England won the First Test at Old Trafford by four wickets. "Wisden" called it a "remarkable match" and described Scott's innings of 47 in the second innings as "capital batting". This was the closest Australia came to beating England in the series and "Wisden" said "they made a splendid fight of it". In the Second Test at Lord's, Australia had two low totals and were well beaten, "Wisden" remarking that "the Australians thus suffered a most crushing and decisive defeat by an innings and 106 runs". "Wisden" commented on the poor form of the Australians in the third Test which meant "England was left with another decisive victory, by an innings and 217 runs". W. G. Grace made his highest Test score of 170 after he was dropped by Scott when he had scored only six runs. Scott made only 110 runs in his six Test innings at 18.33 including his highest score of 47 at Old Trafford. But Australia's batting was poor with only one half-century scored for the team in the series.