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Donald Bradman failed to score any runs in his final innings, being bowled for a duck. Had he scored just four, Bradman would have retired with a Test average of exactly 100. The Fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes series, held at The Oval in London, was the final Test in that cricket series between Australia and England. The match took place on 14 ...
On three occasions has a team won all the Tests in an Ashes series; only Australia has achieved the feat 5–0 in 1920–21, 2006–07 and 2013–14. [6] England's largest winning margin in an Ashes series was in 1978–79, when it won 5–1. England's largest unbeaten winning margin of 3–0 in an Ashes series was achieved in 1886, 1977 and 2013.
Since the Second World War, Australia had played 11 Tests and had been unbeaten.In early 1946, they defeated New Zealand in a one-off Test by an innings. The following season, in 1946–47, they won the five-Test series against England 3–0, and followed this with a 4–0 series win over India in the following season. [1]
Khawaja and Warner frustrated England before rain stopped play, reaching 135-0 chasing 384 to win the fifth Ashes Test at the Oval. Khawaja and Warner frustrated England before rain stopped play ...
England was 389-9 in its second innings at the end of the third day in the fifth and final test with Anderson (8) and Broad (2) at the crease following key contributions from openers Zac Crawley (73)
It was also the first time since the fifth Test of the 1985 Ashes that England have reached 500 in a home series. [44] [46] Australia lost the first wicket of their second innings in the 11th over, Wood finding the edge of Khawaja's bat; after an unsuccessful review of the on-field 'out' decision, Khawaja departed for 18.
England started their second innings 12 runs behind Australia on day three at the Oval
The series being undecided, six days were allowed and the match began, unusually for a Test in England, on a Saturday. Hassett won the toss for the fifth time. He made 53 and Harvey and Hole made 30s, but Lindwall top-scored with 62 and last five wickets more than doubled the score. Fred Trueman, in his only match of the series, took four ...