Ashes Tour 1986/87

The Ashes Tour 1986/87 was the tour of the English national cricket team , which included the 54th edition of the Ashes , and was carried out between November 14, 1986 and January 15, 1987. The Ashes Series 1986/87 itself was played in the form of five test matches between Australia and England. The venues were always Australian stadiums. In addition to the test series, the tour included a number of other games between the two teams in the winter of 1986/87 . The test series was won by England with 2–1.

prehistory

Australia previously played a tour in India , for England it was the first tour of the season. The last meeting of the two teams took place in the 1985 season in England .

Stages

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

Adelaide Brisbane Melbourne Perth (WACA) Sydney

Tour venues

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Adelaide oval	Adelaide	53,583	3rd test
The gabba	Brisbane	42,000	1st test
Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne	100.024	4th test
WACA Ground	Perth	20,000	2nd test
Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney	48,000	5th test

Squad lists

The following squads were named by the teams.

test
Australia	England
David Boon Allan Border Greg Dyer Merv Hughes Dean Jones Geoff Lawson Geoff Marsh Greg Matthews Greg Matthews Craig McDermott Bruce Reid Greg Ritchie Peter Sleep Mark Taylor Steve Waugh Dirk Wellham Tim Zoehrer	Bill Athey Ian Botham Chris Broad Phil DeFreitas Graham Dilley Phil Edmonds John Emburey Mike Gatting David Gower Allan Lamb Jack Richards Gladstone Small James Whitaker

Tour matches

October 24-27 Scorecard	Brisbane	England XI 135 (56.4) & 339 (63.2)	-	Queensland 311-7d (117) & 164-5 (50.3)
		Queensland wins with 5 wickets

October 31 - November 3 scorecard	Adelaide	South Australia 305-8d (101) & 269 (95.1)	-	England XI 407 (102.4) & 169-5 (53.2)
		England XI wins with 5 wickets

November 7-10 scorecard	Perth	Western Australia 275 (79.4) & 207-8d (207.8)	-	England XI 152 (50.5) & 153-6 (57)
		draw

November 21-23 Scorecard	Newcastle	England XI 197 (85.3) & 82 (37.4)	-	New South Wales 181 (94.4) & 99-2 (48.1)
		New South Wales wins with 8 wickets

December 5-9 scorecard	Melbourne	Victoria 101 (52) & 345 (131.1)	-	England XI 263 (68.5) & 184-5 (45.1)
		England wins with 5 wickets

December 18-21 Scorecard	Hobart	Tasmania 79 (50.2) & 167 (56.3)	-	England XI 342-9d (94.5)
		England wins with 96 runs

Testing

First test in Brisbane

November 14th - 19th Scorecard	Brisbane	England 456 (134) & 77-3 (22.3)	-	Australia 248 (104.4) & 282 (116.5) (f / o)
		England wins with 7 wickets

Second test in Perth

November 28th - December 3rd scorecard	Perth	England 592-8d (170.1) & 199-8d (53.3)	-	Australia 401 (134.4) & 197-4 (97)
		draw

Third test in Adelaide

December 12-16 Scorecard	Adelaide	Australia 514-5d (171) & 201-3d (90)	-	England 455 (148.4) & 39-2 (23)
		draw

Fourth test in Melbourne

December 26-28 Scorecard	Melbourne	Australia 141 (54.4) & 194 (73.4)	-	England 349 (120.5)
		England won with one innings and 14 runs

Fifth test in Sydney

January 10-15 Scorecard	Sydney	Australia 343 (144.5) & 251 (117)	-	England 275 (94) & 264 (114)
		Australia wins with 55 runs

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo