ENG vs SA, South Africa tour of England and Ireland 2003, 1st Test at Birmingham, July 24 - 28, 2003

Matches (7)

WC Warm-up (2)

AUS v WI (W) (1)

SA v NZ (W) (1)

Irani Cup (1)

T20WC QLF (2)

RESULT

1st Test, Birmingham, July 24 - 28, 2003, South Africa tour of England and Ireland

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South Africa

594/5d & 134/4d

England

(T:321) 408 & 110/1

Match drawn

Player Of The Match

Graeme Smith

, SA

277 & 85

South Africa 1st Innings

England 1st Innings

South Africa 2nd Innings

England 2nd Innings

Match Flow

Info

South Africa 1st Innings

BATTING		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Graeme Smith (c)	c Anderson b Giles	277	373	541	35	0	74.26

Herschelle Gibbs	c Butcher b Vaughan	179	236	305	29	1	75.84

Gary Kirsten	c †Stewart b Giles	44	95	105	7	0	46.31

Boeta Dippenaar	c Butcher b Gough	22	62	83	3	0	35.48

Jacques Rudolph	c Gough b Harmison	10	35	38	1	0	28.57

Mark Boucher †	not out	15	34	49	1	0	44.11
Shaun Pollock	not out	24	39	42	0	1	61.53
Extras	(b 8, lb 11, nb 4)	23
TOTAL	145 Ov (RR: 4.09, 584 Mins)	594/5d
Did not bat: Robin Peterson, Dewald Pretorius, Makhaya Ntini, Charl Willoughby
Fall of wickets: 1-338 (Herschelle Gibbs, 74.5 ov), 2-438 (Gary Kirsten, 101.5 ov), 3-514 (Boeta Dippenaar, 122.4 ov), 4-552 (Jacques Rudolph, 132.2 ov), 5-556 (Graeme Smith, 133.4 ov)

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
James Anderson	16	2	92	0	5.75	64	16	0	0	1
Darren Gough	25	6	88	1	3.52	112	12	1	0	2
122.4 to HH Dippenaar, short of length ball, Dippenaar goes back and powerfully pulls it to square leg, good low catch taken by Butcher. 514/3
Andrew Flintoff	25	6	97	0	3.88	107	15	0	0	1
Steve Harmison	27	2	104	1	3.85	111	13	0	0	0
132.2 to JA Rudolph, short and wide again outside off, slashes hard takes a big outer edge in the hand of Gough at third man position who makes no mistake and takes an easy catch. 552/4
Ashley Giles	42	2	153	2	3.64	166	16	1	0	0
101.5 to G Kirsten, pitches well down the leg, spins further away, Kirsten tries to turn it, little nick through to keeper. 438/2 133.4 to GC Smith, tosses up, down on one knee and heave it from well outside off, not properly timed it and Anderson takes a good catch at deep mid wicket, a great innings comes to an end. 556/5
Mark Butcher	2	0	15	0	7.50	5	2	0	0	0
Michael Vaughan	8	0	26	1	3.25	33	2	0	0	0
74.5 to HH Gibbs, tosses up, comes on the front foot, down on one knee and heave it to deep mid wicket straight into the hand of Butcher who takes a well judge catch. 338/1

England 1st Innings

BATTING		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Marcus Trescothick	b Ntini	31	86	124	6	0	36.04

