Notable Events
- 30 January. England won the deciding match of the scheduled three-Test series in Melbourne (although an additional match was arranged later). Some ladies burned the bails and placed the resultant ashes in a small urn. This was presented to England’s captain, Ivo Bligh, who had promised to "recover those ashes". The urn is kept in a glass case at Lord’s but England and Australia have been playing for the Ashes ever since.
- George Harrison became the first bowler to take 100 wickets in the season in which he made his debut in first-class cricket.
- George Ulyett scored 1,562 runs with a highest score of 84. Not until Charles Harris in 1935 did a player scoring no centuries score more runs in a season.
- Ulyett’s feat of getting within eleven runs of the leading scorer with no centuries has been approached since only by David Green in 1965.
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