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9th Match,Australia v England, NatWest Series, Statistical Highlights
Rajneesh Gupta - 22 June 2001

  • It was the 1726th ODI in cricket history.

  • It was Australia's 486th and England's 331st match.

  • It was the 70th match between these two sides. The record now reads : Australia 37,England 31,tied one and abandoned one.

  • Umpires David Constant and George Sharp were officiating in their 33rd and 24th match respectively.

  • Robert Croft and Alan Mullally were playing their 50th match. They became 21st and 22nd Englishman to reach this milestone. A total of 232 players have now made 50 or more appearances in shorter version of the game.

  • Glenn McGrath has now taken 28 wickets in 17 matches in England which equals the Shane Warne's record for Australia. Incidentally West Indian Andy Roberts with 26 wickets from 21 games holds the record of most wickets by a visiting player in England.

  • Gilchrist's innings (80) was the highest by an Australian wicketkeeper against England . This obliterated Richard Robinson's 70 at this same ground on June 6,1977.It was also the third highest innings by a wicketkeeper against England in all matches after Sri Lankan Romesh Kaluwitharana's 102* at Colombo SSC on March 27,2001 and West Indian Junior Murray's 86 at this same ground on May 26,1995.

  • Australia won the match with 119 balls to spare. This was the England's third heaviest defeat in terms of balls spared by the opposing side while achieving the winning target. Interestingly all the three instances have come against Australia. The accompanying table lists England's worst such defeats :

    Balls

    Winner

    Total

    Loser

    Total

    Venue

    Date

    188

    Aus

    94-6

    Eng

    93

    Headingley

    18-06-1975

    147

    Aus

    95-4

    Eng

    94

    Melbourne

    07-02-1979

    119

    Aus

    177-2

    Eng

    176

    The Oval

    21-06-2001

    102

    Pak

    84-2

    Eng

    81-9

    Edgbaston

    03-09-1974

    97

    SL

    166-0

    Eng

    165-9

    Colombo (SSC)

    27-03-2001

    88

    SL

    183-2

    Eng

    180

    Moratuwa

    20-03-1993

    84

    WI

    207-4

    Eng

    202-8

    Scarborough

    26-08-1976

    76

    WI

    190-2

    Eng

    189-9

    The Oval

    07-09-1973

    • England has now suffered defeat in 11 consecutive matches. England's last win in an ODI had come in the first match of three match series against Pakistan at Karachi on October 24,2000 while chasing a target of 300 plus. England then lost the remaining two matches on that series, lost all three against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka and then six in a row in this NatWest Series.

    • Australia has now beaten England in seven matches in a row since the Carlton & United World Series Cup match at Adelaide on January 26,1999. It is Australia's best run against England. The previous best winning streak for Australia against England was of five matches from June 6,1981 to January 23,1983. However it is still not a record in Australia-England matches. England had beaten Australia in eight consecutive matches from December 8,1979 to June 4,1981.

    • England bowed out of the series without registering a win despite playing as many as six games. The only other similar instance of England not winning a game in a competition comprising of at least three teams (excluding those played on knock out basis) had come in 1984-85 World Championship of Cricket in Australia when England lost all its three matches.

    • Ricky Ponting was winning his 11th Man of the Match award – his second against England.

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    Players/Umpires David Constant, George Sharp, Robert Croft, Alan Mullally, Glenn McGrath, Andy Roberts, Adam Gilchrist, Romesh Kaluwitharana, Ricky Ponting.
    Grounds Kennington Oval, London
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