1st Semi - Australia v England

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ODI # 2180
ICC Champions Trophy, 2004, 1st Semi Final
England v Australia
Edgbaston, Birmingham
21 September 2004 (50-over match)

Result:
Series:

Toss: England
Umpires: BF Bowden (NZ) and RE Koertzen (SA)
TV Umpire: Aleem Dar (Pak)
Match Referee: MJ Procter (SA)
Man of the Match:



Australia innings (50 overs maximum) R B 4 6
+AC Gilchrist c Trescothick b Gough 37 50 4 0
ML Hayden c Trescothick b Harmison 17 21 1 1
*RT Ponting not out 22 32 2 0
DR Martyn not out 15 24 2 0
Extras (lb 3, w 2, nb 2) 7
Total (2 wickets, 20.5 overs) 98

To Bat: A Symonds, DS Lehmann, MS Kasprowicz, B Lee,
JN Gillespie, GD McGrath, MJ Clarke.

FoW: 1-44 (Hayden, 7.6 ov), 2-69 (Gilchrist, 13.6 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Gough 5 1 29 1
Harmison 5 0 26 1 (2nb)
Flintoff 5 0 20 0
Giles 3 0 11 0 (2w)
Wharf 2.5 0 9 0

England team:
ME Trescothick, VS Solanki, *MP Vaughan, AJ Strauss, A Flintoff,
PD Collingwood, +GO Jones, AG Wharf, AF Giles, D Gough,
SJ Harmison.

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Brett Lee.

WHY?

[mjm28]

Aust 3/114 in 25th
Ponting just out for 29

I had a chuckle at the start of the coverage when they showed some footage of Symonds and said Australia's equivalent (mind spelling) of England's Andrew Flintoff. Make it the other way around you silly Poms. It's like Maguire commentating Pie matches.

[Mog]

I don't think either of them have done enough yet to deserve the hype around them, but they are equivalents.

[silky-smooth]

There is already a thread for this but anyways :D

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Australia 179/3 (36.0 ov)
England

England won the toss and elected to field first

Australia RR: 4.97

Recent Overs: 1 . . L1 4 1 | 1 4 1 B1 1 1 | 4 1 1 . . 4 | 1 1 Y. 1 1 1 1 |

DS Lehmann 35* (35)
DR Martyn 49* (71)

[red+black]

Yes there is a thread already. I disagree, I rate Flintoff very highly and his form warrants justifies the praise he has been receiving.

Credit where its due.

[silky-smooth]

Australia 238/6 (47.5 ov)
England

England won the toss and elected to field first

Australia RR: 4.98

Recent Overs: . 1 . 1 1 1 | 1 1 . 1 2 . | . 1 4 3 1 1 | . 1 . . 4

B Lee 10* (15)
MJ Clarke 30* (27)

Current Partnership: 28 runs, 5.1 overs, RR: 5.42

Last Wicket: 210/6 (42.4 ov); Partnership: 20 runs, 3.0 overs, RR: 6.67
DR Martyn c Trescothick b Vaughan 65 (91b 6x4 0x6) SR: 71.43

[silky-smooth]

stuff it... just go here: http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/NEW/LIVE/frames/AUS_ENG_ICCCT_ODI-SEMI1_21SEP2004.html

[BB gun]

We need a wicket. Martyn is a average in day cricket. The last couple of years he has been scoring so slowly

[Supermercado]

I've just walked in and turned on my television - can somebody explain to me how Brett Lee, the world's $hittest player - got a start?

Did Gillespie, McGrath or Kasprowicz die?

[Nel Mangle]

I had a chuckle at the start of the coverage when they showed some footage of Symonds and said Australia's equivalent (mind spelling) of England's Andrew Flintoff. .

Yeah funny comparison ,symonds aint fit to clean flintoffs jockstrap.



As for the result .I didnt expect to be so easy for us.
Didnt even have to break sweat .lmao

Taxi for australia .

[Superpom]

I wish you'd set us 300 or something, at least made a contest of it... ;)


Brett Lee - MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! :D :D


Australia's Selectors - THANK YOU!!!

[Mog]

Cop that you arrogant tools. Targeting Vaughan worked really well too. And Brett Lee; superb game, if you wanted the Englishmen to win.

[red+black]

Australia's Selectors - THANK YOU!!!
exactly. But well done England. Hopefully they can finally win something. Shame they won't be playing India in the final. That would have been a corker.

[Bombers_Forever]

The idiotic selectors go back to the glamour boy Lee and look what happens. Bravo! Truly pathetic indeed from Lee.

