Bicentennial Test

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Date29 January 1988 – 2 February 1988
LocationAustralia
ResultMatch Drawn
England Australia
The Bicentennial Test
Date29 January 1988 – 2 February 1988
LocationAustralia
ResultMatch Drawn
Teams
England Australia
Captains
Mike Gatting Allan Border
Most runs
139 Chris Broad 196 David Boon
Most wickets
3 Graham Dilley
3 Eddie Hemmings 		4 Peter Taylor
3 Steve Waugh
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The Bicentennial Test was a single Test cricket match played between Australia and England at the Sydney Cricket Ground in celebration of the bicentenary of permanent colonial settlement in Australia. The match took place from 29 January to 2 February 1988 and was drawn. It did not count as part of The Ashes series, in the same way as the Centenary Tests in 1977 and 1980 also were excluded from the Ashes lists.

The match was played in the middle of an England tour to New Zealand, where the team later played three Test matches, all of them also drawn. In late 1987, the England team had toured Pakistan, and Australia had hosted Tests and One Day Internationals against New Zealand. Australia also hosted a single test against Sri Lanka after the Bicentennial test in Perth in February 1988.

Following the test, a one-day international was also played as part of the bicentennial celebrations, which Australia won.[1]

Sydney's reputation for favouring spin bowling led both sides to pick two specialist spin bowlers and to favour medium-pace or fast-medium bowling over out-and-out speed.

England were captained by Mike Gatting, fresh from his finger-wagging confrontation with umpire Shakoor Rana, and lacked several of the big name players of recent years, such as Graham Gooch, David Gower, Allan Lamb, and Ian Botham.

The team was, in batting order:

Australia were captained by Allan Border. The team, in batting order, was:

The match

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