- Test no. 1159 | 1990/91 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 26,27,28,29,30 December 1990 (5-day match)
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GA Gooch* | lbw b Alderman | 20 | 39 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 60.60 | |
| MA Atherton | c Boon b Reid | 0 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| W Larkins | c †Healy b Reid | 64 | 218 | 145 | 5 | 0 | 44.13 | |
| RA Smith | c †Healy b Hughes | 30 | 121 | 86 | 3 | 0 | 34.88 | |
| DI Gower | c & b Reid | 100 | 254 | 170 | 8 | 0 | 58.82 | |
| AJ Stewart | c †Healy b Reid | 79 | 279 | 211 | 4 | 0 | 37.44 | |
| RC Russell† | c †Healy b Hughes | 15 | 69 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 27.27 | |
| PAJ DeFreitas | c †Healy b Reid | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| ARC Fraser | c Jones b Alderman | 24 | 69 | 55 | 3 | 0 | 43.63 | |
| DE Malcolm | c Taylor b Reid | 6 | 32 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 31.57 | |
| PCR Tufnell | not out | 0 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, nb 9) | 11 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 131.4 overs; 561 mins) | 352 | (2.67 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-12 (Atherton), 2-30 (Gooch), 3-109 (Smith), 4-152 (Larkins), 5-274 (Gower), 6-303 (Russell), 7-307 (DeFreitas), 8-324 (Stewart), 9-344 (Malcolm), 10-352 (Fraser) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| TM Alderman | 30.4 | 7 | 86 | 2 | 2.80 | (2nb) | ||
| BA Reid | 39 | 8 | 97 | 6 | 2.48 | (1nb) | ||
| MG Hughes | 29 | 7 | 83 | 2 | 2.86 | (6nb) | ||
| GRJ Matthews | 27 | 8 | 65 | 0 | 2.40 | |||
| SR Waugh | 6 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 3.16 |
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GR Marsh | c †Russell b DeFreitas | 36 | 85 | 62 | 5 | 0 | 58.06 | |
| MA Taylor | c †Russell b DeFreitas | 61 | 256 | 177 | 4 | 0 | 34.46 | |
| DC Boon | c †Russell b Malcolm | 28 | 119 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 34.14 | |
| AR Border* | c †Russell b Fraser | 62 | 239 | 164 | 5 | 0 | 37.80 | |
| DM Jones | c †Russell b Fraser | 44 | 86 | 57 | 6 | 0 | 77.19 | |
| SR Waugh | b Fraser | 19 | 61 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 40.42 | |
| GRJ Matthews | lbw b Fraser | 12 | 79 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| IA Healy† | c †Russell b Fraser | 5 | 21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| MG Hughes | lbw b Malcolm | 4 | 46 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 26.66 | |
| TM Alderman | b Fraser | 0 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| BA Reid | not out | 3 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 18.75 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 12, nb 16) | 32 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 112.5 overs; 514 mins) | 306 | (2.71 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-63 (Marsh), 2-133 (Boon), 3-149 (Taylor), 4-224 (Jones), 5-264 (Waugh), 6-281 (Border), 7-289 (Healy), 8-298 (Matthews), 9-302 (Alderman), 10-306 (Hughes) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DE Malcolm | 25.5 | 4 | 74 | 2 | 2.86 | (6nb) | ||
| ARC Fraser | 39 | 10 | 82 | 6 | 2.10 | (9nb) | ||
| PCR Tufnell | 21 | 5 | 62 | 0 | 2.95 | (1nb) | ||
| PAJ DeFreitas | 25 | 5 | 69 | 2 | 2.76 | |||
| MA Atherton | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1.50 |
| England 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GA Gooch* | c Alderman b Reid | 58 | 147 | 116 | 9 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| MA Atherton | c †Healy b Reid | 4 | 26 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| W Larkins | c †Healy b Reid | 54 | 232 | 171 | 6 | 0 | 31.57 | |
| RA Smith | c Taylor b Reid | 8 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 53.33 | |
| DI Gower | c Border b Matthews | 0 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AJ Stewart | c Marsh b Reid | 8 | 70 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 13.33 | |
| RC Russell† | c Jones b Matthews | 1 | 46 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 3.03 | |
| PAJ DeFreitas | lbw b Reid | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| ARC Fraser | c Taylor b Reid | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DE Malcolm | lbw b Matthews | 1 | 21 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 7.14 | |
| PCR Tufnell | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (b 7, lb 3, nb 6) | 16 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 73 overs; 294 mins) | 150 | (2.05 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-17 (Atherton), 2-103 (Gooch), 3-115 (Smith), 4-122 (Gower), 5-147 (Stewart), 6-148 (Larkins), 7-148 (DeFreitas), 8-148 (Fraser), 9-150 (Russell), 10-150 (Malcolm) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| TM Alderman | 10 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 1.90 | (4nb) | ||
| BA Reid | 22 | 12 | 51 | 7 | 2.31 | (1nb) | ||
| MG Hughes | 9 | 4 | 26 | 0 | 2.88 | (1nb) | ||
| GRJ Matthews | 25 | 9 | 40 | 3 | 1.60 | |||
| SR Waugh | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0.57 |
| Australia 2nd innings (target: 197 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GR Marsh | not out | 79 | 363 | 257 | 7 | 0 | 30.73 | |
| MA Taylor | c Atherton b Malcolm | 5 | 34 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 20.83 | |
| IA Healy† | c Atherton b Fraser | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| DC Boon | not out | 94 | 321 | 234 | 8 | 0 | 40.17 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 12, nb 2) | 18 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 86 overs) | 197 | (2.29 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat AR Border*, DM Jones, SR Waugh, GRJ Matthews, MG Hughes, TM Alderman, BA Reid |
| Fall of wickets1-9 (Taylor), 2-10 (Healy) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DE Malcolm | 23 | 7 | 52 | 1 | 2.26 | (1nb) | ||
| ARC Fraser | 20 | 4 | 33 | 1 | 1.65 | |||
| PCR Tufnell | 24 | 12 | 36 | 0 | 1.50 | (1nb) | ||
| PAJ DeFreitas | 16 | 3 | 46 | 0 | 2.87 | |||
| MA Atherton | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4.66 |
| 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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Test debut
PCR Tufnell
(England) Player of the match BA Reid (Australia) |
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Umpires
AR Crafter and PJ McConnell |
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Close of play 26 Dec day 1 - England 1st innings 239/4 (DI Gower 73*, AJ Stewart 42*) 27 Dec day 2 - Australia 1st innings 109/1 (MA Taylor 42*, DC Boon 18*) 28 Dec day 3 - Australia 1st innings 306 29 Dec day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 28/2 (GR Marsh 11*, DC Boon 8*) 30 Dec day 5 - Australia 2nd innings 197/2 (86 ov) - end of match |
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