NatWest Challenge - 1st match
England won by 9 wickets (with 24 balls remaining)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | c †GO Jones b Harmison | 42 | 68 | 51 | 5 | 2 | 82.35 | |
| ML Hayden | c Pietersen b Flintoff | 17 | 75 | 47 | 3 | 0 | 36.17 | |
| RT Ponting* | c Pietersen b Collingwood | 14 | 49 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 46.66 | |
| DR Martyn | c †GO Jones b Collingwood | 43 | 104 | 71 | 4 | 0 | 60.56 | |
| A Symonds | c Trescothick b Collingwood | 6 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| MJ Clarke | b Collingwood | 2 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| MEK Hussey | not out | 46 | 74 | 52 | 4 | 1 | 88.46 | |
| SR Watson | c Strauss b Harmison | 3 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 23.07 | |
| B Lee | not out | 15 | 19 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 78.94 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 12, w 15, nb 2) | 31 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets; 50 overs; 218 mins) | 219 | (4.38 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat JN Gillespie, GD McGrath |
| Fall of wickets1-62 (Gilchrist, 15.3 ov), 2-68 (Hayden, 16.3 ov), 3-107 (Ponting, 27.2 ov), 4-116 (Symonds, 29.5 ov), 5-120 (Clarke, 31.3 ov), 6-159 (Martyn, 41.1 ov), 7-168 (Watson, 44.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D Gough | 10 | 1 | 50 | 0 | 5.00 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| SP Jones | 10 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 2.80 | (2w) | ||
| SJ Harmison | 10 | 0 | 39 | 2 | 3.90 | (3w) | ||
| A Flintoff | 10 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 5.40 | (1nb, 5w) | ||
| PD Collingwood | 10 | 0 | 34 | 4 | 3.40 | (2w) |
| England innings (target: 220 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ME Trescothick | not out | 104 | 197 | 134 | 8 | 1 | 77.61 | |
| AJ Strauss | c †Gilchrist b Hogg | 41 | 110 | 84 | 2 | 0 | 48.80 | |
| MP Vaughan* | not out | 59 | 86 | 65 | 7 | 0 | 90.76 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 2, w 3, nb 11) | 17 | ||||||
| Total | (1 wicket; 46 overs; 197 mins) | 221 | (4.80 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat KP Pietersen, A Flintoff, PD Collingwood, GO Jones†, AF Giles, VS Solanki, D Gough, SJ Harmison |
| Fall of wickets1-101 (Strauss, 24.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Lee | 9 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 5.33 | (7nb) | ||
| GD McGrath | 8 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 3.25 | (1w) | ||
| JN Gillespie | 10 | 0 | 66 | 0 | 6.60 | (1w) | ||
| SR Watson | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 5.33 | (1w) | ||
| A Symonds | 10 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 3.20 | |||
| GB Hogg | 6 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 5.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to field Series England led the 3-match series 1-0 |
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Australia replacement
GB Hogg for ML Hayden (England innings, 22.0 ov) England replacement VS Solanki for SP Jones (Australia innings, 31.0 ov) Player of the match ME Trescothick (England) |
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Umpires
MR Benson and RE Koertzen (South Africa) TV umpire NJ Llong Match referee RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka) |
| Match notes |
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