The English cricket team's tour to Australia in 1903âÂÂ04 was the first time the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) took over responsibility for sponsoring and arranging an overseas tour representing England. England had not won the Ashes since the 1896 series in England. The MCC appointed Plum Warner to put together and captain a team, which was very much seen as the underdogs against Australia. Warner and his team, however, pulled off the upset the English were looking for and won the five-Test series 3âÂÂ2. In the first Test at Sydney, R.E. "Tip" Foster scored 287 to set the world record for the highest individual Test innings; the innings remains the highest by a Test debutant.
Test series
First Test
Second Test
Third Test
Fourth Test
Fifth Test
Tour matches
South Australia v M.C.C.
Victoria v M.C.C.
New South Wales v M.C.C.
Queensland v M.C.C.
Northern District XVIII v M.C.C.
Newcastle XV v M.C.C.
Melbourne Colts XVIII v M.C.C.
Bendigo and District XVIII v M.C.C.
Ballarat XVIII v M.C.C.
Tasmania v M.C.C.
Tasmania v M.C.C.
Victoria v M.C.C.
New South Wales v M.C.C.
Western District XV v M.C.C.
South Australia v M.C.C.
References
Further reading
- H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962
- Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877âÂÂ1978, Wisden, 1979
- David Frith, The Golden Age of Cricket 1890âÂÂ1914, Lutterworth, 1978
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
- Plum Warner, How We Recovered The Ashes, Longman, 1905
- Roy Webber, The Playfair Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1951
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1905
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