1990–91 Ashes series
| 1990-91 Ashes Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Part of the English cricket team in Australia in 1990-91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 23 November 1990 - 5 February 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Australia won the 5-Test series 3-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Player of the series | Bruce Reid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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 England
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| Captains | |||
| Allan Border |
Allan Lamb (stand-in) Graham Gooch |
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| Most runs | |||
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David Boon (530) Greg Matthews (353) Geoff Marsh (314) |
Graham Gooch (426) David Gower (407) Mike Atherton (279) |
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| Most wickets | |||
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Bruce Reid (27) Craig McDermott (18) Terry Alderman (16) |
Devon Malcolm (16) Angus Fraser (11) Phil DeFreitas (10) |
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The England cricket team toured Australia in the 1990–91 season to play a five-match Test series against Australia for The Ashes. The Australians were the holders, having reclaimed the Ashes in England during the 1989 Ashes series, however the 1986-87 Ashes series, which was the previous series in Australia had been won by England. The English tourists were confident their home series loss in 1989 had been a blemish and that they were more than capable of reclaiming the Ashes 'down under'. The tourists were seemingly well prepared. During their home summer they had 1-0 victories in 3-test series against both India and New Zealand, and had played well in their warm-up matches.
However the Australians, led by the authoritative Allan Border were in a ruthless mood. They had home series victories against Sri Lanka and Pakistan, but had lost a one-off test to New Zealand since the 1989 Ashes series victory, and Border and his men were determined to defend the trophy. The Australians came out aggressively from the start, and combined with moments of bad-luck for the tourists, proved too much pressure for the England side to handle. The five test series was won 3-0 by Australia.
Australia lead the five test series 2-0.
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