2013 The Ashes England Defeats Australia 3-0 in the 5-Match Series Sunday Aug 25,2013

Results of the 2013 The Ashes

Test Match	Venue	Date	England Score	Australia Score	Result
First Test	TrentBridge Nottingham	July 10-14	215 and 375	280 and 296	England won by 14 Runs
Second Test	Lord’s London	July 18-21	361 and 349/7d	128 and 235	England won by 347 Runs
Third Test	Old Trafford Manchester	Aug 1-5	368 and 37/3	527/7d and 172/7d	Match Drawn
Fourth Test	Chester-le-street	Aug 9-12	238 and 330	270 and 224	England won by 74 Runs
Fifth Test	Kennington Oval,London	Aug 21-25	377 and 206/5	492/9d and 111/6d	Match Drawn

 

Top Scorers and Wicket-takers

Leading run-scorers
562 Ian Bell (Eng) - average 62.44
418 Shane Watson (Aus) - average 41.80
388 Kevin Pietersen (Eng) - average 38.80
381 Michael Clarke (Aus) - average 47.62
367 Chris Rogers (Aus) - average 40.77

Leading wicket-takers
26 Graeme Swann (Eng) - average 29.03
24 Ryan Harris (Aus) - average 19.58
22 Stuart Broad (Eng) - average 27.45
22 James Anderson (Eng) - average 29.59
17 Peter Siddle (Aus) - average 31.58

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• With this, England have won 31 Ashes series and have drawn level with Australia. Playing at home, both 

The Ashes Results

Summary -1882  to 2010-11

Country	No of Series Played	No of Series Won	No of Series Lost	No of Series Drawn	No of Tests Won	No of Tests Lost	No of Tests Drawn
Australia	66	31	30	5	123	100	87
England	66	30	31	5	100	123	87

 

Last Decade

• 2001 in England: Australia won 4-1 

• 2002/03 in Australia: Australia won 4-1  

• 2005 in England: England won 2-1 

• 2006/07 in Australia: Australia won 5-0  

• 2009 in England: England won 2-1 

• 2010/11* in Australia: England won 3-1 

*The 2010–11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

• England and Australia have now won 17 Ashes series

• Phillip Hughes and Ashton Agar scored 163 Runs in the first test match, the highest 10th-wicket partnership of all time in Tests

2)Ashton Agar might have missed a maiden hundred but for the man dubbed 'Ashton Who?' two world records in a day was enough as he walked off the ground with a smile and a shrug that won further admiration

• now holds the highest score by a No. 11 of all time by scoring 98 Runs surpassing Tino Best(WI) 95 Runs against England at Edgbaston in 20129(previous-best for Australia was by Glenn McGrath who scored 61 against New Zealand at the Gabba in 2004)

• dominated a transformational stand of 163 in 33 overs for the last wicket - another world record - with Phillip Hughes

3)Ashton Agar's 98 was also only the second half-century by a No.11 batsman in an Ashes Test - the previous one was by Frederick Spofforth at MCG in March 1885

4)Ashton Agar by scoring 98 runs on debut and batting as a No 11 Batsman broke the record for the highest score by a No. 11 batsman on debut held by Warwick Armstrong(Australia) who scored an unbeaten 45 against England in 1902
List of No 11 Batsman who scored on debut -

Player Name	Runs Scored	Opposition	Venue & Date
Ashton Agar(Australia)	98	England	Nottingham  July 10,2013
Chamila Gamage(SL)	40	Bangladesh	Colombo July 28,2002
Norman Cowans(England)	36	Australia	Perth Nov 12,1982
Tinashe Panyangara(Zimbabwe)	32*	Sri Lanka	Harare May 6,2004
Ken Hough(New Zealand)	31*	England	Christchurch Feb 27,1959
Devendra Bishoo(WI)	24	Pakistan	Guyana May 12,2011
Javagal Srinath(India)	21	Australia	Brisbane Nov 29,1991

 

5)Previous Top-scores of No 11 Batsman in Test Matches

Player Name	Runs Scored	Opposition	Venue & Date
Ashton Agar(Australia)	98	England	Nottingham  July 10,2013
Tino Best(West indies)	95	England	Birmingham June 7,2012
Zaheer Khan(India)	75	Bangladesh	Dhaka Dec 10,2004
Richard Collinge(NZ)	68*	Pakistan	Auckland Feb 16,1973
Glenn McGrath(Australia)	61	New Zealand	Brisbane Nov 18,2004
Wasim Bari(Pakistan)	60*	West Indies	Bridgetown Feb 18,1977
John Snow(England)	59*	West Indies	The Oval Aug 18,1966

6)Ashton Agar becomes the 9th player in Test history to finish as the highest scorer in an innings when batting at number 11, and only the second to do so on his debut following Jayantha Amerasinghe's 34 not out from a Sri Lanka first-innings total of 215 against NZ in Kandy in 1984

• This was the 3rd consecutive Ashes series win for England at home

• The last time England won three consecutive series at home was between 1977 and 1985. England won the series 3-0 in 1977, 3-1 in 1981, and 3-1 in 1985

Highlights of the 5th Test Match at Kennington Oval Aug 21-25,2013

• A total of 447 runs were scored on the 5thday(Aug 25,2013) of the 5th Test Match at the kennington Oval which is the most scored in the fifth day ever in an Ashes Test

• Kevin Pietersen's half-century off 36 balls in England's fourth-innings chase was the fastest fifty by an England batsman in the Ashes( Matt Prior, who held this record previously with a 37-ball half-century at Lord's in 2009)

• Brad Haddin's catch off Ryan Harris to dismiss Joe Root* was his 29th of this series. With that catch he broke Rod Marsh's record for the highest number of catches taken by a wicketkeeper in a Test series and also the highest number of dismissals collected by a wicketkeeper in a Test series

Test Match	Venue	Date	England Score	Australia Score	Result
First Test	TrentBridge Nottingham	July 10-14	215 and 375	280 and 296	England won by 14 Runs
Second Test	Lord’s London	July 18-21	361 and 349/7d	128 and 235	England won by 347 Runs
Third Test	Old Trafford Manchester	Aug 1-5	368 and 37/3	527/7d and 172/7d	Match Drawn
Fourth Test	Chester-le-street	Aug 9-12	238 and 330	270 and 224	England won by 74 Runs
Fifth Test	Kennington Oval,London	Aug 21-25	377 and 206/5	492/9d and 111/6d	Match Drawn