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England men · ODI · International series

England
v Australia⁠

Result

Australia won by 4 runs

England
256/8
Australia
260/5
Date
Friday 4 September 2009 · England in 2009
Venue
The Oval, London
Competition
ODI · International series

Last checked 21 October 2026

Scorecard

England v Australia ODI scorecard

England won the toss and chose to field

Australia · Innings 260/5 (50 overs)

Australia · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
SR Watson c & b PD Collingwood 46 50 6 0 92.0
TD Paine run out (PD Collingwood) 0 6 0 0 0.0
CL White run out (GP Swann/MJ Prior) 53 71 7 0 74.6
MJ Clarke c OA Shah b PD Collingwood 45 72 3 0 62.5
CJ Ferguson not out 71* 75 5 0 94.7
MEK Hussey b RJ Sidebottom 20 15 3 0 133.3
JR Hopes not out 18* 11 1 0 163.6
Extras (b 0, lb 3, w 4, nb 0) 7
Total 50 overs 260/5

Did not bat: MG Johnson, B Lee, NM Hauritz, NW Bracken

Fall of wickets: 1-11 (TD Paine, 2.6 ov), 2-93 (SR Watson, 18.5 ov), 3-111 (CL White, 24.2 ov), 4-190 (MJ Clarke, 42.3 ov), 5-237 (MEK Hussey, 47.2 ov)

Australia · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
James Anderson 7 0 35 0 5.00 1 0
Stuart Broad 9 1 52 0 5.78 0 0
Ryan Sidebottom 7 0 48 1 6.86 3 0
Luke Wright 1 0 9 0 9.00 0 0
Adil Rashid 10 0 37 0 3.70 0 0
Paul Collingwood 9 0 47 2 5.22 0 0
Graeme Swann 7 0 29 0 4.14 0 0

England · Innings 256/8 (50 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Andrew Strauss c CL White b B Lee 12 14 2 0 85.7
Ravi Bopara st TD Paine b NM Hauritz 49 88 3 0 55.7
Matt Prior c MG Johnson b NM Hauritz 28 47 2 0 59.6
Owais Shah hit wicket b MG Johnson 40 48 4 0 83.3
Paul Collingwood c SR Watson b MG Johnson 23 39 1 0 59.0
Luke Wright run out (TD Paine) 38 27 4 1 140.7
Stuart Broad c MJ Clarke b MG Johnson 2 5 0 0 40.0
Adil Rashid not out 31* 23 4 0 134.8
Graeme Swann c TD Paine b SR Watson 4 5 0 0 80.0
Ryan Sidebottom not out 13* 7 2 0 185.7
Extras (b 3, lb 0, w 10, nb 3) 16
Total 50 overs 256/8

Did not bat: JM Anderson

Fall of wickets: 1-22 (AJ Strauss, 4.3 ov), 2-83 (MJ Prior, 20.1 ov), 3-124 (RS Bopara, 28.3 ov), 4-161 (OA Shah, 37.3 ov), 5-168 (PD Collingwood, 39.5 ov), 6-178 (SCJ Broad, 41.3 ov), 7-224 (LJ Wright, 46.5 ov), 8-229 (GP Swann, 47.4 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
B Lee 9 0 65 1 7.22 2 3
NW Bracken 10 0 48 0 4.80 0 0
MG Johnson 7 0 24 3 3.43 2 0
JR Hopes 5 1 14 0 2.80 0 0
NM Hauritz 9 0 44 2 4.89 4 0
MJ Clarke 4 0 18 0 4.50 0 0
SR Watson 6 0 40 1 6.67 2 0

Player of the match: CJ Ferguson · Umpires: AL Hill, NJ Llong · TV umpire: PJ Hartley · Match referee: RS Mahanama. 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.

Men's senior internationals · Newest first

The 5 meetings before this one

2007 – 2007

01 8 Apr 2007
ODI · ICC Cricket World Cup · Super 8 Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound

England 247 (49.5 ov) – 248/3 (47.2 ov) Australia England lost

Australia won by 7 wickets

Match page: England v Australia, 8 April 2007

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