The Australian cricket team toured England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 in the 1989 season

1989 English cricket season

The 1989 English cricket season saw the re-emergence of Australia as a world-class team after it had struggled for most of the previous 12 years. Under the leadership of Allan Border, a very fine team had been forged that included Steve Waugh, Mark Taylor, Ian Healy, David Boon and Merv Hughes...

 to play a six-match Test

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 series against England. The tour also included matches in Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

, Scotland

Scotland

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, the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 and Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

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Australia won the series 4-0 with two matches drawn. Australia therefore regained The Ashes

The Ashes

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. It is one of the most celebrated rivalries in international cricket and dates back to 1882. It is currently played biennially, alternately in the United Kingdom and Australia. Cricket being a summer sport, and the venues...

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Touring party

• Allan Border
  Allan Border
  Allan Robert Border AO is a former Australian cricketer. A batsman, Border was for many years the captain of the Australian team. His playing nickname was "A.B.". He played 156 Test matches in his career, a record until it was passed by fellow Australian Steve Waugh...
  
   (captain)
• Geoff Marsh
  Geoff Marsh
  Geoffrey Robert Marsh is a former Australian cricketer, coach and selector. He played 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day Internationals for Australia as an opening batsman...
  
   (vice captain)
• Terry Alderman
  Terry Alderman
  Terence Michael Alderman is a former Australian cricketer.He began his first-class career in 1974 with Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield and came to international prominence when he was chosen for the Australian national team to tour England in 1981...
  
  
• David Boon
  David Boon
  David Clarence Boon MBE , nicknamed Boony, is a former Australian cricketer whose international playing career spanned the years 1984–1995...
  
  
• Greg Campbell
  Greg Campbell
  Gregory Dale Campbell is a former Australian cricketer who played in 4 Tests and 12 ODIs from 1989 to 1990. Campbell was a right arm fast bowler, and batted as a right-handed tail ender. He is the uncle of former Australian captain Ricky Ponting...
  
  
• Ian Healy
  Ian Healy
  Ian Andrew Healy is a former cricketer who played for Queensland and Australia. A specialist wicketkeeper and useful right-hand middle-order batsman, he made an unheralded entry to international cricket in 1988, after only six first-class games. His work ethic and combativeness was much needed...
  
  
• Trevor Hohns
  Trevor Hohns
  Trevor Victor Hohns is a former Queensland and.Australian cricketer who played in 7 Tests in 1989.Hohns resigned as chairman of selectors for Cricket Australia in early 2006, being replaced with fellow selector and former Test cricketer Andrew Hilditch.-External links:...
  
  
• Merv Hughes
  Merv Hughes
  Mervyn Gregory Hughes is a former Australian cricketer. A right-arm fast bowler, he represented Australia between 1985 and 1994 in 53 Test matches, taking 212 wickets. He played 33 One Day Internationals, taking 38 wickets. He took a hat trick in a Test against the West Indies at the WACA in...
  
  
• Dean Jones
  Dean Jones (cricketer)
  Dean Mervyn Jones AM is a retired Australian cricketer, and is presently a coach. He also worked as a media commentator.-Career:...
  
  
• Tony Latimer
• Geoff Lawson
  Geoff Lawson (cricketer)
  Geoffrey Francis Lawson, OAM is a former Australian cricketer and the former coach of the Pakistan cricket team....
  
  
• Tim May
  Tim May
  Timothy Brian Alexander May is a former cricketer for South Australia and Australia, who is currently a leading players' representative in his role as Chief Executive of the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations...
  
  
• Tom Moody
  Tom Moody
  Thomas Masson Moody is a former Australian cricketer and coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team. Today he is the coach for the IPL team Kings XI Punjab...
  
  
• Carl Rackemann
  Carl Rackemann
  Carl Gray Rackemann OAM , born in Wondai, Queensland, is a former Queensland and Australian cricketer. He was a fast bowler in 12 Tests, 52 ODIs and 167 first-class cricket matches in a career spanning 1979–80 to 1995–96....
  
