NatWest Challenge - 3rd match
Australia won by 8 wickets (with 91 balls remaining)
| England innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ME Trescothick | c Kasprowicz b Lee | 0 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AJ Strauss | c †Gilchrist b Kasprowicz | 36 | 81 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 72.00 | |
| MP Vaughan* | run out (Ponting) | 15 | 38 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| KP Pietersen | b Gillespie | 74 | 133 | 84 | 7 | 2 | 88.09 | |
| A Flintoff | c †Gilchrist b Kasprowicz | 5 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| PD Collingwood | c Symonds b Gillespie | 9 | 17 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| GO Jones† | c Kasprowicz b Gillespie | 1 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9.09 | |
| VS Solanki | not out | 53 | 91 | 63 | 5 | 0 | 84.12 | |
| AF Giles | not out | 25 | 26 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 131.57 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 7, nb 2) | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets; 50 overs; 218 mins) | 228 | (4.56 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SJ Harmison, D Gough |
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Trescothick, 2.6 ov), 2-44 (Vaughan, 12.5 ov), 3-61 (Strauss, 16.3 ov), 4-74 (Flintoff, 20.6 ov), 5-87 (Collingwood, 25.2 ov), 6-93 (GO Jones, 27.5 ov), 7-186 (Pietersen, 43.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Lee | 10 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 4.60 | (1nb, 3w) | ||
| GD McGrath | 10 | 4 | 40 | 0 | 4.00 | |||
| MS Kasprowicz | 10 | 1 | 46 | 2 | 4.60 | (2w) | ||
| JN Gillespie | 10 | 1 | 44 | 3 | 4.40 | (1nb) | ||
| A Symonds | 6 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 4.33 | |||
| MJ Clarke | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 6.25 | (2w) |
| Australia innings (target: 229 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | not out | 121 | 160 | 101 | 17 | 2 | 119.80 | |
| ML Hayden | c †GO Jones b Gough | 31 | 68 | 47 | 5 | 0 | 65.95 | |
| RT Ponting* | st †GO Jones b Giles | 43 | 59 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 97.72 | |
| DR Martyn | not out | 24 | 27 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 114.28 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 4, nb 4) | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets; 34.5 overs; 160 mins) | 229 | (6.57 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat A Symonds, MJ Clarke, MEK Hussey, B Lee, JN Gillespie, MS Kasprowicz, SM Katich |
| Fall of wickets1-91 (Hayden, 15.3 ov), 2-185 (Ponting, 28.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SJ Harmison | 9.5 | 0 | 81 | 0 | 8.23 | (2nb, 4w) | ||
| D Gough | 4 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 9.25 | (2nb) | ||
| A Flintoff | 9 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 3.77 | |||
| AF Giles | 10 | 0 | 64 | 1 | 6.40 | |||
| PD Collingwood | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 5.50 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to field Series Australia won the 3-match series 2-1 |
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Australia replacement
SM Katich for GD McGrath (Australia innings, 0.0 ov) England replacement VS Solanki for SP Jones (England innings, 27.5 ov) Player of the match AC Gilchrist (Australia) Player of the series RT Ponting (Australia) |
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Umpires
RE Koertzen (South Africa) and DR Shepherd TV umpire JW Lloyds Match referee RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka) |
| Match notes |
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Jul 12, 2005 Adam Gilchrist celebrates his 11th one-day hundred © Getty Images |
Jul 12, 2005 Matthew Hayden sweeps © Getty Images |
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