Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Mike Atherton (c)	c ME Waugh b McGrath	0	2	2	0	0	0.00

Marcus Trescothick	c †Gilchrist b Gillespie	69	93	125	13	0	74.19

Mark Butcher	c Ponting b McGrath	13	29	46	1	0	44.82

Mark Ramprakash	c †Gilchrist b Gillespie	14	18	29	3	0	77.77

Alec Stewart †	c ME Waugh b McGrath	46	90	133	8	0	51.11

Ian Ward	c †Gilchrist b McGrath	6	20	32	0	0	30.00

Craig White	c Hayden b McGrath	0	9	10	0	0	0.00

Alex Tudor	lbw b Warne	3	17	18	0	0	17.64

Robert Croft	c Ponting b Warne	3	10	10	0	0	30.00

Andy Caddick	b Lee	13	26	29	2	0	50.00

Darren Gough	not out	0	10	16	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 1, lb 9, nb 7, w 1)	18
Total	52.5 Ov (RR: 3.50, 225 Mins)	185
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Mike Atherton, 0.2 ov), 2-30 (Mark Butcher, 10.5 ov), 3-63 (Mark Ramprakash, 17.3 ov), 4-117 (Marcus Trescothick, 28.2 ov), 5-142 (Ian Ward, 36.1 ov), 6-147 (Craig White, 38.4 ov), 7-158 (Alex Tudor, 43.3 ov), 8-168 (Robert Croft, 45.6 ov), 9-180 (Alec Stewart, 48.4 ov), 10-185 (Andy Caddick, 52.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Glenn McGrath	18	4	49	5	2.72	87	7	0	0	0
0.2 to MA Atherton, pitched out side off stump, moved in this time, tried to drop his hand, replay shows the ball hits his arm gaurd on its way to Mark Waugh in 2nd slip. 0/1 10.5 to MA Butcher, pitched out side leg, seemed away the left hander, squared him up, outer edge, straight to ponting at 1st Gully. 30/2 36.1 to IJ Ward, comes around the wicket, goes away off the wicket takes a thin edge off the crossed up defensive bat through to the keeper. 142/5 38.4 to C White, pops up a simple catch to short leg reaching forward clips the inside edge off the pad and white's fine series continues. 147/6 48.4 to AJ Stewart, pushes away from his body regulation catch at waist height second slip. 180/9
Brett Lee	6.5	0	30	1	4.39	33	3	0	1	5
52.5 to AR Caddick, swing and misses at a straight ball. 185/10
Jason Gillespie	12	1	59	2	4.91	53	12	0	0	0
17.3 to MR Ramprakash, straighter ball out side off, comes forward, tried to push through the off side, thin edge, straight to Gilchrist. 63/3 28.2 to ME Trescothick, draws him into a half forward defensive shot thick edge take by the keeper moving to his left. 117/4
Shane Warne	16	4	37	2	2.31	81	5	0	0	2
43.3 to AJ Tudor, comes half forward puts the front foot up taken on the toe bat coming through late well in front. 158/7 45.6 to RDB Croft, comes forward bat with pad turns a little takes the pad goes off the face off the pad to an easy catch at silly mid off. 168/8

Australia 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Michael Slater	b Gough	15	49	75	1	0	30.61

Matthew Hayden	lbw b Tudor	33	42	56	7	0	78.57

Ricky Ponting	c †Stewart b Gough	14	20	32	3	0	70.00

Mark Waugh	c Atherton b Tudor	15	44	65	3	0	34.09

Steve Waugh (c)	c Atherton b Caddick	13	30	38	2	0	43.33

Damien Martyn	c †Stewart b Caddick	4	8	15	1	0	50.00

Adam Gilchrist †	c Atherton b Tudor	54	59	119	10	0	91.52

Shane Warne	lbw b Caddick	0	2	2	0	0	0.00

Brett Lee	c Butcher b Tudor	4	14	41	0	0	28.57

Jason Gillespie	not out	27	62	72	4	0	43.54
Glenn McGrath	c Butcher b Tudor	2	4	2	0	0	50.00

