The Australian cricket team played 34 first-class matches in England in 1896, including 3 Tests.
Test series England won the Test series 2–1.
First Test
Second Test
Third Test
Ceylon As on previous voyages to England, the Australians had a stopover in Colombo and played a match on 1 April at Galle Face Green against a Ceylon team, which was drawn.
References
External links CricketArchive – tour summaries
Annual reviews James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly) 1897 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1897
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