Playing 34 matches on tour — three of which were not first-class — including the five Tests, they remained unbeaten, winning 27 and drawing only 7.

The England Cricket Board declined and the series was played over five Tests.

During the 1998 Test series against England, Cronje scored five consecutive fifties, having failed to score one in the nine previous Tests against them.

By the 1880s the tradition of England-Australia cricket tours was well established, with a total of eight Tests having been played, five of them at the MCG, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground and one at The Oval in London.

The following Australian season in 1952-53, Benaud started modestly and in the five first-class matches before the Tests, scored 208 runs at 26. 00 including a 63 and 69, and 14 wickets at 38. 64.

Despite his inability to contribute with either bat or ball in England, Benaud was the only bowler selected for all five Tests of the 1954-55 series when England visited Australia.

He then led Australia on its first full tour of the Indian subcontinent, playing three and five Tests against Pakistan and India respectively.

After three Tests, the series was one – one and Bradman had scored 133 runs in five innings.

The five Tests drew more than 950, 000 spectators including a world record 350, 534 to the Third Test at Melbourne.

In five Tests, he scored 715 runs ( at 178. 75 average ).

The world record for tries in a calendar year is held by Josevata Rokocoko, with 17 tries in 2003 ; he also became the first All Black to score ten tries in his first five Tests, as well as the first All Black to score at least two tries in each of four consecutive Tests.

He made only 194 runs at 32. 33 in five Tests in 1987 – 88 against the touring New Zealand, England and Sri Lanka teams.

The three-match ODI series in England preceded the Tests and Waugh scored 41 runs at 20. 50 and took five wickets at 30. 20.

He also scored half-centuries in the First and Fifth Tests and ended with 416 at 83. 2 from limited opportunities — he played nine innings, only five of which were completed.

He was ineffective in the first three Tests, accumulating only sixty runs in five innings as India took a 2 – 1 lead.

In an eight Test summer, three and five against New Zealand and England respectively, Gavaskar scored centuries in the first and last Tests of the season.

He started consistently, scoring four half centuries in five innings of the first three Tests.

India drew the series 1 – 1 but the following three Test series in New Zealand was to signal the start of a barren run of 19 Tests under Gavaskar of which India were to win only one and lose five.

India played in twelve Tests, losing five and drawing seven.

He made 824 runs with three centuries in the five Tests against Pakistan, and followed this with 557 runs and three more centuries on the West Indies tour of India in 1958-59.

A year later, Sobers led West Indies in five home Tests against New Zealand and all five were drawn.

That year the Welwitschias won all 10 of their Tests, the others being five victories against Zimbabwe and one against Portugal in Lisbon.

* He also scored a century and a double century in the third Test in that same Sri Lanka tour, a feat repeated only five other times in Test cricket history.

He scored a hard hit 41 in 33 minutes with five 4s.

That record remained unbroken until 7 August 2005 when Andrew Flintoff scored five in the first innings and four in the second innings of the second Test at Edgbaston, and again until 12 September 2005, when Kevin Pietersen hit seven sixes in the second innings of the last Test at The Oval.

England ’ s Derek Randall scored 174, Australia ’ s Rod Marsh also got a century, Lillee took 11 wickets, and David Hookes, in his first test, smacked five fours in a row off England captain Tony Greig ’ s bowling.

Smith drove in the series ' first run by hitting a sacrifice fly that scored McGee in Game 1, ultimately going five for nine in St. Louis ' three-game series sweep.

During the contest Smith scored three runs, had five hits, and did not commit an error in the field.

Csonka rushed for 1, 051 yards, averaging over five yards per carry, and scored seven touchdowns.

By the end of the game, Elway was sacked five times and threw three interceptions, and Washington scored another touchdown on a 68-yard fourth quarter drive featuring a 25-yard run by Clark on a reverse and three runs by Smith for 43 yards, the last a 4-yard touchdown to bring the game to its final score of 42 – 10.

Thurman Thomas scored a touchdown, rushed for 135 yards, and caught five passes for 55 yards, giving him 190 total yards from the line of scrimmage.

From there, things started to go downhill slightly, the team scored only five points during Panis ' recovery.

In this year, Nuvolari scored his most impressive victory, thought by many to be the greatest victory in car racing of all times, when at the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, driving an old Alfa Romeo P3 ( 3167 cc, compressor, 265 hp ) versus the dominant, all conquering home team's cars of five Mercedes-Benz W25 ( 3990 cm³, 8C, compressor,, driven by Caracciola, Fagioli, Hermann Lang, Manfred von Brauchitsch and Geyer ) and four Auto Union Tipo B ( 4950 cc, 16C, compressor,, driven by Bernd Rosemeyer, Varzi, Hans Stuck and Paul Pietsch ).

In the 1985 – 86 season, he scored 37 goals in 26 league matches, including six goals against Sparta Rotterdam and five against Heracles Almelo, and won the European Golden Boot.

The record was later equalled by other players, but was bettered only 20 years later, when Lionel Messi scored five goals against Bayer Leverkusen during the 2011-12 Champions League season.

At the UEFA Euro 1988, Van Basten scored a total of five goals, including a hat trick against England, the winning goal in the semi-final against West Germany, and a spectacular volley in the final against the Soviet Union.

Written in highly Sanskritised ( Tatsama ) Bengali, it is the first of five stanzas of a Brahmo hymn composed and scored by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

White also had a strong following in the United Kingdom where he scored five Top 10 hits and one number 1 for " You're The First.

The A's won the Division again in 1972 ; their series with the Tigers went five games, and Jackson scored the tying run in the clincher on a steal of home.

* Honours were scored as follows: four trump honours in one hand 80 ; five trump honours or four aces in no trumps in one hand 100.

Bossy scored 50 goals in 50 games in 1981 and the Islanders lost only three playoff games en route to defeating the Minnesota North Stars in five games to win the Stanley Cup.

Kasparaitis scored the series-clinching goal to advance the Penguins to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they lost in five games to the New Jersey Devils.

As Fox and Warners pressed forward with sound cinema in different directions, both technologically and commercially — Fox with newsreels and then scored dramas, Warners with talking features — so did ERPI, which sought to corner the market by signing up the five allied studios.

The Lakers scored the first five points of the overtime period, but the 76ers went on a 13 – 2 run to end the game, winning by a 107 – 101 score.

With the Pacers trailing the Knicks by 15 points early in the 4th quarter, Miller scored 25 points in the 4th quarter, including five 3-point field goals.