Benson & Hedges World Cup - 18th match
England won by 8 wickets (with 55 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 731 | 1991/92 season
- Played at Sydney Cricket Ground
- 5 March 1992 - day/night (50-over match)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| TM Moody | b Tufnell | 51 | 131 | 88 | 3 | 0 | 57.95 | |
| MA Taylor | lbw b Pringle | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DC Boon | run out (Fairbrother) | 18 | 29 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| DM Jones | c Lewis b DeFreitas | 22 | 78 | 49 | 2 | 0 | 44.89 | |
| SR Waugh | run out (DeFreitas/†Stewart) | 27 | 65 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 62.79 | |
| AR Border* | b Botham | 16 | 30 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 72.72 | |
| IA Healy† | c Fairbrother b Botham | 9 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 128.57 | |
| PL Taylor | lbw b Botham | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| CJ McDermott | c DeFreitas b Botham | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MR Whitney | not out | 8 | 33 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 29.62 | |
| BA Reid | b Reeve | 1 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 4.76 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 8, w 5, nb 4) | 19 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 49 overs) | 171 | (3.48 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-5 (MA Taylor), 2-35 (Boon), 3-106 (Jones), 4-114 (Moody), 5-145 (Border), 6-155 (Healy), 7-155 (PL Taylor), 8-155 (McDermott), 9-164 (Waugh), 10-171 (Reid) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DR Pringle | 9 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 2.66 | (4nb, 1w) | ||
| CC Lewis | 10 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 2.80 | (2w) | ||
| PAJ DeFreitas | 10 | 3 | 23 | 1 | 2.30 | (1w) | ||
| IT Botham | 10 | 1 | 31 | 4 | 3.10 | (1w) | ||
| PCR Tufnell | 9 | 0 | 52 | 1 | 5.77 | (1nb) | ||
| DA Reeve | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3.00 |
| England innings (target: 172 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GA Gooch* | b Waugh | 58 | 157 | 112 | 7 | 0 | 51.78 | |
| IT Botham | c †Healy b Whitney | 53 | 103 | 77 | 6 | 0 | 68.83 | |
| RA Smith | not out | 30 | 66 | 58 | 5 | 0 | 51.72 | |
| GA Hick | not out | 7 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 140.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 13, w 8, nb 4) | 25 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 40.5 overs) | 173 | (4.23 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat NH Fairbrother, AJ Stewart†, CC Lewis, DA Reeve, DR Pringle, PAJ DeFreitas, PCR Tufnell |
| Fall of wickets1-107 (Botham), 2-153 (Gooch) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 10 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 2.90 | (1nb, 3w) | ||
| BA Reid | 7.5 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 6.25 | (5nb, 2w) | ||
| MR Whitney | 10 | 2 | 28 | 1 | 2.80 | (1w) | ||
| SR Waugh | 6 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 4.83 | (2w) | ||
| PL Taylor | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2.33 | |||
| TM Moody | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 4.50 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Points England 2, Australia 0 |
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Player of the match
IT Botham (England) |
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Umpires
SA Bucknor (West Indies) and Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) |
| Match notes |
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