First Test, 1948 Ashes series
The First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The tourists won the second Test by six wickets after a day of play was abandoned due to heavy rain. The third and final Test was held at Lord’s, with Australia winning by one wicket after rain stopped play for the day. The series ended in a draw, with both teams winning the series 3-2.
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The First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0. In the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by large margins. One of the drawn matches, against Lancashire, was rain-affected, with the first day washed out entirely. Australia fielded a full-strength team and won by an innings against the Marylebone Cricket Club, which fielded a team almost entirely of Test-capped and current England players. The difference in Australia’s choice of spinner for the First Test was the omission of leg spinner Colin McCool, who had been struggling from a torn spinning finger, which prevented him from bowling long spells. Bill Johnston played in McCool’s place, but changed his mind when rain was forecast on the first morning when it was forecast that the wicket would be wet. The match was won by Australia by an hour and a half after play had been suspended due to bad light. The tourists won the second Test by six wickets after a day of play was abandoned due to heavy rain. The third and final Test was held at Lord’s, with Australia winning by one wicket after rain stopped play for the day. The fourth and final test was at Old Trafford, with England winning by two wickets on the final day.
It was the first Test of a five-match series between Australia and England, and the first of five Ashes Tests. The series ended in a draw, with both teams winning the series 3-2. The first Test was a one-day affair, with rain interrupting play on the second and third days. The second Test was played in front of a crowd of 16,000 spectators, and was the last Test to be played in England before the start of the Second World War. The Australian captain Donald Bradman scored his 28th Test century, while England’s captain Norman Yardley was out for 138. The hosts were bowled out for 509 in the first innings, giving them a 344-run first innings lead. On the second day, England attempted to slow the Australian batsmen by employing leg theory, a defensive strategy that sought more to contain the opposition than to attack. Australia reached 2934 at the end of the day’s play, with Bradman making 138. England reached 1212 by stumps on the third day, which ended with a hostile crowd reaction to Keith Miller, who bowled a large amount of bouncers at Len Hutton and Denis Compton. The next day, Australia prised out the remaining wickets and England were dismissed for 441, with Compton out for 184 after falling on his stumps. Australia then made the 98 runs required for victory with the loss of twowickets.
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