The England cricket team toured Australia in 1928–29. England, known as the MCC in matches outside the Tests, retained The Ashes, winning the first four Tests and losing the last for a 4–1 series vict
Percy Chapman leads out his powerful 1928–29 England team out onto the field
Scoreboard from the First Test.
Larwood bowling to Beckett at 6–342 in Australia's first innings in the Third Test at Melbourne.
Wally Hammond
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Walter Reginald Hammond was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning as a professional, he later became an amateur and was a
English cricket team in Australia in 1928–29
…in batting, more reliable and consistent in bowling and very definitely superior in fielding. The series was defined by the prodigious runscoring of Wally Hammond, playing his maiden Ashes series, who with a run of scores of 251 at Sydney, 200 and 32 at Melbourne, and 119 not out and 177 at Adelaide, scored a…
Hammond c. 1930
Lord Harris, who was instrumental in Hammond's being unable to play for Gloucestershire in 1922, in his playing days
Sydney Cricket Ground during a cricket match in the 1930s. Hammond scored many runs at Sydney, and it was a favourite venue of his.
Donald Bradman, the best batsman in the world during most of Hammond's career, who in 1930 broke Hammond's record for most runs in a Test series. Hammond later became obsessed with being more successful than Bradman.