Ashes Tour 2017/18

The Ashes Tour 2017/18 was the tour of England's national cricket team that included the 70th edition of the Ashes and was conducted between November 23, 2017 and January 28, 2018. The Ashes Series 2017/18 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 another ODI series between the two teams in winter 2017/18 . Australia won the Test Series 4–0, England the ODI Series 4–1.

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 on a tour took place in England in the 2015 season . Immediately after this tour, the two teams will hold a three-nation tournament together with New Zealand . For the first time, an international cricket game was held in the newly built Perth Stadium at the fifth ODI .

Stages

Adelaide Brisbane Melbourne Perth (WACA) Perth (PS) Sydney

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and were set on December 12, 2016.

city	Stadion	capacity	Games
Adelaide	Adelaide oval	53,583	2. test; 4. ODI
Brisbane	The gabba	42,000	1st test; 2. ODI
Melbourne	Melbourne Cricket Ground	100.024	4. test; 1. ODI
Perth	Perth Stadium	60,000	5. ODI
Perth	WACA Ground	20,000	3rd test
Sydney	Sydney Cricket Ground	48,000	5. test; 3. ODI

Squad lists

England named their test roster on September 27th and ODI roster on December 6th, 2017. Australia named their test roster on November 17th, 2017 and their ODI roster on December 3rd, 2018.

test		ODI
Australia	England	Australia	England
Steve Smith ( K ) David Warner ( UK ) Ashton agar Cameron Bancroft Jackson Bird Pat Cummins Peter Handscomb Josh Hazlewood Usman Khawaja Nathan Lyon Mitchell Marsh Shaun Marsh Glenn Maxwell Tim Paine ( wk ) Chadd Sayers Mitchell Starc	Joe Root ( K ) James Anderson ( UK ) Moeen Ali Jonny Bairstow ( wk ) Jake Ball Gary Ballance Stuart Broad Alastair Cook Mason Crane Tom Curran Steven Finn Ben Foakes ( wk ) George Garton Dawid Malan Craig Overton Ben Stokes Mark Stoneman Chris Woakes James Vince	Steve Smith ( K ) David Warner ( UK ) Alex Carey ( wk ) Pat Cummins Aaron Finch Josh Hazlewood Travis Head Chris Lynn Mitchell Marsh Glenn Maxwell Tim Paine ( wk ) Jhye Richardson Mitchell Starc Marcus Stoinis Andrew Tye Cameron White Adam Zampa	Eoin Morgan ( K ) Moeen Ali Jonny Bairstow Jake Ball Sam Billings Jos Buttler ( wk ) Tom Curran Alex Hales Dawid Malan Liam Plunkett Adil Rashid Joe Root Jason Roy Ben Stokes David Willey Chris Woakes Mark Wood

Tour matches

November 4-5 Scorecard	Perth	England XI 349-6d (91)	-	Western Australia XI 342 (86)
		draw

November 8-11 Scorecard	Adelaide	England XI 293 (95) & 207 (67.4)	-	Cricket Australia XI 233-9d (76) & 75 (40.1)
		England wins with 192 runs

November 15-18 Scorecard	Townsville	Cricket Australia XI 250 (91.3) & 364 (110)	-	England XI 515 (142.5)
		draw

December 9-10 scorecard	Perth (RP)	England XI 314-9 (69.2) & 130-3d (20)	-	Cricket Australia XI 151-4d (50) & 269-8 (36.5)
		draw

January 11th scorecard	Sydney	Cricket Australia XI 258-9 (50)	-	England XI 259-5 (40.5)
		England XI wins with 5 wickets

Testing

First test in Brisbane

November 23-27 Scorecard	Brisbane	England 302 (116.4) & 195 (71.4)	-	Australia 328 (130.3) & 173-0 (50)
		Australia wins with 10 wickets

Second test in Adelaide

December 2-6 scorecard	Adelaide	Australia 442-8d (149) & 138 (58)	-	England 227 (76.1) & 223 (84.2)
		Australia wins with 120 runs

Third test in Perth

December 14-18 scorecard	Perth (WACA)	England 403 (115.1) & 218 (72.5)	-	Australia 662-9d (179.3)
		Australia wins with one innings and 41 runs

Fourth test in Melbourne

December 26th - 30th scorecard	Melbourne	Australia 327 (119) & 263-4d (124.2)	-	England 491 (144.1)
		draw

The pitch was the World Association ICC as poor rated.

Fifth test in Sydney

January 4-8 Scorecard	Sydney	England 346 (112.3) & 180 (88.1)	-	Australia 649-7 (193)
		Australia won with one innings and 123 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Melbourne

January 14th scorecard	Melbourne	Australia 304-8 (50)	-	England 308-5 (48.5)
		England wins with 5 wickets

Second ODI in Brisbane

January 19th scorecard	Brisbane	Australia 270-9 (50)	-	England 274-6 (44.2)
		England wins with 4 wickets

Third ODI in Sydney

January 21 scorecard	Sydney	England 302-6 (50)	-	Australia 286-6 (50)
		England wins with 16 runs

Fourth ODI in Adelaide

January 26th scorecard	Adelaide	England 196 (44.5)	-	Australia 197-7 (37)
		Australia wins with 3 wickets

Fifth ODI in Perth

January 28th scorecard	Perth (PS)	England 259 (47.4)	-	Australia 247 (48.2)
		England wins with 12 runs

Web links

• The series on espncricinfo.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adelaide to host maiden Ashe's day-night test . Cricinfo. December 12, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
2. ^ Andrew McGlashan: Vince recalled, Stokes included in Ashes squad ( English ) Cricinfo. September 27, 2017. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
3. ↑ George Dobell: Stokes and Hales included in England one-day squad ( English ) Cricinfo. January 6, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
4. ↑ Daniel boardy: Paine, Marsh, Bancroft in Australia's Ashes squad ( English ) Cricinfo. November 17, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
5. ↑ Deniel Brettig: Maxwell dropped; Lynn and Paine Recalled ( English ) Cricinfo. January 3, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
6. ↑ Daniel boardy: MCG pitch rated poor by ICC ( english ) Cricinfo. January 2, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2018.