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Later that year, the Honourable Ivo Bligh led a team of eight amateurs and four professionals to Australia to recover them, with the first two matches of the tour played at the MCG.

The first being a timeless match ( as was the custom in those days ) that commenced on 30 December.

On New Year's Day the attendance was 23, 000, and Australia won the match by nine wickets in three days.

The second match commenced on 19 January 1883 and was won comfortably by England by an innings and 27 runs.