Prudential World Cup - 3rd match, Group A
England won by 6 wickets (with 77 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 63 | 1979 season
- Played at Lord's, London
- 9 June 1979 (60-over match)
| Australia innings (60 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AMJ Hilditch | b Boycott | 47 | 136 | 108 | 2 | 0 | 43.51 | |
| WM Darling | lbw b Willis | 25 | 82 | 61 | 3 | 0 | 40.98 | |
| AR Border | c †Taylor b Edmonds | 34 | 87 | 74 | 4 | 0 | 45.94 | |
| KJ Hughes* | c Hendrick b Boycott | 6 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| GN Yallop | run out | 10 | 23 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| GJ Cosier | run out | 6 | 19 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 | |
| TJ Laughlin | run out | 8 | 40 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| KJ Wright† | lbw b Old | 6 | 20 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| RM Hogg | run out | 0 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AG Hurst | not out | 3 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 | |
| G Dymock | not out | 4 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 5, w 1) | 10 | ||||||
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| Total | (9 wickets; 60 overs) | 159 | (2.65 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-56 (Darling), 2-97 (Hilditch), 3-111 (Hughes), 4-131 (Border), 5-132 (Yallop), 6-137 (Cosier), 7-150 (Wright), 8-153 (Laughlin), 9-153 (Hogg) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RGD Willis | 11 | 2 | 20 | 1 | 1.81 | |||
| M Hendrick | 12 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 2.00 | |||
| CM Old | 12 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 2.75 | |||
| IT Botham | 8 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 4.00 | |||
| PH Edmonds | 11 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 2.27 | |||
| G Boycott | 6 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 2.50 |
| England innings (target: 160 runs from 60 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JM Brearley* | c †Wright b Laughlin | 44 | 169 | 147 | 2 | 0 | 29.93 | |
| G Boycott | lbw b Hogg | 1 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| DW Randall | c †Wright b Hurst | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| GA Gooch | lbw b Laughlin | 53 | 131 | 96 | 6 | 0 | 55.20 | |
| DI Gower | not out | 22 | 44 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 73.33 | |
| IT Botham | not out | 18 | 31 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 128.57 | |
| Extras | (lb 10, nb 11) | 21 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 47.1 overs) | 160 | (3.39 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat PH Edmonds, RW Taylor†, CM Old, M Hendrick, RGD Willis |
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Boycott), 2-5 (Randall), 3-113 (Gooch), 4-124 (Brearley) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RM Hogg | 9 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 2.77 | |||
| AG Hurst | 10 | 3 | 33 | 1 | 3.30 | |||
| G Dymock | 11 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 1.72 | |||
| GJ Cosier | 8 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 3.00 | |||
| TJ Laughlin | 9.1 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 4.14 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to field Points England 4, Australia 0 |
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Player of the match
GA Gooch (England) |
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Umpires
DJ Constant and BJ Meyer |
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