- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR7.3 Hughes has been tested with a fair few short ones and has looked anything but the run machine he was at Middlesex ⊠finally Harmison gets him, banging one in, Hughes doesn't get over it, getting in a complete tangle, and gloves the ball to gully. Harmison , touching 90mph consistently, looks like the 2005 version ⊠19/110.2 a roar from the crowd as Ponting aims a loose swish at a short wide ball, one he could easily have left, and a thick edge is easily held by Solanki at first slip. "A stinky dismissal" laments an Australian colleague. 24/295.1 gone! Superb bowling from Harmison, full and swings in late to beat Hussey's drive and an excellent innings comes to an end 348/945.1 Bresnan bowls a full ball outside off stump and swings it away from the right-hander, Clarke moves forward and tries to drive the ball through cover, the outswing forces him to reach out for it away from his body and he slices it straight to Adil Rashid at point 185/446.1 he's played on! North stays in his crease before moving half forward, he plays hesitantly as if he's thinking about leaving it but prods at the ball in the end, it takes the inside edge on to his stumps 186/549.5 lbw! Bresnan pitches the ball outside off and slants it into Haddin who plays from his crease and gets hit on the pad, he tried to play across the line but missed, that ball looked like it was missing leg stump though 197/678.4 after a few slower bouncers Bresnan bangs in the quicker one, Johnson is late in going for the pull and gloves the ball to Davies 306/781.4 bowled him! Harmison bowls a full ball which pitches on middle before seaming away from the right-hander, Lee tries to play the ball on the leg side but gets beaten by the movement 315/896.4 goes for a wild pull, but the ball was a too wide of off stump and he sends a high catch to point 358/10Extras19 (b 6, lb 10, nb 3)TOTAL358 all out (96.4 Overs, RR: 3.7)Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Phillip Hughes, 7.3 ov), 2-24 (Ricky Ponting, 10.2 ov), 3-165 (Simon Katich, 39.5 ov), 4-185 (Michael Clarke, 45.1 ov), 5-186 (Marcus North, 46.1 ov), 6-197 (Brad Haddin, 49.5 ov), 7-306 (Mitchell Johnson, 78.4 ov), 8-315 (Brett Lee, 81.4 ov), 9-348 (Michael Hussey, 95.1 ov), 10-358 (Nathan Hauritz, 96.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB G Onions 23.4 3 70 3 2.95 0 0 SJ Harmison 25 3 80 4 3.20 0 0 TT Bresnan 17 1 46 3 2.70 0 0 SI Mahmood 17 2 74 0 4.35 0 3 AU Rashid 14 1 72 0 5.14 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR44.3 finally! Australia make the breakthrough as Lee strikes in his comeback over, finding some late swing and crashes one through Denly who is caught on the crease 172/156.1 goes! A bouncer works this time and what a great spell from Lee. He bangs in it and Moore sizes up the pull, but the top-edge flies backward of square where Brad Haddin makes plenty of ground to take a superb catch 209/444.4 two in two, how the game changes! Full and more late swing, Bell plants his front leg across the stumps and is taken on the pad. The umpire says that will take middle and leg. So after an opening stand of 172, Bell goes first ball. 172/252.4 well bowled! More reverse swing for Lee and Solanki's high back-lift does for him, he can't get down in time and the ball goes from pad into off stump 198/357 gone again! More brilliant fast, late, reverse swing from Lee and Morgan is trapped in front of leg my a tracer-bullet of a delivery. It speared in towards Morgan's toes and he couldn't get his feet out of the line. That was plumb. Lee on fire and he's booked his Test place 209/577.2 tossed up delivery, hint of turn - Davies goes back looking to cut it away but ends up with a thick edge and the ball goes straight to Clarke at first slip. 295/693.3 caught! Rashid's slashed several through and over the point region but this time he