afterwards, Steel set off for Australia with his Cambridge University friends Ivo Bligh and the Studd brothers George and Charles, and a team they had put together. They toured Australia in 1882–83 and won the agreed series 2–1, thus being given a small urn. They are commemorated by the poem inscribed on the side of the urn: When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn; Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return; The welkin will ring loud, The great crowd will feel proud, Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn; And the rest coming home with the urn. Steel scored 135 at the Sydney Cricket Ground in a Fourth Test match arranged as an "extra" on that tour, in 1883. Over the whole tour, he topped both the batting and the bowling averages. Steel, who was known by his initials to differentiate him from his brothers, then made his highest Test score, of 148, in 1884 which was the first-ever Test match century scored at Lord's. His name still heads the Honours Board. These efforts led him to achieve the number 1 ranking in ICC Test Batsman Ranking in 1884 (he retained it in 1885 as well). He captained England in 1886 winning all three times – whitewashing the Australians 3–0. His last Test was in 1888, again as captain but losing this one. Later life In 1884, Steel became a Christian through Dwight L. Moody's preaching, after C. T. Studd invited him to attend Moody's campaign meeting. Steel wrote the chapter on bowling in the cricket volume of the Badminton Library (1888). He was president of the Marylebone Cricket Club for 1902. His son Allan Ivo Steel played a handful of first-class matches for MCC and Middlesex but was killed in the First World War. Steel died on 15 June 1914 in Paddington and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. References External links 1858 births 1914 deaths English cricketers Lancashire cricketers England Test cricket captains England Test cricketers Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery Cambridge University cricketers Cricketers from Liverpool Gentlemen cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers Gentlemen of the North cricketers I Zingari cricketers Liverpool and District cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Middlesex cricketers North v South cricketers Orleans Club cricketers People educated at Marlborough College Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club