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| Venue | Trent Bridge, Nottingham on 17th, 18th, 19th May 1886 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 4 |
| Toss | Australians won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | RP Carpenter, FH Farrands |
| Close of play day 1 | No play |
| Close of play day 2 | Australians (1) 50/1 (Bonnor 28*, Scott 13*) |
| Australians first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GJ Bonnor | b Wright | 28 | |||||
| SP Jones | c Attewell b Barnes | 5 | |||||
| *HJH Scott | b Shaw | 23 | |||||
| G Giffen | run out | 1 | |||||
| JW Trumble | st Sherwin b Shaw | 1 | |||||
| GE Palmer | b Shaw | 4 | |||||
| +JM Blackham | b Shaw | 1 | |||||
| J McIlwraith | b Wright | 2 | |||||
| TW Garrett | run out | 30 | |||||
| FR Spofforth | b Wright | 6 | |||||
| E Evans | not out | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 5 lb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 112.3 overs) | 109 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16, 2-60, 3-60, 4-62, 5-63, 6-65, 7-70, 8-72, 9-90, 10-109 (112.3 ov) | |||||||
| Nottinghamshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Barnes | 17 | 12 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| Shacklock | 8 | 3 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wright | 48 | 35 | 33 | 3 | - | - | |
| Shaw | 39.3 | 24 | 37 | 4 | - | - | |
| Nottinghamshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WH Scotton | b Spofforth | 7 | |||||
| A Shrewsbury | b Spofforth | 8 | |||||
| W Barnes | lbw b Giffen | 3 | |||||
| W Gunn | b Giffen | 1 | |||||
| W Flowers | b Spofforth | 3 | |||||
| J Selby | c Giffen b Spofforth | 22 | |||||
| W Wright | b Giffen | 0 | |||||
| FJ Shacklock | b Spofforth | 14 | |||||
| W Attewell | b Giffen | 2 | |||||
| *A Shaw | not out | 15 | |||||
| +M Sherwin | b Spofforth | 14 | |||||
| Extras | (10 b, 4 lb, 1 nb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 75 overs) | 104 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14, 2-17, 3-21, 4-22, 5-33, 6-38, 7-67, 8-72, 9-72, 10-104 (75 ov) | |||||||
| Australians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Spofforth | 38 | 15 | 58 | 6 | - | 1 | |
| Giffen | 37 | 18 | 31 | 4 | - | - | |
| Australians second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GJ Bonnor | c sub b Attewell | 5 | |||||
| SP Jones | not out | 5 | |||||
| *HJH Scott | b Shacklock | 2 | |||||
| G Giffen | did not bat | ||||||
| JW Trumble | did not bat | ||||||
| GE Palmer | did not bat | ||||||
| +JM Blackham | did not bat | ||||||
| J McIlwraith | did not bat | ||||||
| TW Garrett | did not bat | ||||||
| FR Spofforth | did not bat | ||||||
| E Evans | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 7.3 overs) | 12 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7, 2-12 (7.3 ov) | |||||||
| Nottinghamshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Shacklock | 3.3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | - | - | |
| Attewell | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | - | - | |