 The Australian team toured England in 1893 to compete for The Ashes . The English won the series one Test to nil , with two drawn to recover The Ashes . Playing in all three Tests , Trott scored 146 runs in the series at an average of 29 @.@ 20 and in all first @-@ class matches he scored 1269 runs . While Trott did not take a wicket in the Tests , he took 38 wickets in all first @-@ class matches that season . In the Second Test at the Oval , Trott scored 92 runs in the second innings after the Australians were forced to follow @-@ on ; an innings described as " really superb cricket " and " the finest exhibition he has ever given in England " . England , regardless , still won the match by an innings . Trott was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year . Wisden noted that Trott " batted uncommonly well — much better than in 1890 " but that when bowling he " did a good many brilliant things against the weaker teams , but he was nearly always expensive and very rarely successful when opposed to batsmen of high class " . 
