The first series since the Bodyline Series was upon us as Australia made their way to England to play what was the 34th conflict of the Ashes. The main casualties of the aforementioned series were Harold Larwood, Bill Voce and Captain Douglas Jardine. After many a behind the scenes meeting at Lord's, it was decided by the MCC that the three players would not play against Australia again and that the use of Bodyline bowling would never again be used.

Wyatt who had played in the previous series was due to be captain, but because of injury was unable to play and Walters stepped in. Australia batted first and newcomer Chipperfield ended the morning session on 99 not out, he was not to add to the score unfortunately and therefore missed out on a debut Test Century. Both McCabe and Ponsford chipped in with half centuries as Australia scored 374 in their first innings. In reply the Trent Bridge crowd saw England struggle to 268 all out, thanks mainly to Sutcliffe and Hendren both scoring 50's. Clarrie Grimmett and O'Reilly took 9 wickets between them as spin dominated. Australia scored 273 runs in their second innings with McCabe again scoring a 50. With only 10 minutes left of play Australia won the match thanks mainly to O'Reilly taking 7 for 54. England crumbled to 141 on what turned out to be a spinners paradise.

Lord's was the venue for the second Test and the return of first choice captain Wyatt. Batting first England scored 440, with both Ames and Leyland scoring centuries. Bert Oldfield became the first wicket keeper to take 100 wickets in Test history. Rain fell overnight and made the wicket a veritable paradise for Hedley Verity, who proceeded to take 7 wickets in the first innings and 8 in the second, ending with match figures of 15 - 104. England won the match by an innings and 38 runs.

With the series level at 1 rubber each, the 3rd and 4th match both ended as draws. At Old Trafford, England scored a mammoth 627 runs with the loss of 9 wickets, Leyland and Hendren once again scoring big centuries. Along with the two centuries 5 other players also scored half centuries in the innings, O'Reilly once again took 7 wickets but to no avail. Stan McCabe led the Australian fightback with a superb 137, however he didn't stop the follow on and Australia ended their 2nd innings at 1 for 66, match drawn. England struggled at Headingley as Bradman and Ponsford took control and in reply to England's 200 all out they guided Australia to a 384 run lead. The pair added 388 for the 4th wicket and in doing so created a record for Ashes matches. It was also Bradman's second successive triple century at Headingley (304), Ponsford for the record scored 181 !! The only thing to save England was rain on the final days play and they ended the match at 6 for 229, still short of making Australia bat again.

The Oval staged the final and most important match of the series, as it would decide on the ownership of the famous urn. Both Bradman (244) and Ponsford (266) broke all Test records in the first innings with a partnership of 451 for the second wicket. Australia scored 701 and basically played England out of the Test and Series. Although England failed to meet the cut off point, Woodfull decided to bat again and left England to get 708 runs for the win. Clarrie Grimmett took 5 wickets in the final innings of the series and the visitors eventually won the match by 562 runs.

Bradman ended the series scoring 758 runs at 94.75

Ponsford ended the series scoring 569 runs at 94.83

O'Reilly, Verity and Grimmett all took more than 20 wickets each in the series.