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Test no. 303

The Ashes - 5th Test England v Australia

1948 season

Played at Kennington Oval, London, on 14,16,17,18 August 1948 (5-day match) Result Australia won by an innings and 149 runs

	England 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
		L Hutton	c Tallon b Lindwall	30	124	147	1	0	20.40
		JG Dewes	b Miller	1	6	5	0	0	20.00
		WJ Edrich	c Hassett b Johnston	3	20	20	0	0	15.00
		DCS Compton	c Morris b Lindwall	4	9	11	0	0	36.36
		JF Crapp	c Tallon b Miller	0	19	23	0	0	0.00
		NWD Yardley	b Lindwall	7	31	33	0	0	21.21
		AJ Watkins	lbw b Johnston	0	16	16	0	0	0.00
		TG Evans	b Lindwall	1	9	4	0	0	25.00
		AV Bedser	b Lindwall	0	3	5	0	0	0.00
		JA Young	b Lindwall	0	4	5	0	0	0.00
		WE Hollies	not out	0	12	8	0	0	0.00
		Extras	(b 6)	6
		Total	(all out; 42.1 overs)	52	(1.23 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-2 (Dewes), 2-10 (Edrich), 3-17 (Compton), 4-23 (Crapp), 5-35 (Yardley), 6-42 (Watkins), 7-45 (Evans), 8-45 (Bedser), 9-47 (Young), 10-52 (Hutton)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	RR Lindwall	16.1	5	20	6	1.23
	KR Miller	8	5	5	2	0.62
	WA Johnston	16	4	20	2	1.25
	SJE Loxton	2	1	1	0	0.50

	Australia 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
		SG Barnes	c Evans b Hollies	61	126			0
		AR Morris	run out	196	406		16	0
		DG Bradman	b Hollies	0	1	2	0	0	0.00
		AL Hassett	lbw b Young	37	134			0
		KR Miller	st Evans b Hollies	5				0
		RN Harvey	c Young b Hollies	17				0
		SJE Loxton	c Evans b Edrich	15				0
		RR Lindwall	c Edrich b Young	9				0
		D Tallon	c Crapp b Hollies	31				0
		DT Ring	c Crapp b Bedser	9				0
		WA Johnston	not out	0	1	2	0	0	0.00
		Extras	(b 4, lb 2, nb 3)	9
		Total	(all out; 158.2 overs)	389	(2.45 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-117 (Barnes), 2-117 (Bradman), 3-226 (Hassett), 4-243 (Miller), 5-265 (Harvey), 6-304 (Loxton), 7-332 (Lindwall), 8-359 (Morris), 9-389 (Tallon), 10-389 (Ring)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	AV Bedser	31.2	9	61	1	1.94
	AJ Watkins	4	1	19	0	4.75
	JA Young	51	16	118	2	2.31
	WE Hollies	56	14	131	5	2.33
	DCS Compton	2	0	6	0	3.00
	WJ Edrich	9	1	38	1	4.22
	NWD Yardley	5	1	7	0	1.40

	England 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
		L Hutton	c Tallon b Miller	64				0
		JG Dewes	b Lindwall	10				0
		WJ Edrich	b Lindwall	28				0
		DCS Compton	c Lindwall b Johnston	39				0
		JF Crapp	b Miller	9				0
		NWD Yardley	c Miller b Johnston	9				0
		AJ Watkins	c Hassett b Ring	2			0	0
		TG Evans	b Lindwall	8				0
		AV Bedser	b Johnston	0	5	5	0	0	0.00
		JA Young	not out	3	10	7	0	0	42.85
		WE Hollies	c Morris b Johnston	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
		Extras	(b 9, lb 4, nb 3)	16
		Total	(all out; 105.3 overs)	188	(1.78 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-20 (Dewes), 2-64 (Edrich), 3-125 (Compton), 4-153 (Hutton), 5-164 (Crapp), 6-167 (Watkins), 7-178 (Evans), 8-181 (Bedser), 9-188 (Yardley), 10-188 (Hollies)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	RR Lindwall	25	3	50	3	2.00
	KR Miller	15	6	22	2	1.46
	WA Johnston	27.3	12	40	4	1.45
	SJE Loxton	10	2	16	0	1.60
	DT Ring	28	13	44	1	1.57

Toss England, who chose to bat first Series Australia won the 5-match series 4-0 Test debuts JG Dewes and AJ Watkins (England) Umpires HG Baldwin and D Davies Close of play 14 Aug day 1 - Australia 1st innings 153/2 (AR Morris 77*, AL Hassett 10*) 15 Aug rest day 16 Aug day 2 - England 2nd innings 54/1 (L Hutton 19*, WJ Edrich 23*) 17 Aug day 3 - England 2nd innings 178/7 (NWD Yardley 2*) 18 Aug day 4 - England 2nd innings 188 (105.3 ov) - end of match

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