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3rd Match, England v Australia, Natwest Series, Statistical Highlights
Rajneesh Gupta - 11 June 2001
- It was the 1721st ODI in cricket history.
- It was England's 327th and Australia's 483rd ODI match.
- It was the 68th match between these two sides. The record now reads :
Australia 35, England 31,tied one and abandoned one.
- Umpires John Hampshire and Ray Julian were officiating in their 20th
and sixth match respectively.
- Karachi born Owais Shah became 163rd player to represent England in
ODIs.
- The two wickets in this match has taken Darren Gough's tally to 58 in
the matches in England - more than any one else. Gough was earlier at
level with 56 wickets with Ian Botham. The accompanying table lists
the leading bowlers on English soil :
Bowler |
Wkts |
For |
Mts |
Balls |
Runs |
Ave |
Best |
SR |
RpO |
5W |
D Gough |
58 |
Eng |
34 |
1948 |
1326 |
22.86 |
5/44 |
33.59 |
4.08 |
1 |
IT Botham |
56 |
Eng |
47 |
2843 |
1824 |
32.57 |
4/45 |
50.77 |
3.85 |
0 |
RGD Willis |
45 |
Eng |
32 |
1949 |
1005 |
22.33 |
4/11 |
43.31 |
3.09 |
0 |
CM Old |
36 |
Eng |
24 |
1411 |
782 |
21.72 |
4/8 |
39.19 |
3.33 |
0 |
AME Roberts |
36 |
WI |
21 |
1297 |
692 |
19.22 |
4/27 |
36.03 |
3.2 |
0 |
RJ Hadlee |
33 |
NZ |
21 |
1377 |
714 |
21.64 |
5/25 |
41.73 |
3.11 |
1 |
MA Holding |
33 |
WI |
19 |
1156 |
568 |
17.21 |
4/33 |
35.03 |
2.95 |
0 |
CC Lewis |
30 |
Eng |
20 |
1153 |
893 |
29.77 |
4/40 |
38.43 |
4.65 |
0 |
- Ricky Ponting (102) scored his first hundred against England and
eighth in his ODI career. His previous highest against England was 75*
at Melbourne on 15-01-1999
- England has now lost seven matches at a trot- it second worst run in
ODIs. It had lost 8 consecutive matches from 25-10-1989 to 23-05-1990.
England also had three other sequences of defeat in seven consecutive
matches .Incidentally the ODI record of most consecutive defeats is
held by Bangladesh who lost 22 matches before registering its maiden
victory against Kenya at Hyderabad on 17-05-1998.
- The defeat was England's fifth in as many matches against Australia
which equalled its worst run against Australia. England had also lost
five consecutive matches against Australia from 06-06-1981 to
23-01-1983
- Ricky Ponting was winning his tenth Man of the Match award – his
second in successive matches.
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