cuts it hard but straight to the fielder 344/986 bowled him! And that's Johnson's first wicket of the game, he angled a short of a length delivery across Bresnan who hung his bat out at the ball, it cannoned off his inside edge on to his stumps 315/786.3 oh he's been bowled! Lee fires in a short ball, forcing Mahmood to duck in a hurry, Mahmood isn't quick enough and the ball thuds into his shoulder before bouncing over him and pitching once before going on to the stumps 316/8Extras15 (b 5, lb 2, nb 8)TOTAL352 all out (96 Overs, RR: 3.66)Fall of wickets: 1-172 (Joe Denly, 44.3 ov), 2-172 (Ian Bell, 44.4 ov), 3-198 (Vikram Solanki, 52.4 ov), 4-209 (Stephen Moore, 56.1 ov), 5-209 (Eoin Morgan, 56.6 ov), 6-295 (Steven Davies, 77.2 ov), 7-315 (Tim Bresnan, 85.6 ov), 8-316 (Sajid Mahmood, 86.3 ov), 9-344 (Adil Rashid, 93.3 ov), 10-352 (Graham Onions, 95.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB MG Johnson 26 1 118 1 4.53 0 6 B Lee 27 6 76 6 2.81 0 0 SR Clark 16 2 40 2 2.50 0 0 NM Hauritz 18 1 80 0 4.44 0 2 MJ Clarke 4 0 15 0 3.75 0 0 MJ North 5 1 16 1 3.20 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR5.5 gone! Harmison bounces out Hughes for the second time in the match, round the wicket and the short ball is right on target. All Hughes can do is fend off into the slips and he's been worked out in this match 17/1Extras20 (b 11, lb 8, nb 1)TOTAL438/4d (103 Overs, RR: 4.25)Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Phillip Hughes, 5.5 ov), 2-41 (Ricky Ponting, 11.1 ov), 3-90 (Simon Katich, 29.2 ov), 4-260 (Michael Clarke, 68.1 ov), 4-365* (Michael Hussey, retired not out )
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB G Onions 19 2 74 0 3.89 0 0 SJ Harmison 17 3 55 2 3.23 0 0 SI Mahmood 18 2 56 0 3.11 0 1 TT Bresnan 18 6 60 0 3.33 0 0 AU Rashid 22 2 109 1 4.95 0 0 VS Solanki 5 0 32 1 6.40 0 0 JL Denly 4 0 33 0 8.25 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR14.2 Johnson goes around the wicket, cramping Denly for room, and he gets a thin edge while coming forward onto the front foot. Great comeback by Johnson after being hit for four 62/24.5 outside off, he goes for a flashing drive, the ball flies to Ponting's right at second slip who takes a sharp chance 29/127.5 and Bell departs! Hauritz finally has a wicket, bowling a straight line and that's a superb catch by Katich at short-leg, diving to his right and Bell is gutted 105/332.3 what a ball! A late reverse-swinging delivery at 92mph plucks out Solanki's middle stump, his feet shuffling to leg to avoid being crushed. Fantastic delivery 115/4Extras16 (b 4, lb 11, nb 1)TOTAL162/4 (47.2 Overs, RR: 3.42)Fall of wickets: 1-29 (Stephen Moore, 4.5 ov), 2-62 (Joe Denly, 14.2 ov), 3-105 (Ian Bell, 27.5 ov), 4-115 (Vikram Solanki, 32.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB MG Johnson 9 2 48 2 5.33 0 1 B Lee 8 1 38 1 4.75 0 0 SR Clark 8 2 11 0 1.37 0 0 MJ North 5 0 17 0 3.40 0 0 NM Hauritz 12.2 4 22 1 1.78 0 0 SM Katich 5 0 11 0 2.20 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Australians , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
11am start, Lunch 13.00-13.40, Tea 15.40-16.00, Close 18.00
Match days
1,2,3,4 July 2009 (4-day match)
Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Close of Play
- Wed, 1 Jul - day 1 - Australians 1st innings 337/8 (MEK Hussey 143*, NM Hauritz 7*, 90 ov)
- Thu, 2 Jul - day 2 - England Lions 1st innings 302/6 (AU Rashid 36*, TT Bresnan 0*, 81 ov)
- Fri, 3 Jul - day 3 - Australians 2nd innings 276/4 (MJ North 106*, MEK Hussey 11*, 73 ov)
- Sat, 4 Jul - day 4 - England Lions 2nd innings 162/4 (47.2 ov) - end of match
Match Notes
- Australians: 300 runs in 80.4 overs, Extras 19
- MEK Hussey: 50 off 52 balls, (5x4,1x6)
- Australians: 350 runs in 91.3 overs, Extras 19
- MEK Hussey (2) retired hurt at 365/4 (62 not out off 69 overs)
- MJ North 150 in 356 mins off 259 balls, 18 fours.
