The Australian Supremacy 3

By popular demand, the latest and the last instalment in this wonderful series. Since I still haven't figured out how to do proper tables on my blog, you'll have to put up with the sorry effort below. What this lays out, for each Ashes series since 1989, are the fortunes of Australia and England in, successively, the first, second, third etc Tests, with the first column on the left giving the first Test result, the second the second, and so (logically) on, and 1 standing for an Australian win, 0 for an England win, and d for a drawn game:

1989 1 1 d 1 1 d
1990 1 1 d d 1
1993 1 1 d 1 1 0
1994 1 1 d 0 1
1997 0 d 1 1 1 0
1998 d 1 1 0 1
2001 1 1 1 0 1
2002 1 1 1 1 0
2005 1 0 d 0 d
2006 1 1 1 1 1

Totals now follow for each Test with Australia's given first, then England's, then the draws in brackets:

1. 8-1-(1)
2. 8-1-(1)
3. 5-0-(5)
4. 5-4-(1)
5. 8-1-(1)
6. 0-2-(1)

Here, finally, are the tallies for the different grounds, 1989-2007, with Australia's victories given first, then England's, and the draws in brackets:

2-2-(1) Birmingham
3-1-(0) Leeds
4-0-(1) Lord's
3-0-(1) Manchester
3-1-(1) Nottingham
1-2-(2) The Oval

3-1-(1) Adelaide
4-0-(1) Brisbane
4-1-(0) Melbourne
5-0-(0) Perth
2-1-(2) Sydney

Some obvious conclusions from these data. If England want to prosper, future series between the two countries should be arranged in such a way that only the fourth and the sixth Tests are played; in the first, second, third and fifth Tests the Poms do not fare well. And, if possible, all games should be played at The Oval, Edgbaston and Sydney. Lord's and the WACA should especially be avoided.

[The first instalment is here and the second here.]