It was the 1726th ODI in cricket history

Rajneesh Gupta22-Jun-2001

• It was the 1726th ODI in cricket history.
• It was Australia’s 486th and England’s 331st match.
• It was the 70th match between these two sides. The record now reads :
  Australia 37,England 31,tied one and abandoned one.

• Umpires David Constant and George Sharp were officiating in their 33rd
  and 24th match respectively.

• Robert Croft and Alan Mullally were playing their 50th match. They
  became 21st and 22nd Englishman to reach this milestone. A total of
  232 players have now made 50 or more appearances in shorter version of
  the game.

• Glenn McGrath has now taken 28 wickets in 17 matches in England which
  equals the Shane Warne’s record for Australia. Incidentally West
  Indian Andy Roberts with 26 wickets from 21 games holds the record of
  most wickets by a visiting player in England.

• Gilchrist’s innings (80) was the highest by an Australian wicketkeeper
  against England . This obliterated Richard Robinson’s 70 at this same
  ground on June 6,1977.It was also the third highest innings by a
  wicketkeeper against England in all matches after Sri Lankan Romesh
  Kaluwitharana’s 102* at Colombo SSC on March 27,2001 and West Indian
  Junior Murray’s 86 at this same ground on May 26,1995.

• Australia won the match with 119 balls to spare. This was the
  England’s third heaviest defeat in terms of balls spared by the
  opposing side while achieving the winning target. Interestingly all
  the three instances have come against Australia. The accompanying
  table lists England’s worst such defeats :
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Balls	Winner	Total	Loser	Total	Venue	Date
  188	Aus	94-6	Eng	93	Headingley	18-06-1975
  147	Aus	95-4	Eng	94	Melbourne	07-02-1979
  119	Aus	177-2	Eng	176	The Oval	21-06-2001
  102	Pak	84-2	Eng	81-9	Edgbaston	03-09-1974
  97	SL	166-0	Eng	165-9	Colombo (SSC)	27-03-2001
  88	SL	183-2	Eng	180	Moratuwa	20-03-1993
  84	WI	207-4	Eng	202-8	Scarborough	26-08-1976
  76	WI	190-2	Eng	189-9	The Oval	07-09-1973

  • England has now suffered defeat in 11 consecutive matches. England’s
    last win in an ODI had come in the first match of three match series
    against Pakistan at Karachi on October 24,2000 while chasing a target
    of 300 plus. England then lost the remaining two matches on that
    series, lost all three against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka and then six in
    a row in this NatWest Series.

  • Australia has now beaten England in seven matches in a row since the
    Carlton & United World Series Cup match at Adelaide on January
    26,1999. It is Australia’s best run against England. The previous best
    winning streak for Australia against England was of five matches from
    June 6,1981 to January 23,1983. However it is still not a record in
    Australia-England matches. England had beaten Australia in eight
    consecutive matches from December 8,1979 to June 4,1981.

  • England bowed out of the series without registering a win despite
    playing as many as six games. The only other similar instance of
    England not winning a game in a competition comprising of at least
    three teams (excluding those played on knock out basis) had come in
    1984-85 World Championship of Cricket in Australia when England lost
    all its three matches.
  • Ricky Ponting was winning his 11th Man of the Match award – his second
    against England.