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

12/05/2025 00:00

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 20thand sixth match respectively.
Karachi born Owais Shah became 163rd player to represent England inODIs.
The two wickets in this match has taken Darren Gough’s tally to 58 inthe matches in England – more than any one else. Gough was earlier atlevel with 56 wickets with Ian Botham. The accompanying table liststhe leading bowlers on English soil :

Ricky Ponting (102) scored his first hundred against England andeighth 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 inODIs. It had lost 8 consecutive matches from 25-10-1989 to 23-05-1990.England also had three other sequences of defeat in seven consecutivematches .Incidentally the ODI record of most consecutive defeats isheld by Bangladesh who lost 22 matches before registering its maidenvictory against Kenya at Hyderabad on 17-05-1998.
The defeat was England’s fifth in as many matches against Australiawhich equalled its worst run against Australia. England had also lostfive consecutive matches against Australia from 06-06-1981 to23-01-1983
Ricky Ponting was winning his tenth Man of the Match award – hissecond in successive matches.