England retained the Ashes with a draw at Old Trafford (Picture: Getty) Alastair Cook 6/10 Averages just 24.16 this series. So a more positive score (blue) means Australia have a higher average, whereas a more negative score (red) means England have a higher average. The Ashes 2013 Sun, July 21, 2013 All the best images from the 2013 Ashes series. From these two graphs you can see England's early dominance of the batting game, with a run of higher average scores from 1884/85 to 1894/95. England won 3-0 at home, but the Australians were at pains to explain that the difference between the two teams wasn't as much as that. Rundown of the 16 players selected to represent Australia at the 2013 Ashes series in England. However, the Australian attack worked as a pack, and if Johnson didn't have Bell's number, then Harris and Siddle did: both dismissed Bell three times each, and gave very little away. With the ball, they took four more wickets than Australia's bowlers. At tea on the opening day of the Gabba Test, Australia, after choosing to bat, had been reduced to 153 for 6. Pace like fire There's an obvious outlier in 1938 for Australia, with the highest bowling average of 55.57, in which year the Test series was drawn. Not a whole lot to choose between the teams there. There was thus at least one Australian bowler who had the wood on each of England's top-order batsmen. The 2013–14 Ashes (named Commonwealth Bank Ashes Series for sponsorship reasons) was a Test cricket series between England and Australia. The Australian batting wasn't always top-class, but the bowling was terrifying - they took 100 wickets for the first time in a five-Test Ashes series, and the strike rate was their best in an Ashes series since 1896. England, on the other hand, were hurt badly by the lack of significant contributions down the order. 34.85 Alastair Cook’s Test average in 2013, his lowest in a calendar year. Get live statistics of The Ashes 2013. Haddin won most of his battles against England's bowlers, averaging 108 against Anderson, 76 against Broad, and not falling once to Swann or Panesar. The Ashes 2013-14. Photo: 1 / 73; Pause slideshow > This graph shows the mean bowling average – runs conceded by a bowler divided by wickets taken – per innings, for each bowler. The Ashes 4. Look down the second half of the partnership tables, though, and huge differences emerge. Then, Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson, quite fittingly, put together Australia's first significant statement of the series, adding 114 for the seventh wicket, before Johnson started working over England's batsmen. However, most of the other Australian batsmen struggled in the first innings. Overall, Australia has a slightly lower bowling average at 30.15 versus England's 32.19. They also have won more tests than England, with Australia at 123 to England's 100. Prior to this Ashes series, the Australian team was labelled the worst to ever leave its shores on an Ashes quest. Siddle took the least wickets among Australia's three fast bowlers, but did wonderfully against England's two main middle-order batsmen, Bell and Pietersen. In their only other 5-0 Ashes triumph, in 1920-21, Australia's ratio was 1.63 (batting average 46.13, bowling average 28.35). England's fast bowlers didn't do too badly, averaging a respectable 34.86, but their batting was so poor that they didn't stand a chance. His strike-rate was 71.55. England are in Australia to defend the Ashes they won at home last year, it will not be an easy task and Alastair Cook and Andy Flower will be wanting to take the team they believe can win over the coming weeks. Cricinfo - The Ashes 2005 - Statistics and Averages Global Gameplay Stats Ashes Cricket 2013. It shows a similar pattern to batting, with the obvious good periods for both teams. Rogers scored only 27 runs from 107 balls off Graeme Swann, but handled the pace of Stokes and Anderson far more comfortably. Johnson dominated almost all the England batsmen right through the series, but the one batsman who withstood his onslaught and didn't get out to him even once was Ian Bell: in 98 balls Bell scored 48 runs without being out. Kevin Pietersen managed only 115 in the first innings, while Ian Bell scored 121 - though he was unbeaten once, in Adelaide. Johnson, meanwhile, took 16 second-wickets at 16.12. Read on for more stats highlights. In this series, the ratio of batting averages of the two teams was 1.92: Australia's average of 41.41 runs per wicket was 1.92 times England's average of 21.58. The mean weekly paid hours of work for full-time men were 40.1 hours compared with 37.4 for women. 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In the second innings, when the pitches started helping spinners more, Lyon proved quite a handful, but England's spinners were completely ineffective, and the match situations and lack of pressure on the Australian batsmen didn't help either. However, the Australians may take comfort from looking at the trends of Ashes results over time, which suggests each team cycles through periods of good and bad form and that, on the whole, the Australians win more than they lose. More than you might think, England are playing with a previously unimagined sense of adventure, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth spins himself into Jaffna history books. Global Achievements % of all players. In the second innings, Anderson took just four wickets and each of them cost him 67.25 runs, while Broad's four wickets cost him 47.25 each. Find all of the season's The Ashes 2013 results. 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Of the ten centuries Australia scored, six were in the second innings, including two each by Warner and Rogers, and one by Watson. One century stand is also England's poorest effort in an Ashes campaign since 1950-51. To comment on crosswords, please, switch over to the new version to comment. Live stats including most runs, top wicket takers, best averages, catches, fifties & more from The Ashes 2013 Australia's sixth-wicket stands in the first innings were 32, 200, 124, 10 and 128, with Haddin being a common factor in all those stands. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images In 1989, when they won 4-0 in England, they averaged 57.86 with the bat and 27.71 with the ball; in the 2006-07 clean sweep, they averaged 52.77 with the bat and 26.35 with the ball, a ratio of 2.00. Also, the top order got starts, but failed to push on towards substantial scores: there were only two 50-plus stands in the first innings, but seven partnerships between 44 and 49. Check the Stats & Records of The Ashes, 2013/14 - England, / , Records, / , Batting and bowling averages Players in Wicket keeper Batting Bowling Ashes 2013: Alec Stewart tips England for winter series win. Given that Australia had a first-innings lead of 130-plus in four of the five Tests, the one instance where second-innings runs were scored under pressure was in Melbourne, when Australia chased a target of 231 and won comfortably, with Rogers getting 116 and Watson getting 83. Aussie domination 24 Ryan Harris (Aus) - average 19.58 ... Tests 5 Runs 170 Average 28.33 Wickets 18 Average 31.16 Catches 1 Batsmen who only appeared for one innings have been excluded, and this table shows the average score per innings for each batsman. Give feedback Repeatedly they were five down for not too many, and needed Brad Haddin and the lower order to bail them out. He was sent to Zimbabwe with Australia A before returning to play the final three Tests, scoring 138 runs at an average … His failures were in the second innings when Australia were generally under less pressure. Australia's fast bowlers averaged 18.35 runs per wicket, which is the best by either team in an Ashes series since 1890. England didn't do too badly in the first innings either: Stuart Broad's 17 wickets cost 22.88 each, Anderson's 10 came at 34.60 and Ben Stokes took 10 at 27.80, but then Australia's first-innings bowling was so strong, and England's batting so feeble, that by the time the second innings came along, Australia already had such a big lead and England's bowlers had had so little time to put their feet up, that the second innings was a no-contest. 16.00 Matt Prior’s average in eight Tests since winning England’s Player of the Year award in May. Ranking the bowlers by bowling average is tricky, due to the data being skewed by players with smaller numbers of appearances. England have taken the highest average in the last Test, with 48.13 in 2010/11. This graph shows the difference between each team's average, using Australia as the base. England lead the series 3-0 after a 74-run win in the fourth Test in Durham.. Kerrigan's career. Sir Donald Bradman’s 89.78 is the highest average in Ashes. This graph takes the average of scores of each team's batsmen per innings for every Ashes test since 1882 (excluding the Triangular Tournament of 1912). 367 Chris Rogers (Aus) - average 40.77. England's opening partnerships in the first innings were actually more substantial than Australia's: in Perth, Cook and Carberry added 85, before the rest of the batting crumbled. He … By Cameron Leslie. In the first innings, especially, Australia's quick men were unstoppable. Ashes 2013 series stats; Team: Runs scored: Wkts lost: Average: 100s/ 50s: Run rate: Bowl SR: Australia: 2735: 89: 30.73: 4/ 13: 3.37: 67.4: England: 2856: 85: 33.60: 5/ 13: 2.99: 54.7 In fact, it's the best by the pace attack of either team in an Ashes series since 1890. The highest was in 1886, when England won a three-Test series 3-0; they averaged 31.02 with the bat and 13.20 with the ball. In the entire history of Ashes contests (excluding one-off Tests), this is the fourth-largest ratio between the averages of the winning and losing teams. In comparison, part-time employees worked 18.1 hours per week. When England won 3-1 in Australia on their last tour, their batting average was 1.75 times the bowling average. Is England's use of signals from the balcony a big deal? The Ashes scores, The Ashes 2013 results. Ashes runs scored: 10,500, for the loss of 271 wickets at an average of 38.75 runs per wicket. Hesitant Australia take up the next four positions in the table below, with all those wins happening in the last 25 years. Read about The Ashes, 2013 - England, / , Records, / , Batting and bowling averages Cricket Team Records only on ESPNcricinfo.com. There's a similar small edge to Australia with the batting stats, with an average of 27.7 runs per batsmen to England's 25.94. Australia's cricket team has been in the doldrums since England reclaimed the urn in 2009. It also shows clearly the areas Australia will need to address before what's likely to be a tough tour to South Africa. We break down Australia and England's batting and bowling averages for every Ashes series, England's Jonny Bairstow in action during the 2013 Ashes test series. Ashes 2013-14: Australian players' report card ... Brad Haddin scored 493 runs at an average of 61.62 in the series. Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off. The Investec Ashes 2013 England apologise for Oval revelry. Read about The Ashes, 2013/14 - England, / , Records, / , Batting and bowling averages Cricket Team Records only on ESPNcricinfo.com. He is the only batsman to have scored more than 1000 Ashes runs and has an average over 70. Check the Stats & Records of The Ashes, 2013 - England, / , Records, / , Batting and bowling averages Players in Wicket keeper Batting Bowling Yet, England failed to drive home the advantage, as Haddin found at least one batting partner each time to rescue the team. David Warner, Chris Rogers and Shane Watson all averaged less than 35, while George Bailey had a shocker, aggregating 64 in five innings. Ashes 2013: how the England players rated on their way to defeating Australia to win summer Test series. The brand of cricket they played was attritional; it had served them well over the last few years, and it worked here too: they scored their runs much slower than Australia, but they batted longer, gave their bowlers longer periods of rest, and won all the key moments. All rights reserved. England averaged 21.58 runs per wicket with the bat, their lowest Ashes average since 1950-51, while Australia's average was a healthy 41.41. © 2016 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. England lead the Ashes series 1-0 after beating Australia by 14 runs in a dramatic end to the first Test at Trent Bridge. England's bowlers had a few head-to-head battles to cherish - like Broad's domination of George Bailey and Anderson's successes against Watson - but they weren't nearly enough in a five-match series. CRR: 2.32, Southern PNJ trail by 342 runs. 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