Michael Vaughan	c †Boucher b Pretorius	156	286	415	24	1	54.54

Mark Butcher	lbw b Ntini	13	50	61	2	0	26.00

Nasser Hussain (c)	lbw b Pollock	1	7	6	0	0	14.28

Anthony McGrath	c Rudolph b Pretorius	34	69	98	5	0	49.27

Alec Stewart †	b Pretorius	38	87	131	7	0	43.67

Andrew Flintoff	lbw b Pretorius	40	57	75	7	1	70.17

Ashley Giles	b Pollock	41	83	109	8	0	49.39

Darren Gough	c Rudolph b Ntini	1	18	29	0	0	5.55

Steve Harmison	b Ntini	0	2	1	0	0	0.00

James Anderson	not out	0	4	12	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 19, lb 6, nb 17, w 11)	53
TOTAL	122.4 Ov (RR: 3.32, 534 Mins)	408
Fall of wickets: 1-66 (Marcus Trescothick, 26.6 ov), 2-132 (Mark Butcher, 41.1 ov), 3-133 (Nasser Hussain, 42.2 ov), 4-222 (Anthony McGrath, 64.6 ov), 5-306 (Michael Vaughan, 94.4 ov), 6-311 (Alec Stewart, 96.4 ov), 7-374 (Andrew Flintoff, 112.5 ov), 8-398 (Darren Gough, 119.4 ov), 9-398 (Steve Harmison, 119.6 ov), 10-408 (Ashley Giles, 122.4 ov)

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Shaun Pollock	27.4	10	51	2	1.84	149	7	0	1	7
42.2 to N Hussain, pitches on off, swings into the right hander, Hussain missread it and tries to leave it, ball hit the pads in front of middle and off, huge appeal for lbw and finger goes up in a flash. 133/3 122.4 to AF Giles, all over! good sharp yorker, right in the block hole, no chance for Giles to digs it out, off stump uprooted. 408/10
Makhaya Ntini	28	8	114	4	4.07	129	20	2	0	2
26.6 to ME Trescothick, Beauty! yorker length, Trescothick comprehensively beaten and off stump knocked out of the ground. 66/1 41.1 to MA Butcher, from round the wicket, pitches on off, came in very sharply, Butcher was late to play it, ball rapped on pads in front of stumps, huge appeal for lbw, Harper finger goes up. 132/2 119.4 to D Gough, Got the short ball, tries to hook, ball hurries into him, top edges ton the loop to square leg. 398/8 119.6 to SJ Harmison, Ball was on line, just back of a length, gets half forward to play, wrong line, clips the top of the off bail. 398/9
Charl Willoughby	20	7	46	0	2.30	102	6	0	2	0
Dewald Pretorius	25	2	115	4	4.60	108	16	0	4	4
64.6 to A McGrath, good sharp and short ball, McGrath took his eyes off the ball, off the top edge in the hand of Rudolph at gully who dives forward and take a good catch. 222/4 94.4 to MP Vaughan, fuller ball, invites for drive, hint of away movement, Vaughan went for the expensive drive, big edge into the hand of Boucher, a great innings comes to an end. 306/5 96.4 to AJ Stewart, beauty! fuller ball, inswinging yorker, with great pace, Stewart unable to cope with it, ball hit the leg stump, now England in some trouble. 311/6 112.5 to A Flintoff, pitches on middle stump, kept very low almost, hit on pads in front of stumps, huge appeal for lbw, umpire finger goes up. 374/7
Robin Peterson	22	9	57	0	2.59	109	10	0	0	0

South Africa 2nd Innings

BATTING		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Graeme Smith (c)	b Giles	85	70	100	10	2	121.42

Herschelle Gibbs	b Anderson	9	21	32	0	0	42.85

Gary Kirsten	c McGrath b Harmison	1	10	7	0	0	10.00

Boeta Dippenaar	not out	28	46	72	2	0	60.86
Jacques Rudolph	st †Stewart b Giles	8	10	12	0	0	80.00

Extras	(lb 2, nb 1)	3
TOTAL	26 Ov (RR: 5.15, 113 Mins)	134/4d
Did not bat: Mark Boucher †, Shaun Pollock, Robin Peterson, Dewald Pretorius, Makhaya Ntini, Charl Willoughby
Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Herschelle Gibbs, 7.2 ov), 2-32 (Gary Kirsten, 8.5 ov), 3-114 (Graeme Smith, 23.1 ov), 4-134 (Jacques Rudolph, 25.6 ov)

