| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AJ Strauss | c Martyn b Clark | 14 | 63 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 31.81 | |
| AN Cook | c †Gilchrist b Clark | 27 | 90 | 57 | 2 | 0 | 47.36 | |
| IR Bell | c & b Lee | 60 | 189 | 148 | 6 | 0 | 40.54 | |
| PD Collingwood | c †Gilchrist b Clark | 206 | 515 | 392 | 16 | 0 | 52.55 | |
| KP Pietersen | run out (Ponting) | 158 | 377 | 257 | 15 | 1 | 61.47 | |
| A Flintoff* | not out | 38 | 101 | 67 | 2 | 1 | 56.71 | |
| GO Jones† | c Martyn b Warne | 1 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| AF Giles | not out | 27 | 63 | 44 | 4 | 0 | 61.36 | |
| Extras | (lb 10, w 2, nb 8) | 20 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets dec; 168 overs; 707 mins) | 551 | (3.27 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MJ Hoggard, SJ Harmison, JM Anderson |
| Fall of wickets1-32 (Strauss, 14.3 ov), 2-45 (Cook, 20.5 ov), 3-158 (Bell, 61.4 ov), 4-468 (Collingwood, 145.5 ov), 5-489 (Pietersen, 151.6 ov), 6-491 (Jones, 154.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Lee | 34 | 1 | 139 | 1 | 4.08 | (8nb, 1w) | ||
| GD McGrath | 30 | 5 | 107 | 0 | 3.56 | |||
| SR Clark | 34 | 6 | 75 | 3 | 2.20 | |||
| SK Warne | 53 | 9 | 167 | 1 | 3.15 | (1w) | ||
| MJ Clarke | 17 | 2 | 53 | 0 | 3.11 |
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JL Langer | c Pietersen b Flintoff | 4 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| ML Hayden | c †Jones b Hoggard | 12 | 57 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| RT Ponting* | c †Jones b Hoggard | 142 | 353 | 245 | 12 | 0 | 57.95 | |
| DR Martyn | c Bell b Hoggard | 11 | 42 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| MEK Hussey | b Hoggard | 91 | 298 | 212 | 7 | 1 | 42.92 | |
| MJ Clarke | c Giles b Hoggard | 124 | 318 | 224 | 10 | 0 | 55.35 | |
| AC Gilchrist† | c Bell b Giles | 64 | 111 | 79 | 8 | 0 | 81.01 | |
| SK Warne | lbw b Hoggard | 43 | 157 | 108 | 4 | 0 | 39.81 | |
| B Lee | not out | 7 | 47 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 21.21 | |
| SR Clark | b Hoggard | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GD McGrath | c †Jones b Anderson | 1 | 25 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 4.76 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 2, w 1, nb 7) | 14 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 165.3 overs; 718 mins) | 513 | (3.09 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| MJ Hoggard | 42 | 6 | 109 | 7 | 2.59 | |||
| A Flintoff | 26 | 5 | 82 | 1 | 3.15 | (5nb) | ||
| SJ Harmison | 25 | 5 | 96 | 0 | 3.84 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| JM Anderson | 21.3 | 3 | 85 | 1 | 3.95 | |||
| AF Giles | 42 | 7 | 103 | 1 | 2.45 | |||
| KP Pietersen | 9 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 3.55 |
| England 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AJ Strauss | c Hussey b Warne | 34 | 125 | 79 | 3 | 0 | 43.03 | |
| AN Cook | c †Gilchrist b Clark | 9 | 48 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 25.71 | |
| IR Bell | run out (Clarke/Warne) | 26 | 85 | 73 | 2 | 0 | 35.61 | |
| PD Collingwood | not out | 22 | 198 | 119 | 2 | 0 | 18.48 | |
| KP Pietersen | b Warne | 2 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| A Flintoff* | c †Gilchrist b Lee | 2 | 25 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 8.33 | |
| GO Jones† | c Hayden b Lee | 10 | 41 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 41.66 | |
| AF Giles | c Hayden b Warne | 0 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MJ Hoggard | b Warne | 4 | 27 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| SJ Harmison | lbw b McGrath | 8 | 25 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 38.09 | |
| JM Anderson | lbw b McGrath | 1 | 41 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 3.57 | |
| Extras | (b 3, lb 5, w 1, nb 2) | 11 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 73 overs; 324 mins) | 129 | (1.76 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Lee | 18 | 3 | 35 | 2 | 1.94 | (2nb) | ||
| GD McGrath | 10 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 1.50 | (1w) | ||
| SK Warne | 32 | 12 | 49 | 4 | 1.53 | |||
| SR Clark | 13 | 4 | 22 | 1 | 1.69 |
| Australia 2nd innings (target: 168 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JL Langer | c Bell b Hoggard | 7 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| ML Hayden | c Collingwood b Flintoff | 18 | 31 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 105.88 | |
| RT Ponting* | c Strauss b Giles | 49 | 95 | 65 | 5 | 0 | 75.38 | |
| MEK Hussey | not out | 61 | 129 | 66 | 5 | 0 | 92.42 | |
| DR Martyn | c Strauss b Flintoff | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 125.00 | |
| MJ Clarke | not out | 21 | 47 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 53.84 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 2, w 1, nb 2) | 7 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 32.5 overs; 161 mins) | 168 | (5.11 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat AC Gilchrist†, SK Warne, B Lee, SR Clark, GD McGrath |
| Fall of wickets1-14 (Langer, 2.2 ov), 2-33 (Hayden, 5.4 ov), 3-116 (Ponting, 21.4 ov), 4-121 (Martyn, 22.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| MJ Hoggard | 4 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 7.25 | |||
| A Flintoff | 9 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 4.88 | (2nb) | ||
| AF Giles | 10 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 4.60 | |||
| SJ Harmison | 4 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 3.75 | (1w) | ||
| JM Anderson | 3.5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 6.00 | |||
| KP Pietersen | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3.50 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to bat Series Australia led the 5-match series 2-0 |
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Player of the match
RT Ponting (Australia) |
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Umpires
SA Bucknor (West Indies) and RE Koertzen (South Africa) TV umpire SJ Davis Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire AD Willoughby |
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Close of play 1 Dec day 1 - England 1st innings 266/3 (PD Collingwood 98*, KP Pietersen 60*, 90 ov) 2 Dec day 2 - Australia 1st innings 28/1 (ML Hayden 12*, RT Ponting 11*, 9 ov) 3 Dec day 3 - Australia 1st innings 312/5 (MJ Clarke 30*, AC Gilchrist 13*, 97 ov) 4 Dec day 4 - England 2nd innings 59/1 (AJ Strauss 31*, IR Bell 18*, 19 ov) 5 Dec day 5 - Australia 2nd innings 168/4 (32.5 ov) - end of match |
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