Victory Tests
One indicates by Victory Tests a series of matches of Cricket played in England between the May 19th and the August 22nd 1945. It thus began a few days after the end from the Second world war in Europe. She opposed a team of soldiers Australia NS cricketers, the '' Australian Services '', with the England. In spite of their name, these matches were not tests, the Australian Cricket Board refusing this statute to them, fearing that the Australian team was not enough strong to face an English team of a very good level. The matches thus accepted the statute of first-class and exploited three days each one.
Five matches of first-class cricket were played between the Australian Services and England, each of both by gaining two, for a Draw. The series touched many people: a total of: 367000 spectators attended these five matches. The last of the three played matches with Lord' S attracted: 93000 spectators with him only, a record at the time for a three days match.
Teams
The “Australian Services”
See also: Australian Services
The Australian Services is made up players who, officially, constitute a military Unité. They are stationed in England with an aim of constituting a team which will carry out a round in the country.
Only one of the players with already played for the team of Australia, the captain Lindsay Hassett, who became captain of the selection thereafter. The Australian Services account also in its rows promising the Keith Miller, which will become one of the best players of the history of the Australian cricket.
England
The team of England which faces the Australian Services is on paper much stronger, in any case on the level of the beaters. She counts in particular in her rows Len Hutton, Wally Hammond, the Hearts, Bill Edrich and Cyril Washbrook, of the players who already played all in Test cricket with the team of England. At that time, Hutton holds the record of the greatest number of runs in a Innings in Test cricket , with 364 runs marked against the Australia in 1938, and Hammond, which has more than 40 years at the time of the Victoria Tests , will have marked at the end of its international career 7249 runs with the average of 58.45 by Innings .Magré the fact that the English beaters are stronger than the Australian ones, they will succeed in exceeding 300 runs in a innings only once during the round.
Their Bowler S is weaker, and several changes are made during the series. That functions for the last match, when Australia is restricted in its two innings with less than 250 runs , but none the bowlers really powerful or is selected regularly, with share Dick Pollard, which takes a total of 25 '' wickets '' at the time of the four matches that he plays. George Pope takes 8 wickets at the time of the second match, but lack the third and then returned to take 4 wickets in the fourth match.
The series
Appendices
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