Australian cricket team in England in 1968

The Australian cricket team toured England in the 1968 season to play a five-match Test series against England for The Ashes.

Australia retained The Ashes after the series was drawn 1-1.

Test series summary

1st Test at Old Trafford – Australia won by 159 runs
2nd Test at Lord's – match drawn
3rd Test at Edgbaston – match drawn
4th Test at Headingley – match drawn
5th Test at The Oval – England won by 226 runs

References

Annual reviews

Playfair Cricket Annual 1969
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1969

Further reading

Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
Ray Robinson, On Top Down Under, Cassell, 1975

External links

CricketArchive – tour summaries

List of Ashes series (white – in England, yellow – in Australia)

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Non-Ashes Australia v England Test series

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International cricket tours of England

Test and LOI tours

Australia	1880 1882 1884 1886 1888 1890 1893 1896 1899 1902 1905 1909 1912 1921 1926 1930 1934 1938 1948 1953 1956 1961 1964 1968 1972 1975 1977 1980 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2010 2012 2013 2015 2018 2019

Bangladesh	2005 2010

India	1932 1936 1946 1952 1959 1967 1971 1974 1979 1982 1986 1990 1996 2002 2004 2007 2011 2014 2018

Ireland	2017

New Zealand	1931 1937 1949 1958 1965 1969 1973 1978 1983 1986 1990 1994 1999 2004 2008 2013 2015

Pakistan	1954 1962 1967 1971 1974 1978 1982 1987 1992 1996 2001 2006 2010 2016 2018 2019 2020

South Africa	1901 1904 1907 1912 1924 1929 1935 1947 1951 1955 1960 1965 1994 1998 2003 2008 2012 2017 2021

Sri Lanka	1984 1988 1990 1991 1998 2002 2006 2011 2014 2016 2020

West Indies	1928 1933 1939 1950 1957 1963 1966 1969 1973 1976 1980 1984 1988 1991 1995 2000 2004 2007 2009 2011 2012 2017

Zimbabwe	2000 2003

Tournaments hosted

Multiple teams	1912 1975 1979 1983 1999 2004 2009 2013

Other tours

Australian	1868 1878 1919 1945 1988 2009 2018

Bangladeshi	1979 1982 1986 1998

Canadian	1880 1887 1922 1936 1954 1974 1979 1982 1986 2005 2012

Indian	1886 1888 1911

Kenyan	1982 1984 1986 2008

Multi-national	1932 1970 1972 1987

New Zealand	1927 1945

Philadelphian	1884 1889 1897 1903 1908

South African	1894

Sri Lankan	1975 1979 1981

West Indian	1900 1906 1923 1964

Zimbabwean	1982 1985 1986 1990 1993

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