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England v Australia ODI Series 2012 – 4th ODI
England v Australia
Sat 7 Jul 2012, 10:45am BST, 10:45am local
England win by 8 wickets
| Australia | 200-9 (50 ovs) |
|---|---|
| England | 201-2 (47.5 ovs) |
commentary
Over 48. 5 runs. Bowler: David Hussey. England: 201/2(rr 4.19)
Hussey to Bopara. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot driving, well timed to deep backward point for 3 runs, fielded by Pattinson. This game has felt as if it had been decided a long time ago. England take an unassailable 3-0 lead in this 5 match series and were very good value for it. Australia simply got outplayed in every department and losing the toss was not a good start for them. David Hussey batted well for the tourists whilst Finn bowled impressively for England whilst Trott and Bell did very well with the bat for the hosts. The final match of the series moves to Old Trafford on Tuesday.
Hussey to Bopara. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the back foot pushing, to extra cover for no runs.
Hussey to Bopara. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot Fended, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Wade.
Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot working, well timed to mid wicket for 1 run.
Hussey to Bopara. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, to cover for 1 run, fielded by Pattinson.
Over 47. 3 runs. Bowler: Michael Clarke. England: 196/2(rr 4.17)
APPEAL! Verified by umpire after REFERRAL. Clarke to Trott. Stock length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Wade, appeal made for Stumped. Trott was easily inside his crease.
Clarke to Bopara. Stock length ball, outside off stump on the back foot pulling, well timed in the air under control to deep mid wicket for 1 run, fielded by Pattinson.
Clarke to Bopara. Stock length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, to cover for no runs.
Clarke to Trott. Stock length ball, middle stump on the front foot working, to fine leg for 1 run, fielded by McKay.
Clarke to Bopara. Stock length ball, outside off stump on the back foot working, to mid wicket for 1 run.
APPEAL! Clarke to Bopara. Stock length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Wade, appeal made for Stumped.
Over 46. 11 runs. Bowler: David Hussey. England: 193/2(rr 4.20)
Hussey to Bopara. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the back foot pushing, to long on for 1 run.
FOUR! Hussey to Bopara. Off break full toss, outside off stump on the front foot driving, well timed past deep mid wicket for 4 runs.
Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot sweeping, well timed to short fine leg for 1 run, fielded by McKay.
Hussey to Bopara. Off break half volley, off stump on the front foot working, to deep mid wicket for 1 run, fielded by Forrest.
Hussey to Bopara. Off break length ball, off stump on the front foot defending, back to bowler for no runs, fielded by Hussey.
FOUR! Hussey to Bopara. Off break back of a length, outside off stump on the back foot pulling, well timed past long on for 4 runs.
Over 45. 1 run. Bowler: James Pattinson. England: 182/2(rr 4.04)
Pattinson to Bopara. Back of a length, outside off stump on the back foot cutting, inside edge to square leg for 1 run. Pattinson has completed his overs and he certainly didn't disgrace himself but it is fair to say he wasn't the most threatening in this match.
Pattinson to Bopara. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Wade.
Pattinson to Bopara. Length ball, off stump on the front foot pushing, to mid on for no runs, fielded by Bailey.
Pattinson to Bopara. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, to mid on for no runs, fielded by Bailey.
Pattinson to Bopara. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot driving, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Wade.
Pattinson to Bopara. Half volley, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, to mid on for no runs, fielded by Bailey.
Over 44. 6 runs. Bowler: David Hussey. England: 181/2(rr 4.11)
Hussey to Trott. Off break yorker, outside off stump on the front foot driving, back to bowler for no runs, fielded by Hussey.
Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot driving, well timed to deep mid wicket for 2 runs, fielded by Forrest.
Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, middle stump on the back foot working, well timed to mid wicket for no runs.
Hussey to Bopara. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the back foot pushing, well timed to long on for 1 run.
