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The England cricket team toured Australia in 1928–29. England, known as the MCC in matches outside the Tests, retained The Ashes, winning the first four Tests and losing the last for a 4–1 series victory. Writing in the 1930 ''Wisden'', SJ Southerton wrote:〔http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/155207.html?from=login〕
The series was defined by the prodigious runscoring of Walter Hammond, playing his maiden Ashes series, who with a run of scores of 251 at Sydney, 200 and 32 at Melbourne, and 119 not out and 177 at Adelaide, scored a then-record series aggregate of 905 runs at an average of 113.12; the record has only been surpassed once, by Donald Bradman in the 1930 Ashes.〔(Test records: most runs in a series )〕 ==The MCC team== The MCC touring party was:〔 *Percy Chapman (Kent) (captain) *Jack White (Somerset) (vice-captain) *Douglas Jardine (Surrey) *Jack Hobbs (Surrey) *Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) *Wally Hammond (Gloucestershire) *Patsy Hendren (Middlesex) *Ernest Tyldesley (Lancashire) *Phil Mead (Hampshire) *Maurice Leyland (Yorkshire) *Maurice Tate (Sussex) *George Geary (Leicestershire) *George Duckworth (Lancashire) (wicketkeeper) *Les Ames (Kent) (wicketkeeper) *Harold Larwood (Nottinghamshire) *"Tich" Freeman (Kent) *Sam Staples (Nottinghamshire) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「English cricket team in Australia in 1928–29」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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