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Ashes Test guide: What is England's record at the Adelaide Oval?

How many Ashes Tests have England won at Adelaide? Who has hit our highest score? Who has taken the most wickets?

England's Ashes record at the Adelaide Oval

Wins: 9
Losses: 17
Draws: 5
Highest total: 620/5 in 2010
Lowest total: 124 in 1895
Highest score: Kevin Pietersen - 227 v Australia in 2010
Most runs: Jack Hobbs - 601
Best bowling: Jack White - 8/126 v Australia in 1979
Most wickets: Johnny Briggs - 16

Day-night delight 

England head to Adelaide for the first ever day-night Ashes Test match and only the second in their history.

Joe Root will be hoping to replicate his side’s performance in their debut pink ball clash back in August when they thrashed the West Indies by an innings and 209 runs at Edgbaston.

Alastair Cook batted for nearly 10 hours to rack up 243, his third highest Test score, while Root added 143 as England declared on 514/8. Stuart Broad took five in the match as he overtook Sir Ian Botham to become England’s second-highest wicket-taker.

But Australia have a good record in Adelaide – beating South Africa there last year and New Zealand in 2015, both in day-night contests.

An emphatic win in 2010

Fresh from a draw in Brisbane seven years ago, England cruised to an innings-and-71-run victory at the Adelaide Oval with Kevin Pietersen's sparkling 227 the standout performance.

England's bowlers laid the foundations on day one with James Anderson taking four wickets, including two in his first seven balls, as the hosts found themselves three down with just two runs on the board.

They recovered to make 245 – a total dwarfed by a Pietersen-inspired England, who rattled along at more than four runs an over. Alastair Cook followed up his Gabba heroics with another century as England made 620 for five, their highest score at the ground.

Australia fared slightly better in making 304 but, with Graeme Swann taking 5-91, it was England who took a series lead.

Atherton's men triumph

Prior to that, England’s last triumph came in 1995, when, trailing 2-0 after three matches, Mike Atherton's injury-hit side triumphed to give themselves a chance of drawing the series.

The tourists, who had to call up six replacements during the tour and even had to enlist the team physio to field before he broke a finger, posted 353 in their first innings thanks to 117 from Mike Gatting and 80 from the captain, but Australia replied with 419 courtesy of a hundred on debut from Greg Blewett.

A remarkable victory against the odds with the only 11 fit players we had remaining

Michael Atherton

Graham Thorpe and John Crawley hit 83 and 71 respectively when England batted again but they looked in trouble at 181/6 before a swashbuckling 88 from Phil DeFreitas left Australia needing 263 to win in 67 overs on the final day.

It would be England's moment, however, with Devon Malcolm and Chris Lewis taking four wickets each to claim victory with just 5.5 overs remaining. Twenty years earlier, England recovered from 27 for five in their first innings of the fifth Test to triumph by 205 runs in a series they eventually won 5-1.

Bodyline spills over

Possibly the most famous Test at the venue was back in 1933 when England won what is known as the ‘Battle of Adelaide’.

After the tourists scored 341 batting first, emotions ran high on day three when Harold Larwood’s bouncer struck Australian wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield on the head and forced him off the field.

Mounted police were needed to keep the 50,962 crowd in check as the 'Bodyline Series' sunk to a new low.

England v Australia in Adelaide

1884: England won by eight wickets

1892: England won by innings and 230 runs

1895: Australia won by 382 runs

1898: Australia won by innings and 13 runs

1902: Australia won by four wickets

1904: Australia won by 216 runs

1908: Australia won by 245 runs

1912: England won by seven wickets

1921: Australia won by 119 runs

1925: Australia won by 11 runs

1929: England won by 12 runs

1933: England won by 338 runs

1937: Australia won by 148 runs

1947: Draw

1951: Australia won by 274 runs

1955: England won by five wickets

1959: Australia won by 10 wickets

1963: Draw

1966: Australia won by innings and nine runs

1971: Draw

1975: Australia won by 163 runs

1979: England won by 205 runs

1982: Australia won by eight wickets

1986: Draw

1991: Draw

1995: England won by 106 runs

1998: Australia won by 205 runs

2002: Australia won by innings and 51 runs

2006: Australia won by six wickets

2010: England won by an innings and 71 runs

2013: Australia won by 218 runs