Hussey to Bopara. Off break back of a length, off stump on the back foot pulling, well timed to deep mid wicket for 2 runs, fielded by Forrest.
Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, outside off stump backing away cutting, well timed to deep cover for 1 run, fielded by Pattinson.
Over 43. 3 runs. Bowler: Michael Clarke. England: 175/2(rr 4.07)
Clarke to Bopara. Stock length ball, off stump on the back foot pushing, back to bowler for no runs, fielded by Clarke.
Clarke to Trott. Stock length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, to deep backward point for 1 run, fielded by McKay.
Clarke to Bopara. Stock length ball, outside off stump on the back foot cutting, well timed to deep cover for 1 run, fielded by McKay.
Clarke to Bopara. Stock ball full toss, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, well timed to cover for no runs, fielded by Hussey.
Clarke to Bopara. Stock length ball, outside off stump backing away pushing, well timed to extra cover for no runs.
Clarke to Trott. Stock length ball, outside off stump on the front foot sweeping, well timed to fine leg for 1 run, fielded by Hilfenhaus.
Over 42. 10 runs. Bowler: David Hussey. England: 172/2(rr 4.10)
Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, off stump on the front foot sweeping, to fine leg for 1 run, fielded by McKay.
Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, to cover for no runs.
APPEAL! Verified by umpire after REFERRAL. Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, wide down leg side on the front foot sweeping, missed for no runs, fielded by Hilfenhaus, appeal made for Stumped. Not even close, suprising it even made it to the third umpire.
Hussey to Bopara. Off break half volley, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, well timed to deep cover for 3 runs, fielded by Pattinson.
Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, off stump on the front foot pushing, well timed to long on for 1 run.
Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, outside off stump on the front foot driving, well timed to deep cover for 2 runs, fielded by Pattinson.
Hussey to Trott. Off break length ball, to leg on the front foot sweeping, top edge in the air uncontrolled to fine leg for 2 runs, fielded by Clarke.
Over 41. 5 runs. Bowler: James Pattinson. England: 162/2(rr 3.95)
FOUR! Pattinson to Bopara. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot driving, inside edge past fine leg for 4 runs.
Pattinson to Bopara. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot working, well timed to mid wicket for no runs, fielded by Hilfenhaus.
Pattinson to Trott. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot working, well timed to mid on for 1 run, fielded by Forrest. Trott reaches his half century, a typical Trott innings. Oozing with class.
Pattinson to Trott. Yorker, outside off stump on the front foot defending, to slips for no runs, fielded by Clarke.
Pattinson to Trott. Yorker, outside off stump on the front foot defending, to gully for no runs, fielded by Clarke.
Pattinson to Trott. Short, outside off stump ducked, to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Wade.
Over 40. Power Play Batting. 2 runs. Bowler: Ben Hilfenhaus. England: 157/2(rr 3.92)
Hilfenhaus to Bopara. Seaming away length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, missed to wicketkeeper for no runs, fielded by Wade. It is all a bit flat at the moment and that suits England perfectly. They are cruising to their victory target of 201.
Hilfenhaus to Bopara. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, to mid off for no runs.
Hilfenhaus to Bopara. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, well timed to mid on for no runs.
Hilfenhaus to Trott. Length ball, off stump on the front foot working, well timed to deep backward square leg for 1 run, fielded by McKay.
Hilfenhaus to Bopara. Length ball, off stump on the front foot pushing, mis-timed in the air uncontrolled to mid on for 1 run.
Hilfenhaus to Bopara. Length ball, middle stump on the front foot pushing, well timed to mid on for no runs, fielded by Bailey.
Over 39. Power Play Batting. 4 runs. Bowler: James Pattinson. England: 155/2(rr 3.97)
Pattinson to Trott. Full toss, outside off stump on the back foot cutting, well timed to cover for no runs, fielded by Hussey.
Pattinson to Trott. Full toss, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, to silly mid on for no runs, fielded by Forrest.
Pattinson to Trott. Half volley, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, well timed to extra cover for no runs.
Pattinson to Trott. Half volley, outside off stump on the front foot pushing, well timed to short extra cover for no runs.
Pattinson to Trott. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot Steer, well timed to slips for no runs, fielded by Clarke.
FOUR! Pattinson to Trott. Length ball, middle stump on the back foot pulling, well timed in the air under control past deep backward square leg for 4 runs.
England v Australia ODI Series 2012 – 4th ODI
England v Australia
Sat 7 Jul 2012, 10:45am BST, 10:45am local
England win by 8 wickets
| Australia | 200-9 (50 ovs) |
|---|---|
| England | 201-2 (47.5 ovs) |
match report
Steven Finn was on a hat-trick twice as his world-class fast bowling set up England's NatWest Series-clinching win over Australia.
Australia rarely had realistic prospects of a fightback in this fourth match of five at Chester-le-Street, despite a sterling 70 from David Hussey, after lurching to six for two.
They eventually mustered 200 for nine. But as conditions eased, and Australia's pace attack paled in comparison to England's, Ian Bell (69) and Jonathan Trott (64no) engineered a routine chase which was completed with 13 balls and eight wickets to spare to hand England a ninth successive one-day international victory.
Alastair Cook's team have therefore taken an unassailable 3-0 lead and wrapped up the series with a match still to come, at Old Trafford on Tuesday.
Bell took advantage of an increasingly benign surface, and the absence of scoreboard pressure, to collect nine fours from 94 balls - and Trott did the rest, in no particular hurry.
England's most significant contributions had come several hours earlier, though, starting when Cook won a telling toss to give Finn et al the first chance to bowl in near perfect conditions.
Finn (four for 37) was lethal with the new and older ball, and Ravi Bopara's part-time medium-pace was unplayable at times as a high water table and initial cloud cover made for exaggerated sideways movement off the seam and occasionally in the air.
Hussey and Michael Clarke dug in manfully nonetheless, and their 50 stands with Brett Lee and Shane Watson respectively mustered a total which was more substantial than had appeared likely.
England had reason to rue a clutch of close lbw calls which did not go their way, but did not help themselves either by putting down four catches - including Hussey twice, half-chances back to the bowler Bopara on 15 and to Bell in the deep on 29.
Opener David Warner needed 16 balls to get off the mark and had managed only to double that tally when he played across a full-length delivery from Finn and was hit on the pad.
Nigel Llong decided not out, but DRS vindicated England by demonstrating the ball pitched in line and would have hit middle-stump.
There was not even a passing doubt about Finn's second success as he pitched full again to Peter Forrest, who got nowhere with a hesitant forward push and was hit on the back pad for a first-ball duck.
Clarke survived a hat-trick ball which snaked back between bat and pad and was well taken high to his left by wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter.
First-change Tim Bresnan should have had the next wicket, and a big one too, when Clarke drove to Eoin Morgan at point on eight only for the Irishman to put down a straightforward catch.
The Australia captain escaped again on 31 when an edge at Stuart Broad just evaded a diving James Anderson at first slip - and England had no luck with lbw appeals against him, or Hussey on nought when a review was invested and lost on Bopara's inswinging yorker.
But Bopara had already bowled George Bailey with one that nipped away off the pitch and clipped the off-bail, while the batsman was aiming to leg, and Watson chopped on to Bresnan.
Finn returned to see off Clarke, after two hours of resistance, when he missed an off-drive and lost his off-stump.
Matthew Wade then went for a golden duck thanks to alarming late swing from Finn, a thin edge and a brilliant diving catch from Kieswetter to make it 96 for six.
Hussey, with a 62-ball 50, and Lee shared a determined seventh-wicket stand of 70. If Australia thought they had given themselves a chance, though, the illusion did not last long.
Bell and Cook put on a seamless opening stand of 70 until the captain poked a catch to cover off Clint McKay.
