1958-59 Ashes series
| 1958–59 Ashes Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ashes returned to Australia after 8 years.
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| Date | 5 December 1958 – 18 February 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Australia won the 5-Test series 4–0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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 England
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| Captains | |||
| R. Benaud | P. B. H. May | ||
| Most runs | |||
| C. C. McDonald–519 (64.87) |
P. B. H. May–405 (40.50) M. C. Cowdrey–391 (43.44) |
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| Most wickets | |||
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R. Benaud–31 (18.83) A. K. Davidson–24 (19.00) I. Meckiff–17 (17.17) |
J. C. Laker–15 (21.20) | ||
The 1958–59 Ashes series consisted of five cricket Test matches, each scheduled for six days with eight ball overs. It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1958–59, and the matches outside the Tests were played in the name of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The England team led by Peter May was labelled the strongest ever to leave England. It had the formidable bowling attack of Fred Trueman, Frank Tyson, Brian Statham, Peter Loader, Jim Laker and Tony Lock; the all-rounder Trevor Bailey; the outstanding wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans; and the batting of Colin Cowdrey, Tom Graveney, Raman Subba Row and Ted Dexter. They had won the last three Ashes series in 1953, 1954–55 and 1956, but lost the series 4–0 to Australia. It was one of the biggest upsets in Test cricket history and the biggest margin of defeat in an Ashes series since the 5–0 "whitewashing" inflicted by Warwick Armstrong's Australians in 1920–21.
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