Ashes Tour 1964

The Ashes tour in 1964 was the tour of the Australian Cricket Team , the 42nd staging of the Ashes included, and was held between June 4 and 18 August 1964th The international cricket tour was part of the 1964 international cricket season and included five test matches . Australia won the series 1-0.

prehistory

It was the first tour of the season for both teams. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 1962/63 season in Australia .

London (Lord's)

London (oval)

Tour venues

The following stages have been designated as the venue for the tour.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Headingley Stadium	Leeds	17,000	3rd test
The oval	London	23,500	5th test
Lord's Cricket Ground	London	30,000	2nd test
Old Trafford Cricket Ground	Manchester	19,000	4th test
Trent Bridge	Nottingham	15,350	1st test

The teams named the following squads.

test
England	Australia
David Allen Bob Barber Ken Barrington Geoff Boycott Tom Cartwright Len Coldwell Chris Cowdrey Ted Dexter John Edrich Jack Flavell Norman Gifford John Mortimore Peter Parfitt Jim Parks John Price Fred Rumsey Phil Sharpe Paul Taylor Fred Titmus Fred Trueman	Brian Booth Peter Burge Grahame Corling Bob Cowper Wally Grout Neil Hawke Bill Lawry Graham McKenzie Norm O'Neill Ian Redpath Bob Simpson Tom Veivers

During the tour, Australia played 26 tour matches.

June 4-9 scorecard	Nottingham	England 216-8d (102) & 193-9d (66.5)	-	Australia 168 (78.3) & 40-2 (9.2)
		draw

June 18-23 Scorecard	London (Lord's)	Australia 176 (84) & 168-4 (74)	-	England 246 (99.3)
		draw

July 2-6 scorecard	Leeds	England 268 (103.3) & 229 (89.5)	-	Australia 389 (158.3) & 111-3 (57)
		Australia wins with 7 wickets

July 23-28 Scorecard	Manchester	Australia 656-8d (255.5) & 4-0 (2)	-	England 611 (293.1)
		draw

August 13-18 Scorecard	London (oval)	England 182 (71.4) & 381-4 (163)	-	Australia 379 (177.3)
		draw