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England men · ODI · International series

Australia
v England⁠

Result

England won by 4 wickets

Australia
252
England
253/6
Date
Friday 9 February 2007 · England in 2007
Venue
Melbourne
Competition
ODI · International series

Last checked 21 October 2026

Scorecard

Australia v England ODI scorecard

Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Australia · Innings 252 all out (48.3 overs)

Australia · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
AC Gilchrist c A Flintoff b SI Mahmood 5 10 0 0 50.0
ML Hayden c SI Mahmood b JWM Dalrymple 82 102 7 0 80.4
RT Ponting c PD Collingwood b MS Panesar 75 75 7 0 100.0
MJ Clarke run out (PD Collingwood) 33 39 0 1 84.6
BJ Hodge lbw b MS Panesar 5 10 0 0 50.0
MEK Hussey c PA Nixon b A Flintoff 17 19 1 0 89.5
SR Watson c IR Bell b SI Mahmood 9 13 0 0 69.2
GB Hogg c IR Bell b A Flintoff 10 11 1 0 90.9
B Lee run out (PD Collingwood) 0 5 0 0 0.0
NW Bracken not out 3* 5 0 0 60.0
GD McGrath b A Flintoff 0 2 0 0 0.0
Extras (b 0, lb 4, w 9, nb 0) 13
Total 48.3 overs 252

Fall of wickets: 1-32 (AC Gilchrist, 5.3 ov), 2-170 (RT Ponting, 30.1 ov), 3-180 (ML Hayden, 33.2 ov), 4-196 (BJ Hodge, 36.5 ov), 5-229 (MJ Clarke, 42.2 ov), 6-229 (MEK Hussey, 42.3 ov), 7-248 (GB Hogg, 46.1 ov), 8-248 (B Lee, 46.6 ov), 9-250 (SR Watson, 47.4 ov), 10-252 (GD McGrath, 48.3 ov)

Australia · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
Liam Plunkett 10 0 56 0 5.60 4 0
Sajid Mahmood 8 0 45 2 5.63 2 0
Andrew Flintoff 9.3 1 41 3 4.32 2 0
Monty Panesar 10 0 44 2 4.40 0 0
Paul Collingwood 4 0 21 0 5.25 0 0
Jamie Dalrymple 7 0 41 1 5.86 1 0

England · Innings 253/6 (49.3 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Ed Joyce c GD McGrath b B Lee 6 18 1 0 33.3
MB Loye lbw b B Lee 0 6 0 0 0.0
Ian Bell b B Lee 65 90 3 0 72.2
Andrew Strauss lbw b NW Bracken 0 2 0 0 0.0
Paul Collingwood not out 120* 133 7 1 90.2
Andrew Flintoff c AC Gilchrist b SR Watson 35 36 0 1 97.2
Jamie Dalrymple run out (MJ Clarke/GD McGrath) 3 5 0 0 60.0
Paul Nixon not out 11* 10 0 0 110.0
Extras (b 0, lb 3, w 7, nb 3) 13
Total 49.3 overs 253/6

Did not bat: LE Plunkett, SI Mahmood, MS Panesar

Fall of wickets: 1-1 (MB Loye, 2.2 ov), 2-14 (EC Joyce, 4.6 ov), 3-15 (AJ Strauss, 5.4 ov), 4-148 (IR Bell, 32.6 ov), 5-222 (A Flintoff, 45.2 ov), 6-225 (JWM Dalrymple, 46.1 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
B Lee 10 0 41 3 4.10 3 1
NW Bracken 8.3 1 38 1 4.47 0 0
GD McGrath 10 0 53 0 5.30 0 1
SR Watson 8 0 51 1 6.38 0 1
GB Hogg 10 0 52 0 5.20 2 0
MJ Clarke 3 0 15 0 5.00 2 0

Player of the match: Paul Collingwood · Umpires: Asad Rauf, DJ Harper · TV umpire: RL Parry · Match referee: MJ Procter. Scorecard from ball-by-ball data by Cricsheet (opens in a new tab), used under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (opens in a new tab). Names as Cricsheet writes them; England players link to their profiles.

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