1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France

1990 Kangaroos tour
Date	7 October 1990 – 9 December 1990
Manager	Keith Barnes, Les Stokes
Coach(es)	Bob Fulton
Tour captain(s)	Mal Meninga
Top point scorer(s)	Greg Alexander (156)
Top try scorer(s)	Andrew Ettingshausen (15)
Summary	P W D L
Total	18 17 00 01
Test match	05 04 00 01
Opponent	P W D L
Great Britain	3 2 0 1
France	2 2 0 0
Tour chronology
Previous tour	1986
Next tour	1994

The 1990 Kangaroo Tour was the seventeenth Kangaroo Tour, where the Australian national rugby league team (known as the XXXX Kangaroos due to sponsorship reasons) travelled to Europe and played eighteen matches against British and French club and representative rugby league teams, in addition to three Test matches against Great Britain and two Tests against the French. It followed the tour of 1986 and the next was staged in 1994.

This series was the closest the British team came to reclaiming The Ashes since last winning in Australia in 1970. Great Britain won the first Test at Wembley Stadium and in the second Test at Old Trafford in Manchester the match was tied at 10-all until the final minutes when Australia scored a late try to win the game. Australia then went on to easily win the third and deciding Test and retain The Ashes. Australia won both Test series against Great Britain and France, suffering one loss (against Great Britain in the first Test), and remaining undefeated in tour matches against British clubs in a streak stretching back to midway through the 1978 tour.

The 17th Kangaroo tour was televised back to Australia on the Ten Network with commentary provided by Graeme Hughes, David Morrow and sideline reporter Tony Durkin. Also joining the commentary team at various stages, including the Ashes Tests, were then Manly-Warringah coach and former New Zealand national rugby league team and Wigan coach Graham Lowe, and the captain of 1986 Kangaroos, Wally Lewis. The Channel 10 coverage was sponsored by Just Jeans. The ABC televised the tests against France with former Wests Magpies winger and captain Warren Boland providing commentary. Various off-duty players including Mal Meninga, Benny Elias, Mark Geyer, Gary Belcher, Andrew Ettingshausen would also join the Ch.10 team in England as guest commentators or sideline reporters (with unrestricted access to coach Bob Fulton's tactics), while Allan Langer co-called the 2nd French test, the last game on the tour, with Boland on the ABC.