Extras	(lb 3, nb 5, w 1)	9
Total	54.5 Ov (RR: 3.46, 259 Mins)	190
Fall of wickets: 1-48 (Matthew Hayden, 12.6 ov), 2-56 (Michael Slater, 17.1 ov), 3-69 (Ricky Ponting, 19.6 ov), 4-82 (Steve Waugh, 28.6 ov), 5-94 (Mark Waugh, 31.5 ov), 6-102 (Damien Martyn, 32.2 ov), 7-102 (Shane Warne, 32.4 ov), 8-122 (Brett Lee, 39.1 ov), 9-188 (Adam Gilchrist, 54.1 ov), 10-190 (Glenn McGrath, 54.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Darren Gough	15	3	63	2	4.20	66	10	0	1	1
17.1 to MJ Slater, chases a ball outside off stump dragged off a solid inside edge onto middle stump. 56/2 19.6 to RT Ponting, comes forward driving eagerly again gets a thin edge through to the keeper and is on his bike. 69/3
Andy Caddick	20	4	70	3	3.50	92	11	0	0	3
28.6 to SR Waugh, lifting ball, backfoot forcing drive takes a thick edge to a head high catch at first slip. 82/4 32.2 to DR Martyn, comes forward square defensively moves away a little thin edge through to the keeper. 102/6 32.4 to SK Warne, full ball struck on the boot on the half volley going on to the stumps. 102/7
Alex Tudor	15.5	5	44	5	2.77	79	8	0	0	1
12.6 to ML Hayden, pitched outside legstump struck him in line hitting the stumps as he tried to drive. 48/1 31.5 to ME Waugh, driving again a thick edge goes to an easy first slip catch. 94/5 39.1 to B Lee, very quick, on the of stump, good bounce, plays it rather awkwardly, takes the edge, straight to Butcher at 2nd slip. 122/8 54.1 to AC Gilchrist, just out side off stump, slashes at it, outside edge, straight to Atherton and they are not dropping in this match. 188/9 54.5 to GD McGrath, just out side off, takes the outer edge, beautifully taken by Butcher at 2nd slip, diving to his left. 190/10
Craig White	2	1	8	0	4.00	10	2	0	0	0
Robert Croft	2	0	2	0	1.00	10	0	0	0	0

England 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Mike Atherton (c)	c †Gilchrist b Warne	51	104	150	9	0	49.03

Marcus Trescothick	c †Gilchrist b Warne	32	55	71	4	0	58.18

Mark Butcher	lbw b Lee	1	9	6	0	0	11.11

Mark Ramprakash	st †Gilchrist b Warne	26	70	75	3	0	37.14

Alec Stewart †	b Warne	0	2	5	0	0	0.00

Ian Ward	lbw b Gillespie	13	39	53	1	0	33.33

Craig White	c SR Waugh b Warne	7	24	35	0	0	29.16

Alex Tudor	c Ponting b Warne	9	26	52	1	0	34.61

Robert Croft	b Gillespie	0	4	6	0	0	0.00

Andy Caddick	c †Gilchrist b Gillespie	4	7	8	1	0	57.14

Darren Gough	not out	5	8	26	1	0	62.50
Extras	(b 4, lb 3, nb 7)	14
Total	57 Ov (RR: 2.84, 243 Mins)	162
Fall of wickets: 1-57 (Marcus Trescothick, 16.3 ov), 2-59 (Mark Butcher, 17.6 ov), 3-115 (Mike Atherton, 36.6 ov), 4-115 (Alec Stewart, 38.2 ov), 5-126 (Mark Ramprakash, 40.2 ov), 6-144 (Craig White, 48.5 ov), 7-144 (Ian Ward, 49.4 ov), 8-146 (Robert Croft, 51.3 ov), 9-156 (Andy Caddick, 53.5 ov), 10-162 (Alex Tudor, 56.6 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Glenn McGrath	11	3	31	0	2.81	53	2	0	0	0
Jason Gillespie	20	8	61	3	3.05	98	11	0	0	0
49.4 to IJ Ward, on target, held its line hit on the knee roll and in front, finger goes up. 144/7 51.3 to RDB Croft, tried a drive statically to the off, inside edge from well outside off, onto his stumps. 146/8 53.5 to AR Caddick, a conventional edge, ball moved away a tad. 156/9
Brett Lee	8	1	30	1	3.75	40	4	0	0	7
17.6 to MA Butcher, trying to drive but gets the pad in front of the bat, pitches on middle stump goes onto middle stump. 59/2
Shane Warne	18	5	33	6	1.83	88	3	0	0	0
16.3 to ME Trescothick, paddles a sweep into short legs not so short leg balloons in the air where a catch is taken coming from behind the stumps by gilchrist. 57/1 36.6 to MA Atherton, comes forward to a regulation defensive turns from about off stump looks to take a thin outside edge through to the keepers gloves, athers less than happy. 115/3 38.2 to AJ Stewart, rocks back cuts chopped off the underedge into middle stump. 115/4 40.2 to MR Ramprakash, jumps down the track misses the ball and is stumped by many feet, aiming a big hit over midwicket by the looks. 126/5 48.5 to C White, white comes forward ball striked inside edge onto pad looks to take the bat on the way out again and sr waugh takes a brilliant one handed (right) diving catch in front of himself. 144/6 56.6 to AJ Tudor, outside leg again, tries to hit against the spin, outer edge, in the air, nicely taken by Ponting at extra cover. 162/10