- Australians: 400 runs in 98.2 overs, Extras 20
- Lunch: Australians-438/4 in 103 overs (MJ North 191, Haddin 25)
- England Lions 2nd innings
- England Lions: 50 runs in 9.5 overs, Extras 4
- England Lions: 100 runs in 25.1 overs, Extras 7
- Tea: England Lions-105/3 (VS Solanki 26)
- England Lions: 150 runs in 40.6 overs, Extras 15
- AU Rashid: 50 off 89 balls (7x4), 129 mins
- England Lions: 350 runs in 95.1 overs, Extras 15
- Australians 2nd innings
- Lunch: Australians-24/1 in 8 overs (SM Katich 8, RT Ponting 5)
- Australians: 50 runs in 13.2 overs, Extras 5
- Australians: 100 runs in 29.6 overs, Extras 10
- Tea: Australians-140/3 in 37 overs (MJ North 39, MJ Clarke 27)
- Australians: 150 runs in 42.3 overs, Extras 14
- MJ North: 50 off 102 balls, (6x4), 136 mins
- MJ Clarke: 50 off 91 balls, (6x4), 112 mins
- Australians: 200 runs in 57.3 overs, Extras 16
- MJ North 100 in 234 mins off 168 balls, 13 fours.
- Australains: 250 runs in 67.2 overs, Extras 19
- MEK Hussey 150 off 227 balls (19x4), 348 mins
- Australians: 350 runs in 95.2 overs, Extras 19
- England Lions 1st innings
- England Lions 50 runs in 14.4 overs, Extras 7
- England Lions 100 runs in 29.4 overs
- SC Moore: 50 off 99 balls (6x4), 133 mins
- JL Denly: 50 off 109 balls (7x4), 163 mins
- England Lions: 150 runs in 39.4 overs, Extras 9
- SC Moore 100 in 200 mins off 147 balls, 14 fours and 2 sixes.
- England Lions: 200 runs in 53.4 overs, Extras 11
- England Lions: 250 runs in 69.2 overs, Extras 13
- SM Davies: 50 off 63 balls (7x4), 78 mins
- England Lions: 300 runs in 80.3 overs, Extras 15
- Australians 1st innings
- Drinks: Australians - 35/2 in 14.0 overs (SM Katich 20, MEK Hussey 2)
- Australians: 50 runs in 16.6 overs (103 balls), Extras 6
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 86 balls (SM Katich 24, MEK Hussey 25, Ex 1)
- Australians: 100 runs in 28.3 overs (172 balls), Extras 6
- SM Katich: 50 off 87 balls (8 x 4), 114 mins
- Lunch: Australians - 106/2 in 29.0 overs (SM Katich 55, MEK Hussey 37)
- 3rd Wicket: 100 runs in 138 balls (SM Katich 59, MEK Hussey 43, Ex 1)
- MEK Hussey: 50 off 70 balls (6 x 4), 101 mins
- Australians: 150 runs in 38.1 overs (230 balls), Extras 6
- Drinks: Australians - 177/3 in 43.0 overs (MEK Hussey 65, MJ Clarke 3)
- Australians: 200 runs in 52.5 overs, Extras 8
- Tea: Australians - 215/6 in 55.0 overs (MEK Hussey 82, MG Johnson 10)
- MEK Hussey 100 in 223 mins off 153 balls, 15 fours.
- Australians: 250 runs in 64.2 overs, Extras 9
- Australians: 300 runs in 77.2 overs, Extras 15
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