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Rajneesh Gupta11-Jun-2001It 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 :
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 andeighth in his ODI career. His previous highest against England was 75*at Melbourne on 15-01-1999England 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 to23-01-1983Ricky Ponting was winning his tenth Man of the Match award – hissecond in successive matches.