The England cricket team toured Australia in 1998–99, playing a five-Test series for The Ashes and a number of tour matches against Australian domestic teams. They also played a tri-nation series which included Sri Lanka.
1998–99 Ashes Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 20 November 1998 – 6 January 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | Australia won the five-Test series 3–1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Player of the series | Steve Waugh (Aus) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Australia won the Test series 3–1 and retained the Ashes, which were in their possession since 1989. The player of the series was Steve Waugh from Australia. Of the five matches, one was drawn, Australia won three and England won one. Australian captain Mark Taylor won all five coin tosses at the start of each Test.
Test series
edit1st Test
edit20–24 November 1998
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- Play on Day 1 reduced to 89 overs due to bad light.
- Play on Day 3 reduced to 75 overs due to bad light and thunderstorms.
- Play on Day 5 reduced to 29 overs due to thunderstorms.
2nd Test
edit28–30 November 1998
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- Australia won the toss and elected to field.
- AJ Tudor (Eng) made his Test debut.
3rd Test
edit4th Test
edit26–29 December 1998
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- Australia won the toss and elected to field.
- No play was possible on Day 1 due to rain.
- MJ Nicholson (Aus) and WK Hegg (Eng) made their Test debuts.
5th Test
edit2–5 January 1999
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- Darren Gough took a hat-trick. It was the first Ashes hat-trick by an Englishman in almost 100 years and the first hat-trick taken in Sydney in almost 107 years.
References
edit- Playfair Cricket Annual
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack