1953 English cricket season

The 1953 English cricket season saw a tight Test series between England and Australia that was settled, after four drawn matches, in the final Test at The Oval, where England won to reclaim The Ashes for the first time since the Bodyline series of 1932/33. It was the 41st test series between the two sides.^[1]

The County Championship was won by Surrey for the second consecutive season.^{[2] [1]}

Honours

• County Championship - Surrey
• Minor Counties Championship - Berkshire
• Wisden (honour awarded in 1954 Wisden Cricketer's Almanack for deeds done in 1953 English season) - Neil Harvey, Tony Lock, Keith Miller, Johnny Wardle, Willie Watson

County Championship

Test series

Leading batsmen

Leading bowlers

References

Annual reviews

• Playfair Cricket Annual 1954
• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1954

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 – season summary

The Ashes
List of Ashes series (white – in England, yellow – in Australia)
1850	1884 1886 1888 1890 1893 1896 1899 1882–83 1884–85 1886–87 1887–88 1891–92 1894–95 1897–98
1900	1902 1905 1909 1912 World War I 1921 1926 1930 1934 1938 World War II 1948 1901–02 1903–04 1907–08 1911–12 1920–21 1924–25 1928–29 1932–33 1936–37 1946–47
1950	1953 1956 1961 1964 1968 1972 1975 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 1950–51 1954–55 1958–59 1962–63 1965–66 1970–71 1974–75 1978–79 1982–83 1986–87 1990–91 1994–95 1998–99
2000	2001 2005 2009 2013 2015 2002–03 2006–07 2010–11 2013–14 2017–18
Non-Ashes Australia v England Test series 1876–77 1878–79 1880 1881–82 1882 1945 1976–77 1979–80 1980 1987–88