Australian cricket team in England in 1997
| 1997 Ashes series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 5 June 1997 – 25 August 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Australia won the 6-Test series 3-2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Player of the series | Glenn McGrath (Aus) and Graham Thorpe (Eng) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 England
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 Australia
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| Captains | |||
| Michael Atherton | Mark Taylor | ||
| Most runs | |||
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Graham Thorpe (453) Nasser Hussain (431) Alec Stewart (268) |
Matthew Elliott (556) Steve Waugh (390) Greg Blewett (381) |
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| Most wickets | |||
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Andrew Caddick (24) Dean Headley (16) Darren Gough (16) |
Glenn McGrath (36) Shane Warne (24) Jason Gillespie (16) |
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The Australian cricket team toured England in the 1997 season to play a six-match Ashes Test series against England. Australia, under Mark Taylor, won the series 3–2 with strong batting performances from Matthew Elliott supporting the decisive bowling of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie.
England had enjoyed good form leading up to the series, with a 3–0 One Day International victory, and success in New Zealand; however, after winning convincingly in the first Test the host team struggled. Graham Thorpe and Nasser Hussain both to scored over 400 runs for England, with Andrew Caddick the leading wicket-taker.
The previous series over the winter of 1994-95, hosted in Australia, saw the host nation win 3-1. Australia, however, entered the 1997 series with a number of injuries and poor form. Mark Taylor had also suffered what Wisden referred to as "personal purgatory", involving a pay dispute with the Australian Cricket Board. His captaincy was itself in question until April 1997.Matthew Elliott's selection and the reshuffle of Michael Bevan's position in the batting order also attracted media speculation.
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