301/5 (NF Druce 43*, GH Hirst 43*)
27 Feb rest day
28 Feb day 2 - Australia 1st innings 184/5 (MA Noble 31*, GHS Trott 14*)
1 Mar day 3 - England 2nd innings 172/9 (JT Hearne 3*)
2 Mar day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 276/4 (62.4 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Darling's hundred took only 91 minutes.
Tom Richardson ended his Test career by returning his best analysis. His 88 wickets in only 14 matches included 11 instances of five or more in an innings.
Darling was the first batsman to score three hundreds in the same Test rubber and the first to aggregate 500 runs in one.

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