His partner had given a half-chance, high to second slip through Hussey's fingertips off James Pattinson on 21.
Otherwise, he was never troubled to continue his outstanding run of form - and when he edged McKay down on to his stumps, he had made a remarkable 364 runs in five innings since he was given another shot at ODI cricket by the shock retirement of Kevin Pietersen.
For good measure, Trott made himself the fourth quickest batsman in history to pass 2,000 ODI runs - on a day when Anderson had become only the second Englishman to take 500 international wickets.
They were milestones emblematic of England's well-being.
On the other side of the equation, it was symptomatic of Australia's winless tour that they were left awaiting medical prognoses on Lee and Watson after both limped out of the attack.
England v Australia ODI Series 2012 – 4th ODI
England v Australia
Sat 7 Jul 2012, 10:45am BST, 10:45am local
England win by 8 wickets
Australia innings
| runs | balls | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SR Watson | b TT Bresnan | 28 | 54 | 2 | 1 |
| DA Warner | lbw ST Finn | 2 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| PJ Forrest | lbw ST Finn | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| MJ Clarke | b ST Finn | 43 | 85 | 4 | 0 |
| GJ Bailey | b RS Bopara | 9 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| DJ Hussey | c JM Anderson b TT Bresnan | 70 | 73 | 9 | 0 |
| MS Wade | c C Kieswetter b ST Finn | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| B Lee | c SCJ Broad b JM Anderson | 27 | 41 | 2 | 1 |
| CJ McKay | c TT Bresnan b JM Anderson | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| JL Pattinson | not out | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| BW Hilfenhaus | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | 2lb, 4w, 1nb | 7 | |||
| Total | (50 ovs) | 200 | for 9 | ||
fow: 1-6 (DA Warner, 5.1 ov), 2-6 (PJ Forrest, 5.2 ov), 3-57 (SR Watson, 18.3 ov), 4-68 (GJ Bailey, 21.4 ov), 5-96 (MJ Clarke, 32.2 ov), 6-96 (MS Wade, 32.3 ov), 7-166 (B Lee, 45.2 ov), 8-174 (CJ McKay, 47.3 ov), 9-194 (DJ Hussey, 49.3 ov)
| ovs | mdns | runs | wkts | econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JM Anderson | 10.0 | 3 | 34 | 2 | 3.40 |
| ST Finn | 10.0 | 2 | 37 | 4 | 3.70 |
| TT Bresnan | 9.0 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 5.11 |
| SCJ Broad | 9.0 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 3.78 |
| RS Bopara | 9.0 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 3.22 |
| SR Patel | 3.0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 6.00 |
England innings
| runs | balls | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AN Cook | c sub b CJ McKay | 29 | 46 | 5 | 0 |
| IR Bell | b CJ McKay | 69 | 94 | 9 | 0 |
| IJL Trott | not out | 64 | 102 | 4 | 0 |
| RS Bopara | not out | 33 | 47 | 3 | 0 |
| Extras | 4w, 2nb | 6 | |||
| Total | (47.5 ovs) | 201 | for 2 | ||
did not bat: EJG Morgan, C Kieswetter, SR Patel, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, ST Finn, JM Anderson
fow: 1-70 (AN Cook, 16.3 ov), 2-136 (IR Bell, 32.3 ov)
| ovs | mdns | runs | wkts | econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B Lee | 2.2 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 5.14 |
| BW Hilfenhaus | 9.4 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 3.72 |
| CJ McKay | 10.0 | 1 | 29 | 2 | 2.90 |
| JL Pattinson | 10.0 | 1 | 46 | 0 | 4.60 |
| SR Watson | 1.0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 |
| MJ Clarke | 5.0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 3.40 |
| DJ Hussey | 8.5 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 5.43 |
| DA Warner | 1.0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 |
match details
toss: England won the toss and elected to bowl.
venue: Emirates Durham ICG, Chester-le-Street
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