Australia 2nd Innings (T: 158 runs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Matthew Hayden	lbw b Tudor	42	51	84	7	0	82.35

Michael Slater	c Trescothick b Caddick	12	17	25	2	0	70.58

Ricky Ponting	c †Stewart b Croft	17	31	34	3	0	54.83

Mark Waugh	not out	42	45	134	7	0	93.33
Steve Waugh (c)	retired hurt	1	1	1	0	0	100.00
Damien Martyn	not out	33	37	106	6	0	89.18
Extras	(lb 4, nb 7)	11
Total	29.2 Ov (RR: 5.38, 192 Mins)	158/3
Did not bat: Adam Gilchrist †, Shane Warne, Brett Lee, Jason Gillespie, Glenn McGrath
Fall of wickets: 1-36 (Michael Slater, 5.4 ov), 2-72 (Ricky Ponting, 13.2 ov), 3-88 (Matthew Hayden, 18.3 ov), 3-89* (Steve Waugh, retired not out)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Darren Gough	9	1	38	0	4.22	41	7	0	0	2
Andy Caddick	12.2	1	71	1	5.75	45	9	0	0	4
5.4 to MJ Slater, pitched outside off stump, moved away, tries to hit through the off, outside edge, this time straight to Trescothick at third slip. 36/1
Alex Tudor	7	0	37	1	5.28	30	7	0	0	0
18.3 to ML Hayden, pitching outside leg stumping angling across the stumps and that's apparently lbw. 88/3
Robert Croft	1	0	8	1	8.00	4	2	0	0	0
13.2 to RT Ponting, pushes forward takes a thin edge through to the keeper. 72/2

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Thu, 02 Aug - day 1 - Australia 1st innings 105/7 (Adam Gilchrist 4*, Brett Lee 3*, 33.3 ov)

Fri, 03 Aug - day 2 - England 2nd innings 144/6 (Ian Ward 13*, 48.5 ov)

Sat, 04 Aug - day 3 - Australia 2nd innings 158/3 (29.2 ov) - end of match

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Lunch: Australia 68/1 (Hayden 35*, Ponting 13*, 13 overs)
SR Waugh (2) retired hurt at 89/3 (1* off 1 ball, pulled up after taking a single)

Match Details

Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Toss	England, elected to bat first
Series	Australia tour of England and Ireland
Season	2001
Player Of The Match	Shane Warne
Series result	Australia led the 5-match series 3-0
Match number	Test no. 1554
Match days	day (5-day match)
Umpires	John Hampshire Srinivas Venkataraghavan
TV Umpire	David Constant
Match Referee	Talat Ali

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Australia Innings

Player Name		R	B
ML Hayden	lbw	42	51
MJ Slater	caught	12	17
RT Ponting	caught	17	31
ME Waugh	not out	42	45
SR Waugh	retired hurt	1	1
DR Martyn	not out	33	37
Extras	(lb 4, nb 7)
Total	158(3 wkts; 29.2 ovs)

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
D Gough	9	1	38	0	4.22 (2 nb)
AR Caddick	12.2	1	71	1	5.75 (4 nb)
AJ Tudor	7	0	37	1	5.28
RDB Croft	1	0	8	1	8

Wkt	Runs	Players
1st	36	Michael Slater	Matthew Hayden
2nd	36	Matthew Hayden	Ricky Ponting
3rd	16	Mark Waugh	Matthew Hayden
4th	1	Steve Waugh	Mark Waugh
5th	69	Mark Waugh	Damien Martyn

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