  
• Mark Taylor
  Mark Taylor (cricketer)
  Mark Anthony Taylor, AO is a former Australian cricket player and Test opening batsman from 1988–1999, as well as captain from 1994–1999, succeeding Allan Border...
  
  
• Michael Veletta
• Steve Waugh
  Steve Waugh
  Stephen Rodger "Steve" Waugh, AO is a former Australian cricketer and fraternal twin of cricketer Mark Waugh. A right-handed batsman, he was also a successful medium-pace bowler...
  
  
• Tim Zoehrer
  Tim Zoehrer
  Timothy Joseph Zoehrer is a former Australian cricket player. He played as a wicket-keeper....
  
  

Test series summary

• 1st Test at Headingley
  Headingley Stadium
  Headingley Stadium is a sporting complex in the Leeds suburb of Headingley in West Yorkshire, England. It is the home of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, rugby league team Leeds Rhinos and rugby union team Leeds Carnegie ....
  
   – Australia won by 210 runs
• 2nd Test at Lord's Cricket Ground
  Lord's Cricket Ground
  Lord's Cricket Ground is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board , the European Cricket Council and, until August 2005, the...
  
   – Australia won by 6 wickets
• 3rd Test at Edgbaston
  Edgbaston Cricket Ground
  Edgbaston Cricket Ground, also known as the County Ground or Edgbaston Stadium, is a cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England...
  
   – match drawn
• 4th Test at Old Trafford – Australia won by 9 wickets
• 5th Test at Trent Bridge
  Trent Bridge
  Trent Bridge is a Test, One-day international and County cricket ground located in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England and is also the headquarters of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. As well as International cricket and Nottinghamshire's home games, the ground has hosted the Finals Day of...
  
   – Australia won by an innings and 180 runs
• 6th Test at The Oval
  The Oval
  The Kia Oval, still commonly referred to by its original name of The Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth. In the past it was also sometimes called the Kennington Oval...
  
  – match drawn

ODI series summary

• 1st ODI: England v Australia at Manchester, 25 May 1989
• 2nd ODI: England v Australia at Nottingham, 27 May 1989
• 3rd ODI: England v Australia at Lord's, 29 May 1989

The coach driver for the touring Australian cricket team in 1989 was Austin Grundy. The Australian scorer was Mike Walsh.

Other matches

• Australians v League Cricket Conference XI at Dartmouth, 5 May 1989
• Australians v Duchess of Norfolk's XI at Arundel, 7 May 1989
• Sussex v Australians at Hove, 9 May 1989
• Marylebone Cricket Club v Australians at Lord's, 11 May 1989
• Worcestershire v Australians at Worcester, 13–14 May 1989
• Somerset v Australians at Taunton, 17–19 May 1989
• Middlesex v Australians at Lord's, 20–22 May 1989
• Yorkshire v Australians at Leeds, 23 May 1989
• Warwickshire v Australians at Birmingham, 31 May-2 Jun 1989
• Derbyshire v Australians at Derby, 3-5 Jun 1989
• Lancashire v Australians at Manchester, 14-16 Jun 1989
• Northamptonshire v Australians at Northampton, 17-19 Jun 1989
• Australians v Oxford and Cambridge Universities at The Parks, 28 Jun 1989
• Glamorgan v Australians at Neath, 1-3 Jul 1989
• Australians v Scotland at Glasgow, 15 Jul 1989
• Australians v Minor Counties at Trowbridge, 17 Jul 1989
• Hampshire v Australians at Southampton, 19-21 Jul 1989
• Gloucestershire v Australians at Bristol, 22-23 Jul 1989
• Nottinghamshire v Australians at Nottingham, 2-4 Aug 1989
• Leicestershire v Australians at Leicester, 5-7 Aug 1989
• Kent v Australians at Canterbury, 16-18 Aug 1989
• Essex v Australians at Chelmsford, 19-21 Aug 1989
• Australians v The Netherlands at The Hague, 2 Sep 1989
• Australians v The Netherlands at The Hague, 3 Sep 1989
• Australians v Denmark at Bronsby Stadium, 5 Sep 1989
• Australians v Denmark at Slagelse Stadium, 6 Sep 1989

External links

• CricketArchive – tour itineraries