English cricket team in Australia in 1998–99

1998–99 Ashes Series

Date

20 November 1998 – 6 January 1999

Location

Australia

Result

Australia won the five-Test series 3–1

Player of the series

Steve Waugh (Aus)

Teams
Australia	England
Captains
Mark Taylor	Alec Stewart
Most runs
Steve Waugh (498) Michael Slater (460) Justin Langer (436)	Nasser Hussain (407) Mark Ramprakash (379) Alec Stewart (316)
Most wickets
Stuart MacGill (27) Glenn McGrath (24) Damien Fleming (16)	Darren Gough (21) Dean Headley (19) Alan Mullally (12)

← 1997

2001 →

The England cricket team toured Australia in 1998–99, playing a five-Test series for The Ashes and a number of tour matches against Australian domestic teams. They also played a tri-nation series which included Sri Lanka.

Australia won the Test series 3–1 and retained the Ashes, which were in their possession since 1989. The player of the series was Steve Waugh from Australia. Of the five matches, one was drawn, Australia won three and England won one. Australian captain Mark Taylor won all five coin tosses at the start of each Test.

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Test series

1st Test

20–24 November 1998
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
485 (158 overs) IA Healy 134 (229) AD Mullally 5/105		375 (128.2 overs) MA Butcher 116 (236) GD McGrath 6/85
237/3d (62 overs) MJ Slater 113 (139) DG Cork 1/18		179/6 (68 overs) N Hussain 47 (122) SCG MacGill 3/51

Match drawn
The Gabba, Brisbane
Umpires: KT Francis (SL) and DB Hair (Aus)
Player of the match: GD McGrath (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Play on Day 1 reduced to 89 overs due to bad light.
Play on Day 3 reduced to 75 overs due to bad light and thunderstorms.
Play on Day 5 reduced to 29 overs due to thunderstorms.

2nd Test

28–30 November 1998
Scorecard

England	v	Australia
112 (39 overs) AJ Stewart 38 (29) DW Fleming 5/46		240 (89.2 overs) MA Taylor 61 (144) AJ Tudor 4/89
191 (70.2 overs) GA Hick 68 (73) JN Gillespie 5/88		64/3 (23 overs) ME Waugh 17 (37) D Gough 1/18

Australia won by 7 wickets
WACA Ground, Perth
Umpires: DJ Harper (Aus) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Player of the match: DW Fleming (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to field.
AJ Tudor (Eng) made his Test debut.

3rd Test

11–15 December 1998
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
391 (125.5 overs) JL Langer 179 (350) DW Headley 4/97		227 (82.5 overs) N Hussain 89* (204) SCG MacGill 4/53
278/5d (98 overs) MJ Slater 103 (191) PM Such 2/66		237 (89 overs) AJ Stewart 63* (122) GD McGrath 4/50

Australia won by 205 runs
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Umpires: SA Bucknor (WI) and SJ Davies (Aus)
Player of the match: JL Langer (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

4th Test

26–29 December 1998
Scorecard

England	v	Australia
270 (76 overs) AJ Stewart 107 (160) SCG MacGill 4/61		340 (98.3 overs) SR Waugh 122* (198) D Gough 5/96
244 (80.2 overs) GA Hick 60 (82) MJ Nicholson 3/56		162 (46.4 overs) ME Waugh 43 (81) DW Headley 6/60

England won by 12 runs
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Umpires: SA Bucknor (WI) and DJ Harper (Aus)
Player of the match: DW Headley (Eng)

Australia won the toss and elected to field.
No play was possible on Day 1 due to rain.
MJ Nicholson (Aus) and WK Hegg (Eng) made their Test debuts.

5th Test

2–5 January 1999
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
322 (87.3 overs) ME Waugh 121 (205) DW Headley 4/62		220 (80.1 overs) JP Crawley 44 (75) SCG MacGill 5/57
184 (64.5 overs) MJ Slater 123 (189) PM Such 5/81		188 (66.1 overs) N Hussain 53 (129) SCG MacGill 7/50

Australia won by 98 runs
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
Umpires: RS Dunne (NZ) and DB Hair (Aus)
Player of the match: SCG MacGill (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Darren Gough took a hat-trick. It was the first Ashes hat-trick by an Englishman in almost 100 years and the first hat-trick taken in Sydney in almost 107 years.

References

Playfair Cricket Annual
Wisden Cricketers Almanack

The Ashes

List of Ashes series

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Non-Ashes Australia v England Test series
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Matches in white background were played in England, yellow – in Australia.

International cricket tours of Australia

Test and LOI tours
Afghanistan	2021–22
Bangladesh	2003 2008
England	1876–77 1878–79 1881–82 1882–83 1884–85 1886–87 1887–88 1891–92 1894–95 1897–98 1901–02 1903–04 1907–08 1911–12 1920–21 1924–25 1928–29 1932–33 1936–37 1946–47 1950–51 1954–55 1958–59 1962–63 1965–66 1970–71 1974–75 1977 1978–79 1979–80 1982–83 1986–87 1987–88 1990–91 1994–95 1998–99 2002–03 2006–07 2010–11 2013–14 2017–18 2021–22 2022–23
India	1947–48 1967–68 1977–78 1980–81 1985–86 1991–92 1999–2000 2003–04 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2015–16 2018–19 2020–21 2024–25
New Zealand	1973–74 1980–81 1982–83 1985–86 1987–88 1989–90 1993–94 1997–98 2001–02 2004–05 2008–09 2011–12 2015–16 2016–17 2019–20 2022–23
Pakistan	1964–65 1972–73 1976–77 1978–79 1981–82 1983–84 1989–90 1992–93 1995–96 1996–97 1999–2000 2002 2004–05 2009–10 2016–17 2019–20 2023–24
South Africa	1910–11 1931–32 1952–53 1963–64 1971–72 (cancelled) 1993–94 1997–98 2000 2001–02 2005–06 2008–09 2012–13 2014–15 2016–17 2018–19 2022–23
Sri Lanka	1987–88 1989–90 1995–96 2004 2007–08 2010–11 2012–13 2016–17 2018–19 2019–20 2021–22
West Indies	1930–31 1951–52 1960–61 1968–69 1975–76 1979–80 1981–82 1984–85 1988–89 1992–93 1995–96 1996–97 2000–01 2005–06 2009–10 2012–13 2015–16 2020–21 2022–23 2023–24
Zimbabwe	1994–95 2003–04 2022

Tournaments hosted
World Cup	1992 2015
T20 World Cup	2022
Tri-series	1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2017–18
Other multi-team tournaments	1985 1987

Other tours
Afghanistan	2014–15
Australian Forces	1919–20 1945–46
English	1861–62 1863–64 1873–74 1902–03 1922–23 1929–30 1935–36 1979–80
England Lions	2012–13 2021
Fijian	1907–08
Ireland	2014–15
Multi-national	1971–72 2005–06
Nepal	2023–24
New Zealand	1898–99 1913–14 1925–26 1927–28 1937–38 1953–54 1961–62 1967–68 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1974–75
PNG	2014–15
Scotland	2014–15
Sri Lanka	1982–83
UAE	2014–15
World Series Cricket (West Indies & World XI)	1977-78 1978-79

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