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England vs Australia, 1st Test at Birmingham, Jun 05 1997 - Full Scorecard

RESULT

1st Test, Birmingham, June 05 - 08, 1997, Australia tour of England and Scotland

118 & 477

(T:118) 478/9d & 119/1

England won by 9 wickets

Player Of The Match

, ENG

207

Australia 1st Innings

England 1st Innings

Australia 2nd Innings

England 2nd Innings

Match Flow

Info

Australia 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Mark Taylor (c)	c Butcher b Malcolm	7	16	23	1	0	43.75
Matthew Elliott	b Gough	6	13	18	1	0	46.15
Greg Blewett	c Hussain b Gough	7	15	35	0	0	46.66
Mark Waugh	b Gough	5	25	23	1	0	20.00
Steve Waugh	c †Stewart b Caddick	12	20	31	3	0	60.00
Michael Bevan	c Ealham b Malcolm	8	21	31	1	0	38.09
Ian Healy †	c †Stewart b Caddick	0	1	2	0	0	0.00
Jason Gillespie	lbw b Caddick	4	8	13	1	0	50.00
Shane Warne	c Malcolm b Caddick	47	46	62	8	0	102.17
Michael Kasprowicz	c Butcher b Caddick	17	28	42	3	0	60.71
Glenn McGrath	not out	1	3	9	0	0	33.33
Extras	(nb 2, w 2)	4
Total	31.5 Ov (RR: 3.70)	118
Fall of wickets 1-11 (Matthew Elliott), 2-15 (Mark Taylor), 3-26 (Mark Waugh), 4-28 (Greg Blewett), 5-48 (Steve Waugh), 6-48 (Ian Healy), 7-48 (Michael Bevan), 8-54 (Jason Gillespie), 9-110 (Michael Kasprowicz), 10-118 (Shane Warne)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Darren Gough	10	1	43	3	4.30	-	2	3
Devon Malcolm	10	2	25	2	2.50	-	0	0
Andy Caddick	11.5	1	50	5	4.22	-	0	2

England 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Mark Butcher	c †Healy b Kasprowicz	8	13	16	2	0	61.53
Mike Atherton (c)	c †Healy b McGrath	2	4	10	0	0	50.00
Alec Stewart †	c Elliott b Gillespie	18	33	52	3	0	54.54
Nasser Hussain	c †Healy b Warne	207	337	437	38	0	61.42
Graham Thorpe	c Bevan b McGrath	138	245	290	19	0	56.32
John Crawley	c †Healy b Kasprowicz	1	14	19	0	0	7.14
Mark Ealham	not out	53	131	171	7	0	40.45
Robert Croft	c †Healy b Kasprowicz	24	56	70	4	0	42.85
Darren Gough	c †Healy b Kasprowicz	0	9	8	0	0	0.00
Andy Caddick	lbw b Bevan	0	7	11	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 4, lb 7, nb 15, w 1)	27
Total	138.4 Ov (RR: 3.44)	478/9d
Did not bat Devon Malcolm
Fall of wickets 1-8 (Mike Atherton), 2-16 (Mark Butcher), 3-50 (Alec Stewart), 4-338 (Graham Thorpe), 5-345 (John Crawley), 6-416 (Nasser Hussain), 7-460 (Robert Croft), 8-463 (Darren Gough), 9-478 (Andy Caddick)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Glenn McGrath	32	8	107	2	3.34	-	0	7
Michael Kasprowicz	39	8	113	4	2.89	-	1	6
Jason Gillespie	10	1	48	1	4.80	-	0	1
Shane Warne	35	8	110	1	3.14	-	0	1
Michael Bevan	10.4	0	44	1	4.12	-	0	0
Steve Waugh	12	2	45	0	3.75	-	0	2

Australia 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Matthew Elliott	b Croft	66	113	145	12	0	58.40
Mark Taylor (c)	c & b Croft	129	296	396	11	1	43.58
Greg Blewett	c Butcher b Croft	125	228	300	19	1	54.82
Steve Waugh	lbw b Gough	33	100	135	3	0	33.00
Michael Bevan	c Hussain b Gough	24	41	45	4	0	58.53
Mark Waugh	c †Stewart b Gough	1	7	8	0	0	14.28
Ian Healy †	c Atherton b Ealham	30	48	66	5	0	62.50
Shane Warne	c & b Ealham	32	34	51	5	0	94.11
Michael Kasprowicz	c Butcher b Ealham	0	2	1	0	0	0.00
Jason Gillespie	run out (Crawley/Gough)	0	6	11	0	0	0.00
Glenn McGrath	not out	0	0	1	0	0	-
Extras	(b 18, lb 12, nb 5, w 2)	37
Total	144.4 Ov (RR: 3.29)	477
Fall of wickets 1-133 (Matthew Elliott), 2-327 (Mark Taylor), 3-354 (Greg Blewett), 4-393 (Michael Bevan), 5-399 (Mark Waugh), 6-431 (Steve Waugh), 7-465 (Ian Healy), 8-465 (Michael Kasprowicz), 9-477 (Jason Gillespie), 10-477 (Shane Warne)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Darren Gough	35	7	123	3	3.51	-	0	4
Devon Malcolm	21	6	52	0	2.47	-	0	0
Robert Croft	43	10	125	3	2.90	-	2	0
Andy Caddick	30	6	87	0	2.90	-	0	3
Mark Ealham	15.4	3	60	3	3.82	-	0	0

England 2nd Innings (T: 118 runs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Mark Butcher	lbw b Kasprowicz	14	10	15	2	0	140.00
Mike Atherton (c)	not out	57	65	87	9	0	87.69
Alec Stewart †	not out	40	54	71	7	0	74.07
Extras	(b 4, lb 4)	8
Total	21.3 Ov (RR: 5.53)	119/1
Did not bat Nasser Hussain, Graham Thorpe, John Crawley, Mark Ealham, Robert Croft, Darren Gough, Andy Caddick, Devon Malcolm
Fall of wickets 1-29 (Mark Butcher)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Glenn McGrath	7	1	42	0	6.00	-	0	0
Michael Kasprowicz	7	0	42	1	6.00	-	0	0
Shane Warne	7.3	0	27	0	3.60	-	0	0

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Close of Play

Thu, 05 Jun

day 1 - England 1st innings 200/3 (Nasser Hussain 80*, Graham Thorpe 83*)

Fri, 06 Jun

day 2 - England 1st innings 449/6 (Mark Ealham 32*, Robert Croft 18*)

Sat, 07 Jun

day 3 - Australia 2nd innings 256/1 (Mark Taylor 108*, Greg Blewett 61*)

Sun, 08 Jun

day 4 - England 2nd innings 119/1 (21.3 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

A thunderstorm stopped play for 50 minutes with Australia on 399/5.

Bevan was the runner for Gillespie and was involved in the mixup in Gillespie's run out.

Match Details

GroundEdgbaston, Birmingham

TossAustralia, elected to bat first

Series

Australia tour of England and Scotland

Season1997

Player Of The Match

Series resultEngland led the 6-match series 1-0

Match numberTest no. 1368

Match daysday (5-day match)

Test debut

Umpires

TV Umpire

Match Referee

Ranjan Madugalle

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