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England
v Australia⁠

Result

Australia won by 7 wickets

England
247 (49.5 ov)
Australia
248/3 (47.2 ov)
Date
Sunday 8 April 2007 · England in 2007
Venue
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound

Last checked 24 October 2026

Scorecard

England v Australia ODI scorecard

England won the toss and chose to bat

England · Innings 247 all out (49.5 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Ian Bell c MEK Hussey b GD McGrath 77 90 9 0 85.6
Michael Vaughan b SW Tait 5 8 1 0 62.5
Andrew Strauss b SW Tait 7 10 0 0 70.0
Kevin Pietersen c MJ Clarke b NW Bracken 104 122 6 1 85.2
Paul Collingwood c AC Gilchrist b SW Tait 2 5 0 0 40.0
Andrew Flintoff st AC Gilchrist b GB Hogg 4 19 0 0 21.1
Ravi Bopara c MEK Hussey b NW Bracken 21 36 2 0 58.3
Paul Nixon c BJ Hodge b GD McGrath 8 6 0 1 133.3
Sajid Mahmood c BJ Hodge b NW Bracken 0 2 0 0 0.0
Monty Panesar not out 1* 2 0 0 50.0
James Anderson lbw b GD McGrath 0 1 0 0 0.0
Extras (b 4, lb 4, w 7, nb 3) 18
Total 49.5 overs 247

Fall of wickets: 1-10 (MP Vaughan, 3.2 ov), 2-24 (AJ Strauss, 5.6 ov), 3-164 (IR Bell, 29.3 ov), 4-167 (PD Collingwood, 30.3 ov), 5-179 (A Flintoff, 35.3 ov), 6-230 (RS Bopara, 46.2 ov), 7-240 (KP Pietersen, 48.4 ov), 8-240 (SI Mahmood, 48.6 ov), 9-246 (PA Nixon, 49.2 ov), 10-247 (JM Anderson, 49.5 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
NW Bracken 10 1 33 3 3.30 1 0
SW Tait 10 0 41 3 4.10 3 2
GD McGrath 9.5 0 62 3 6.31 1 0
MJ Clarke 4 0 27 0 6.75 0 0
GB Hogg 10 0 36 1 3.60 1 0
A Symonds 6 0 40 0 6.67 0 0

Australia · Innings 248/3 (47.2 overs)

Australia · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
AC Gilchrist c PD Collingwood b A Flintoff 27 37 5 0 73.0
ML Hayden b PD Collingwood 41 50 6 0 82.0
RT Ponting run out (PD Collingwood) 86 106 11 0 81.1
MJ Clarke not out 55* 63 2 0 87.3
A Symonds not out 28* 28 4 1 100.0
Extras (b 1, lb 5, w 5, nb 0) 11
Total 47.2 overs 248/3

Did not bat: MEK Hussey, BJ Hodge, GB Hogg, NW Bracken, SW Tait, GD McGrath

Fall of wickets: 1-57 (AC Gilchrist, 10.6 ov), 2-89 (ML Hayden, 19.1 ov), 3-201 (RT Ponting, 40.1 ov)

Australia · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
James Anderson 10 1 49 0 4.90 3 0
Sajid Mahmood 9.2 1 60 0 6.43 1 0
Andrew Flintoff 10 1 35 1 3.50 0 0
Monty Panesar 9 0 48 0 5.33 0 0
Paul Collingwood 9 0 50 1 5.56 1 0

Player of the match: SW Tait · Umpires: BF Bowden, RE Koertzen · TV umpire: Asad Rauf · 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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2007 – 2007

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Meetings162In our results database
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