- Test no. 1346 | 1996/97 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 26,27,28 December 1996 (5-day match)
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Taylor* | b Ambrose | 7 | 52 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 17.50 | |
| ML Hayden | c Hooper b Ambrose | 5 | 27 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 26.31 | |
| JL Langer | run out (Adams) | 12 | 42 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 60.00 | |
| ME Waugh | lbw b Ambrose | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SR Waugh | c †Murray b Bishop | 58 | 163 | 131 | 4 | 0 | 44.27 | |
| GS Blewett | run out (sub [AFG Griffith]) | 62 | 223 | 154 | 4 | 0 | 40.25 | |
| IA Healy† | c Hooper b Ambrose | 36 | 61 | 47 | 4 | 0 | 76.59 | |
| PR Reiffel | c Samuels b Benjamin | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SK Warne | c Campbell b Bishop | 10 | 38 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 35.71 | |
| JN Gillespie | not out | 4 | 39 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 17.39 | |
| GD McGrath | c Hooper b Ambrose | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 8, nb 17) | 25 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 74.5 overs; 334 mins) | 219 | (2.92 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-5 (Hayden), 2-26 (Taylor), 3-26 (ME Waugh), 4-27 (Langer), 5-129 (SR Waugh), 6-195 (Healy), 7-200 (Reiffel), 8-203 (Blewett), 9-217 (Warne), 10-219 (McGrath) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CEL Ambrose | 24.5 | 7 | 55 | 5 | 2.21 | (12nb) | ||
| IR Bishop | 11 | 1 | 31 | 2 | 2.81 | (2nb) | ||
| KCG Benjamin | 19 | 2 | 64 | 1 | 3.36 | (2nb) | ||
| CA Walsh | 14 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 3.07 | (5nb) | ||
| JC Adams | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4.00 | |||
| CL Hooper | 5 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 2.80 |
| West Indies 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SL Campbell | lbw b McGrath | 7 | 27 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 22.58 | |
| RG Samuels | c Taylor b Warne | 17 | 141 | 82 | 2 | 0 | 20.73 | |
| S Chanderpaul | c & b McGrath | 58 | 209 | 147 | 4 | 0 | 39.45 | |
| BC Lara | c Warne b McGrath | 2 | 26 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 | |
| CL Hooper | run out (McGrath) | 7 | 22 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 28.00 | |
| JC Adams | not out | 74 | 249 | 188 | 5 | 0 | 39.36 | |
| JR Murray† | c Reiffel b McGrath | 53 | 116 | 117 | 3 | 0 | 45.29 | |
| IR Bishop | lbw b McGrath | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| CEL Ambrose | b Warne | 8 | 29 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 42.10 | |
| KCG Benjamin | b Reiffel | 11 | 14 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 84.61 | |
| CA Walsh* | c ME Waugh b Warne | 4 | 32 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 23.52 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 7, nb 3) | 14 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 109.1 overs; 441 mins) | 255 | (2.33 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-12 (Campbell), 2-62 (Samuels), 3-71 (Lara), 4-86 (Hooper), 5-107 (Chanderpaul), 6-197 (Murray), 7-197 (Bishop), 8-215 (Ambrose), 9-230 (Benjamin), 10-255 (Walsh) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GD McGrath | 30 | 11 | 50 | 5 | 1.66 | |||
| PR Reiffel | 29 | 8 | 76 | 1 | 2.62 | (5nb) | ||
| SK Warne | 28.1 | 3 | 72 | 3 | 2.55 | |||
| JN Gillespie | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1.66 | |||
| GS Blewett | 9 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 2.11 | |||
| SR Waugh | 10 | 5 | 22 | 0 | 2.20 |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ML Hayden | b Ambrose | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MA Taylor* | c Hooper b Walsh | 10 | 78 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 20.83 | |
| JL Langer | c Hooper b Ambrose | 0 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| ME Waugh | lbw b Walsh | 19 | 81 | 54 | 1 | 0 | 35.18 | |
| SR Waugh | b Benjamin | 37 | 145 | 87 | 2 | 0 | 42.52 | |
| GS Blewett | c †Murray b Walsh | 7 | 25 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 41.17 | |
| IA Healy† | b Benjamin | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PR Reiffel | lbw b Benjamin | 8 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 72.72 | |
| SK Warne | c Adams b Ambrose | 18 | 36 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 64.28 | |
| JN Gillespie | lbw b Ambrose | 2 | 18 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 10.00 | |
| GD McGrath | not out | 5 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 1, nb 11) | 16 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 45.5 overs; 224 mins) | 122 | (2.66 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-0 (Hayden), 2-3 (Langer), 3-28 (Taylor), 4-47 (ME Waugh), 5-64 (Blewett), 6-65 (Healy), 7-76 (Reiffel), 8-107 (Warne), 9-113 (Gillespie), 10-122 (SR Waugh) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CEL Ambrose | 12 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 1.41 | (5nb) | ||
| IR Bishop | 10 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 2.60 | (3nb, 1w) | ||
| KCG Benjamin | 12.5 | 5 | 34 | 3 | 2.64 | (2nb) | ||
| CA Walsh | 11 | 4 | 41 | 3 | 3.72 | (5nb) |
| West Indies 2nd innings (target: 87 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SL Campbell | c Hayden b McGrath | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RG Samuels | lbw b McGrath | 13 | 30 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 108.33 | |
| S Chanderpaul | b Reiffel | 40 | 97 | 82 | 3 | 0 | 48.78 | |
| BC Lara | c Hayden b McGrath | 2 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| CL Hooper | not out | 27 | 57 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| JC Adams | not out | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (nb 4) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 23.5 overs) | 87 | (3.65 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat JR Murray†, IR Bishop, CEL Ambrose, KCG Benjamin, CA Walsh* |
| Fall of wickets1-0 (Campbell), 2-25 (Samuels), 3-32 (Lara), 4-82 (Chanderpaul) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GD McGrath | 9 | 1 | 41 | 3 | 4.55 | |||
| PR Reiffel | 9 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 1.77 | (4nb) | ||
| SK Warne | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 5.66 | |||
| GS Blewett | 2.5 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4.58 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series Australia led the 5-match series 2-1 |
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Player of the match
CEL Ambrose (West Indies) |
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Umpires
PD Parker and S Venkataraghavan (India) TV umpire WP Sheahan Match referee PL van der Merwe (South Africa) |
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Close of play 26 Dec day 1 - West Indies 1st innings 29/1 (RG Samuels 10*, S Chanderpaul 11*) 27 Dec day 2 - West Indies 1st innings 233/9 (JC Adams 54*, CA Walsh 2*) 28 Dec day 3 - West Indies 2nd innings 87/4 (23.5 ov) - end of match |
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Glenn McGrath avoids a Benjamin bouncer © Action Photographics |
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Justin Langer is out for a duck, Australia v West Indies, 3rd Test, 1996/97 © Action Photographics |
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