Flintoff & Botham

Monday, November 20, 2006

12 Australia 1978-9 (1/6 away) and India 2001 (3/3 away)

Botham delivered a solid all-round performance with 6 wickets and 49 runs in his only innings, as England ran out winners by 7 wickets. Yallop scored 100 in his first match as Australian captain, but Australia's first three batsmen (Wood, Cosier and Toohey) contributed only 29 runs in the match, which ended up being the difference between the two sides.

The scorecard is accessible below:
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/engine/match/63220.html

Wisden's report is accessible below:
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152180.html


Flintoff failed again with the bat, with a duck in England's only innings. However, he managed to take 4/50, opening the bowling in India's only innings and was named man of the match. England secured a first innings lead of nearly a hundred, but with no play possible on the last day and only 16 overs bowled in the fourth, the game was drawn.

The scorecard is available below:
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/engine/match/63963.htmle

This game wil be remembered for the controversial dismissal of Vaughan, out handled the ball when it was going nowhere near the stumps. Wisden quote Hussain as diplomatically admitting that he would have appealed 9 times out of 10. The full match report is available below:
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154980.html

Hussain used negative tactics to try and bridge the talent gap between his bowlers and batsmen like Tendulkar, leading the more sensible reporters to demand that umpires call more wides in test cricket.

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