- Test no. 1428 | 1998/99 season
- Played at Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
- 20,21,22,23,24 November 1998 (5-day match)
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Taylor* | c Hussain b Cork | 46 | 191 | 135 | 6 | 0 | 34.07 | |
| MJ Slater | c Butcher b Mullally | 16 | 67 | 40 | 2 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| JL Langer | lbw b Gough | 8 | 55 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 18.60 | |
| ME Waugh | c †Stewart b Mullally | 31 | 65 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 62.00 | |
| SR Waugh | c †Stewart b Mullally | 112 | 330 | 232 | 13 | 0 | 48.27 | |
| RT Ponting | c Butcher b Cork | 21 | 94 | 61 | 1 | 0 | 34.42 | |
| IA Healy† | c Mullally b Fraser | 134 | 303 | 229 | 14 | 0 | 58.51 | |
| MS Kasprowicz | c †Stewart b Mullally | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DW Fleming | not out | 71 | 133 | 107 | 11 | 0 | 66.35 | |
| SCG MacGill | c †Stewart b Mullally | 20 | 30 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| GD McGrath | c Atherton b Croft | 5 | 35 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 20.83 | |
| Extras | (lb 14, w 1, nb 6) | 21 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 158 overs; 657 mins) | 485 | (3.06 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D Gough | 34 | 4 | 135 | 1 | 3.97 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| DG Cork | 31 | 6 | 98 | 2 | 3.16 | (1nb) | ||
| AD Mullally | 40 | 10 | 105 | 5 | 2.62 | (3nb) | ||
| RDB Croft | 23 | 6 | 55 | 1 | 2.39 | (1nb) | ||
| ARC Fraser | 28 | 7 | 76 | 1 | 2.71 | |||
| MR Ramprakash | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1.00 |
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Butcher | c & b ME Waugh | 116 | 278 | 236 | 16 | 0 | 49.15 | |
| MA Atherton | c ME Waugh b McGrath | 0 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| N Hussain | c †Healy b Kasprowicz | 59 | 141 | 99 | 10 | 0 | 59.59 | |
| AJ Stewart*† | c Kasprowicz b MacGill | 8 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 88.88 | |
| GP Thorpe | c Langer b McGrath | 77 | 231 | 168 | 7 | 0 | 45.83 | |
| MR Ramprakash | not out | 69 | 234 | 166 | 6 | 0 | 41.56 | |
| DG Cork | c MacGill b McGrath | 0 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RDB Croft | b Kasprowicz | 23 | 51 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 47.91 | |
| D Gough | lbw b McGrath | 0 | 24 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AD Mullally | c Kasprowicz b McGrath | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| ARC Fraser | c ME Waugh b McGrath | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 9, nb 12) | 22 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 128.2 overs; 513 mins) | 375 | (2.92 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GD McGrath | 34.2 | 11 | 85 | 6 | 2.47 | (3nb) | ||
| DW Fleming | 27 | 5 | 83 | 0 | 3.07 | |||
| MS Kasprowicz | 29 | 7 | 82 | 2 | 2.82 | (6nb) | ||
| SCG MacGill | 24 | 4 | 70 | 1 | 2.91 | (2nb) | ||
| SR Waugh | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 5.66 | |||
| RT Ponting | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3.33 | |||
| ME Waugh | 8 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 2.25 | (1nb) |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MJ Slater | c & b Fraser | 113 | 190 | 139 | 13 | 1 | 81.29 | |
| MA Taylor* | b Cork | 0 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JL Langer | c Mullally b Croft | 74 | 202 | 149 | 8 | 0 | 49.66 | |
| ME Waugh | not out | 27 | 76 | 54 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| SR Waugh | not out | 16 | 51 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 51.61 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 1, nb 5) | 7 | ||||||
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| Total | (3 wickets dec; 62 overs; 267 mins) | 237 | (3.82 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RT Ponting, IA Healy†, MS Kasprowicz, DW Fleming, SCG MacGill, GD McGrath |
| Fall of wickets1-20 (Taylor, 3.2 ov), 2-182 (Slater, 45.3 ov), 3-199 (Langer, 50.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D Gough | 6 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 8.33 | (1nb) | ||
| DG Cork | 5 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 3.60 | |||
| AD Mullally | 14 | 4 | 38 | 0 | 2.71 | (2nb) | ||
| ARC Fraser | 15 | 1 | 52 | 1 | 3.46 | (2nb) | ||
| RDB Croft | 20 | 2 | 71 | 1 | 3.55 | |||
| MR Ramprakash | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3.00 |
| England 2nd innings (target: 348 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Butcher | lbw b MacGill | 40 | 139 | 98 | 4 | 0 | 40.81 | |
| MA Atherton | c Fleming b McGrath | 28 | 65 | 55 | 4 | 0 | 50.90 | |
| N Hussain | b MacGill | 47 | 149 | 122 | 1 | 2 | 38.52 | |
| AJ Stewart*† | c Ponting b ME Waugh | 3 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| GP Thorpe | c Langer b ME Waugh | 9 | 41 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| MR Ramprakash | st †Healy b MacGill | 14 | 39 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 31.11 | |
| DG Cork | not out | 21 | 39 | 37 | 3 | 0 | 56.75 | |
| RDB Croft | not out | 4 | 23 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 16.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 1, nb 9) | 13 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 68 overs; 255 mins) | 179 | (2.63 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat D Gough, AD Mullally, ARC Fraser |
| Fall of wickets1-46 (Atherton, 16.3 ov), 2-96 (Butcher, 34.5 ov), 3-103 (Stewart, 37.4 ov), 4-133 (Thorpe, 49.1 ov), 5-148 (Hussain, 56.1 ov), 6-161 (Ramprakash, 60.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GD McGrath | 16 | 6 | 30 | 1 | 1.87 | |||
| MS Kasprowicz | 8 | 3 | 28 | 0 | 3.50 | (1w) | ||
| DW Fleming | 7 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 1.71 | (2nb) | ||
| SCG MacGill | 22 | 3 | 51 | 3 | 2.31 | |||
| ME Waugh | 14 | 0 | 55 | 2 | 3.92 | (7nb) | ||
| RT Ponting | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series 5-match series level 0-0 |
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Player of the match
GD McGrath (Australia) |
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Umpires
KT Francis (Sri Lanka) and DB Hair TV umpire PD Parker Match referee JR Reid (New Zealand) |
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Close of play 20 Nov day 1 - Australia 1st innings 246/5 (SR Waugh 69*, IA Healy 46*, 89 ov) 21 Nov day 2 - England 1st innings 53/1 (MA Butcher 23*, N Hussain 23*, 19 ov) 22 Nov day 3 - England 1st innings 299/4 (GP Thorpe 70*, MR Ramprakash 29*, 94.2 ov) 23 Nov day 4 - England 2nd innings 26/0 (MA Butcher 7*, MA Atherton 18*, 7 ov) 24 Nov day 5 - England 2nd innings 179/6 (68 ov) - end of match |
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Nov 24, 1998 
A violent electrical storm stops play at Brisbane © Getty Images |
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