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Steve Harmison	6	0	34	1	5.66	22	4	0	0	1
8.5 to G Kirsten, form round the wicket angling into batsman got some bounce too, Kirsten plays it in the air to short leg, McGrath takes an easy catch. 32/2
James Anderson	10	1	37	1	3.70	40	5	0	0	0
7.2 to HH Gibbs, GONE! good length, kicks up off the pitch, comes forward to defend, off the elbow onto stumps. 30/1
Ashley Giles	8	0	45	2	5.62	23	2	1	0	0
23.1 to GC Smith, comes down the wicket for a big hit and misses, ball spun sharply went through the gate and hits the stumps. 114/3 25.6 to JA Rudolph, tosses up, Rudolph rushed out of his crease to improvise a hoik, misses, Steward did the rest whips the bails off in a flash, third umpired called, given away out, declaration too!. 134/4
Andrew Flintoff	2	0	16	0	8.00	6	1	1	0	0

England 2nd Innings (T: 321 runs)

BATTING		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Marcus Trescothick	not out	52	94	136	9	0	55.31
Michael Vaughan	c Pollock b Peterson	22	61	89	1	1	36.06

Nasser Hussain (c)	not out	23	49	47	5	0	46.93
Extras	(b 8, lb 5)	13
TOTAL	34 Ov (RR: 3.23, 136 Mins)	110/1
Did not bat: Mark Butcher, Anthony McGrath, Andrew Flintoff, Alec Stewart †, Ashley Giles, Darren Gough, Steve Harmison, James Anderson
Fall of wickets: 1-72 (Michael Vaughan, 21.2 ov)

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Shaun Pollock	7	3	6	0	0.85	37	0	0	0	0
Makhaya Ntini	4	0	38	0	9.50	12	7	1	0	0
Robin Peterson	13	3	33	1	2.53	61	4	0	0	0
21.2 to MP Vaughan, well flighted delivery on the stumps, Vaughan goes after it and gets an edge to first slip, good sharp catch taken by Pollock. 72/1
Dewald Pretorius	10	6	20	0	2.00	52	4	0	0	0

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Thu, 24 Jul - day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 398/1 (Graeme Smith 178*, Gary Kirsten 26*, 91 ov)

Fri, 25 Jul - day 2 - no play

Sat, 26 Jul - day 3 - England 1st innings 25/0 (Marcus Trescothick 17*, Michael Vaughan 4*, 8 ov)

Sun, 27 Jul - day 4 - England 1st innings 374/7 (Ashley Giles 9*, 112.5 ov)

Mon, 28 Jul - day 5 - England 2nd innings 110/1 (34 ov) - end of match

MATCH FLOW

General

Day 1

HH Gibbs 50 in 141 mins off 96 balls, 9x4
GC Smith 50 in 154 mins off 115 balls, 9x4
HH Gibbs 100 in 194 mins off 138 balls, 18x4, 1x6
GC Smith 100 in 224 mins off 161 balls, 16x4
1st wicket partnership record for South Africa against England passing the 260 set by B Mitchell and IJ Siedle in Cape Town 1930/31
HH Gibbs 150 in 243 mins off 188 balls, 26x4, 1x6
GC Smith 150 in 321 mins off 231 balls, 21x4

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

GC Smith 50 in 78 mins off 50 balls, 5x4, 1x6
ME Trescothick 50 in 98 mins off 73 balls, 9x4

MATCH DETAILS

Edgbaston, Birmingham
Toss	South Africa, elected to bat first
Series	South Africa tour of England and Ireland
Season	2003
Player Of The Match	Graeme Smith
Series result	5-match series level 0-0
Match number	Test no. 1651
Match days	day (5-day match)
Umpires	Daryl Harper Srinivas Venkataraghavan
TV Umpire	Jeremy Lloyds
Match Referee	Ranjan Madugalle