 The 1899 Australian tour saw Trumble score 1 @,@ 183 runs and take 142 wickets ; he was only the second Australian , after George Giffen , to score 1 @,@ 000 runs and take 100 wickets in an English season as part of a touring team . In the Test series , Trumble took 15 wickets at an average of 25 @.@ 00 and made 232 runs at an average of 38 @.@ 66 . Wisden said of Trumble 's batting that season , " [ Trumble ] played so consistently well as to make it clear that if he had not been a bowler he would have been a great batsman " . Dry pitches saw his bowling average fall off a little from the 1896 tour but Wisden stated that he " bowled quite as well as in 1896 " and " [ he ] never seemed easy to hit , and whenever the ground gave him least advantage ... he was deadly " . Australia won the Second Test by 10 wickets and with the other Tests finishing in draws , they retained the Ashes in a one Test to nil series victory . Trumble played particularly well in the Third Test at Headingley , where he took 5 wickets for 60 runs and was the highest run @-@ scorer in the Australian second innings with 56 . 
