3rd Match, England v Australia, Natwest Series, Statistical Highlights

It was the 1721st ODI in cricket history

11-Jun-2001

It was the 1721st ODI in cricket history.

It was England's 327th and Australia's 483rd ODI match.

It was the 68th match between these two sides. The record now reads : Australia 35, England 31,tied one and abandoned one.

Umpires John Hampshire and Ray Julian were officiating in their 20th and sixth match respectively.

Karachi born Owais Shah became 163rd player to represent England in ODIs.

The two wickets in this match has taken Darren Gough's tally to 58 in the matches in England - more than any one else. Gough was earlier at level with 56 wickets with Ian Botham. The accompanying table lists the leading bowlers on English soil :

Bowler	Wkts	For	Mts	Balls	Runs	Ave	Best	SR	RpO	5W
D Gough	58	Eng	34	1948	1326	22.86	5/44	33.59	4.08	1
IT Botham	56	Eng	47	2843	1824	32.57	4/45	50.77	3.85	0
RGD Willis	45	Eng	32	1949	1005	22.33	4/11	43.31	3.09	0
CM Old	36	Eng	24	1411	782	21.72	4/8	39.19	3.33	0
AME Roberts	36	WI	21	1297	692	19.22	4/27	36.03	3.2	0
RJ Hadlee	33	NZ	21	1377	714	21.64	5/25	41.73	3.11	1
MA Holding	33	WI	19	1156	568	17.21	4/33	35.03	2.95	0
CC Lewis	30	Eng	20	1153	893	29.77	4/40	38.43	4.65	0

Ricky Ponting (102) scored his first hundred against England and eighth in his ODI career. His previous highest against England was 75* at Melbourne on 15-01-1999

England has now lost seven matches at a trotit second worst run in ODIs. It had lost 8 consecutive matches from 25-10-1989 to 23-05-1990. England also had three other sequences of defeat in seven consecutive matches .Incidentally the ODI record of most consecutive defeats is held by Bangladesh who lost 22 matches before registering its maiden victory against Kenya at Hyderabad on 17-05-1998.

The defeat was England's fifth in as many matches against Australia which equalled its worst run against Australia. England had also lost five consecutive matches against Australia from 06-06-1981 to 23-01-1983

Ricky Ponting was winning his tenth Man of the Match award - his second in successive matches.

England vs Australia County Ground