| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MJ Slater | run out (DeFreitas/Gatting) | 3 | 26 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 15.78 | |
| MA Taylor* | lbw b DeFreitas | 9 | 73 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 21.95 | |
| DC Boon | c Hick b Tufnell | 41 | 148 | 100 | 4 | 0 | 41.00 | |
| ME Waugh | c Thorpe b DeFreitas | 71 | 221 | 155 | 3 | 0 | 45.80 | |
| MG Bevan | c Atherton b Gough | 3 | 29 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 13.04 | |
| SR Waugh | not out | 94 | 265 | 191 | 5 | 0 | 49.21 | |
| IA Healy† | c †Rhodes b Tufnell | 17 | 59 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 40.47 | |
| SK Warne | c Hick b Gough | 6 | 27 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 24.00 | |
| TBA May | lbw b Gough | 9 | 51 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 29.03 | |
| CJ McDermott | b Gough | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DW Fleming | c Hick b Malcolm | 16 | 33 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 84.21 | |
| Extras | (lb 7, nb 3) | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 107.3 overs; 471 mins) | 279 | (2.59 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-10 (Slater), 2-39 (Taylor), 3-91 (Boon), 4-100 (Bevan), 5-171 (ME Waugh), 6-208 (Healy), 7-220 (Warne), 8-242 (May), 9-242 (McDermott), 10-279 (Fleming) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DE Malcolm | 28.3 | 4 | 78 | 1 | 2.73 | (1nb) | ||
| PAJ DeFreitas | 23 | 4 | 66 | 2 | 2.86 | (1nb) | ||
| D Gough | 26 | 9 | 60 | 4 | 2.30 | |||
| PCR Tufnell | 28 | 7 | 59 | 2 | 2.10 | (1nb) | ||
| GA Hick | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4.50 |
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Atherton* | lbw b Warne | 44 | 199 | 157 | 4 | 0 | 28.02 | |
| AJ Stewart | c & b Warne | 16 | 51 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 61.53 | |
| GA Hick | c †Healy b McDermott | 23 | 44 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 69.69 | |
| GP Thorpe | c ME Waugh b Warne | 51 | 149 | 116 | 5 | 0 | 43.96 | |
| GA Gooch | c & b McDermott | 15 | 67 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 28.84 | |
| MW Gatting | c SR Waugh b Warne | 9 | 23 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| D Gough | c †Healy b McDermott | 20 | 65 | 52 | 3 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| SJ Rhodes† | c ME Waugh b Warne | 0 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PAJ DeFreitas | st †Healy b Warne | 14 | 24 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 73.68 | |
| DE Malcolm | not out | 11 | 26 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 84.61 | |
| PCR Tufnell | run out (Taylor) | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 7, nb 2) | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 83.4 overs; 339 mins) | 212 | (2.53 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 24 | 6 | 72 | 3 | 3.00 | (2nb) | ||
| DW Fleming | 11 | 5 | 30 | 0 | 2.72 | |||
| ME Waugh | 3 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 3.66 | |||
| SK Warne | 27.4 | 8 | 64 | 6 | 2.31 | |||
| TBA May | 18 | 5 | 28 | 0 | 1.55 |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Taylor* | lbw b Gough | 19 | 81 | 64 | 1 | 0 | 29.68 | |
| MJ Slater | st †Rhodes b Tufnell | 44 | 121 | 74 | 5 | 0 | 59.45 | |
| DC Boon | lbw b DeFreitas | 131 | 378 | 277 | 14 | 0 | 47.29 | |
| ME Waugh | c & b Gough | 29 | 127 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 35.36 | |
| MG Bevan | c sub (JP Crawley) b Tufnell | 35 | 190 | 135 | 1 | 0 | 25.92 | |
| SR Waugh | not out | 26 | 92 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 35.61 | |
| IA Healy† | c Thorpe b Tufnell | 17 | 62 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 44.73 | |
| SK Warne | c DeFreitas b Gough | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| CJ McDermott | not out | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 9, w 1, nb 6) | 17 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets dec; 124 overs; 533 mins) | 320 | (2.58 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat TBA May, DW Fleming |
| Fall of wickets1-61 (Taylor), 2-81 (Slater), 3-157 (ME Waugh), 4-269 (Bevan), 5-275 (Boon), 6-316 (Healy), 7-317 (Warne) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DE Malcolm | 22 | 3 | 86 | 0 | 3.90 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| PAJ DeFreitas | 26 | 2 | 70 | 1 | 2.69 | (2nb) | ||
| PCR Tufnell | 48 | 8 | 90 | 3 | 1.87 | (2nb) | ||
| D Gough | 25 | 6 | 59 | 3 | 2.36 | |||
| GA Hick | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1.66 |
| England 2nd innings (target: 388 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GA Gooch | c †Healy b Fleming | 2 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| MA Atherton* | c †Healy b McDermott | 25 | 73 | 43 | 4 | 0 | 58.13 | |
| GA Hick | b Fleming | 2 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| GP Thorpe | c †Healy b McDermott | 9 | 22 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 45.00 | |
| MW Gatting | c Taylor b McDermott | 25 | 86 | 72 | 2 | 0 | 34.72 | |
| SJ Rhodes† | c ME Waugh b McDermott | 16 | 94 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| AJ Stewart | not out | 8 | 54 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 27.58 | |
| PAJ DeFreitas | lbw b Warne | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| D Gough | c †Healy b Warne | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DE Malcolm | c Boon b Warne | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PCR Tufnell | c †Healy b McDermott | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, nb 3) | 5 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 42.5 overs; 184 mins) | 92 | (2.14 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-3 (Gooch), 2-10 (Hick), 3-23 (Thorpe), 4-43 (Atherton), 5-81 (Gatting), 6-88 (Rhodes), 7-91 (DeFreitas), 8-91 (Gough), 9-91 (Malcolm), 10-92 (Tufnell) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 16.5 | 5 | 42 | 5 | 2.49 | (3nb) | ||
| DW Fleming | 9 | 1 | 24 | 2 | 2.66 | |||
| SK Warne | 13 | 6 | 16 | 3 | 1.23 | |||
| TBA May | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to field Series Australia led the 5-match series 2-0 |
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Player of the match
CJ McDermott (Australia) |
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Umpires
SA Bucknor (West Indies) and SG Randell TV umpire WP Sheahan Match referee JR Reid (New Zealand) |
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Close of play 24 Dec day 1 - Australia 1st innings 220/7 (SR Waugh 61*, 89.5 ov) 25 Dec rest day 26 Dec day 2 - England 1st innings 148/4 (GA Gooch 15*, D Gough 1*, 68 ov) 27 Dec day 3 - Australia 2nd innings 170/3 (DC Boon 64*, MG Bevan 3*, 69 ov) 28 Dec day 4 - England 2nd innings 79/4 (MW Gatting 23*, SJ Rhodes 13*, 30 ov) 29 Dec day 5 - England 2nd innings 92 (42.5 ov) - end of match |
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