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The 1934 Australian Cricket Team in England, An official team…
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11-Dec-2017
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The 1934 Australian Cricket Team in England, An official team photograph, window mounted, with 15 original pen signatures in the window below: Bill Woodfull (captain), Alan Kippax, Don Bradman, Fleetwood-Smith, Hans Ebeling, Arthur Chipperfield, Bill O'Reilly, Tim Wall, Bill Brown, Len Darling, Stan McCabe, Bert Oldfield, Ben Barnett & officials. Overall 41 x 35 cm. Australia won the 1934 Ashes series against England, winning two of the matches and losing one, with the other two tests drawn. The Australian tourists were captained by Bill Woodfull, while the home side were led by Bob Wyatt, with Cyril Walters deputising for Wyatt in the first Test. In the Second Test of the series at Lord's, known as Verity's Match, left-arm spinner Hedley Verity took 15 wickets to hand England their only victory in a Lord's Ashes Test in the twentieth century. The last two Tests of the series were notable for the prodigious runscoring of Bill Ponsford and Donald Bradman, who shared partnerships of at 388 at Headingley (scoring 181 and 304 respectively) and 451 at the Oval (scoring 266 and 244 respectively) in Ponsford's final Test.
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