Australian cricket team in England in 1938

The 1938 Ashes series between Australia and England was drawn. England and Australia won a Test each, with two of the other Tests drawn and the third game of the series, scheduled for Manchester, abandoned without a ball being bowled, only the second instance of this in more than 60 years of Test cricket. The Australians retained The Ashes.

In all 30 first-class matches were played, and the Australian team won 15 of them losing only to England and H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI. There were also six minor games, the Australians winning five of them.

The touring team

DG Bradman (captain - NSW) SJ McCabe (vice-captain - NSW) CL Badcock (SA) SG Barnes (NSW) BA Barnett (VIC) WA Brown (QLD) AG Chipperfield (NSW) JHW Fingleton (NSW) LO Fleetwood-Smith (VIC) AL Hassett (VIC) EL McCormick (VIC) WJ O'Reilly (NSW) MG Waite (SA) CW Walker (SA) FA Ward (SA) ESC White (NSW) Manager: Mr WH Jeanes

The team travelled to England on the P&O liner RMS Strathmore.

The Test series

• 1st Test (Nottingham) — drawn - [1]
• 2nd Test (Lord's) — drawn - [2]
• 3rd Test (Manchester) — match abandoned without a ball bowled - [3]
• 4th Test (Leeds) — Australia won by 5 wickets - [4]
• 5th Test (The Oval) — England won by an innings and 579 runs - [5]

Ceylon

The Australians had a stopover in Colombo en route to England and played a one-day single-innings match there against the Ceylon national team, which at that time did not have Test status.

External links

• CricketArchive – tour summaries

Annual reviews

• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1939

Further reading

• Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
• Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993