[Thewlis Dish]

Dammit, now it's only 13-1 in our last 14 vs England. Ah well, it happens I guess.

[Kane McGoodwin]

The idiotic selectors go back to the glamour boy Lee and look what happens. Bravo! Truly pathetic indeed from Lee.
One could only suggest an Indian bookmaker got in the ear of the Aussie selectors to pick Lee. :o

[red+black]

At least we can be confident he has no chance of selection in India. Assuming the tour goes ahead anyway.

[Nightwolf]

England win one game against us and theres blokes giving it to us. Who gives a rats about the ICC trophy anyway, We got the world cup, in our hands!

[Supermercado]

At least we can be confident he has no chance of selection in India. Assuming the tour goes ahead anyway.

He's a lock for selection. They love him in India - the authorities there will have a huge paper bag full of money for the ACB to pick him. Scum one and all.

[marcuz]

Warney would have been handy last night. Although i think the game was lost when we batted. Losing Symonds for a duck on a run out hurt.

[scmods]

Lee 8.3 0 65 2 (3nb, 2w)

But he got two wickets!! The man's a legend!! Australia is nothing without him!!

:rolleyes:

[Bombers_Forever]

But he got two wickets!! The man's a legend!! Australia is nothing without him!!

:rolleyes:

2 wickets......impressive for someone who appears to be the greatest bowler since Lillee! :rolleyes: 65 runs of 8.3 overs.......now that is quality bowling indeed.

[Supermercado]

He only gets wickets in two ways,

a) Batsman attempts to tonk a $hit ball out of the ground and is caught,
b) Hapless tailenders who your grandmother could get out try to tonk a $hit ball out of the ground and get bowled.

[Bombers_Forever]

He only gets wickets in two ways,

a) Batsman attempts to tonk a $hit ball out of the ground and is caught,
b) Hapless tailenders who your grandmother could get out try to tonk a $hit ball out of the ground and get bowled.

That pretty much sums him up. Please email that to the selectors and the ACB as soon as possible.

[dA Crow]

Cop that you arrogant tools. Targeting Vaughan worked really well too. And Brett Lee; superb game, if you wanted the Englishmen to win.

Very elogently put sir :rolleyes:

[dA Crow]

And how many wickets did we give away to average shots, Lehmann out smarted himself, Ponting did am amazing job of pin pointing Gough in the outfield with out 50 mtrs free either way of him :rolleyes: . And I really dont even wanna comment about Vaughan getting 2 middle order wickets with what can only be described as Right arm WTF bowling.

[red+black]

The disappointing thing is that Lee didn't suffer for a full ten overs, and finish with 10-(as if)-80-2.

[lamby29]

You won't see me defending the Bing any longer. I'm well and truly converted. :p

[Catman]

You won't see me defending the Bing any longer. I'm well and truly converted. :p

You've seen the light, lamby!

Now if only the selectors did the same...

[mcgarnacle]

should never represent australia in an odi. he has been uneconomical for years. he'd be on the fringe of test selection though.

[docker_azza]

The loss really confirms how much of a bogey tournament the Champions Trophy is for Australia

[apollo_creed]

Lee's reactrion to getting Flintoff out shows what a tosser he is.

[Tenacious Dees]

Lee's reactrion to getting Flintoff out shows what a tosser he is.

Couldn't believe it, Lee is such a d*ck - one thing to do it when your team is winning, but when you've underperfomed to such a level and been carted around the park all day it's absolutely ridiculous to react in that manner.

[mayhem176]

If only he could get back to that ONE special day at the G where he tore the heart out of the Indian top order with express pace and big time swing. Shame it is all a thing of the past now, what a bowler he could have been if he had continued down the road he started on.

[DIG]

Lee needs to re-establish in both forms of the game at domestic level. I don't want to see him in the test side again until he's taken a plethora of pura cup wickets and earned his way back (like Kaspa). So ain't it great he's going to India???

A few years ago he was compared with Shoaib Akhtar. Now they're not even in the same ball park. Put him away for a couple of years, he's still young enough to one day...maybe...come good, but for once let him earn his way into the side - test and ODI.

[Dog Town]

There is no way they can possibly go into an indian test match with 4 quicks so surely Lee is in serious danger of not being picked for the first pick.Kaspa ia just about the in form bowler going around at the moment and Pidgeon and Dizzy are world class and proven.

On another topic I think the selectors are being repaid pretty handsomely for the faith they placed in Damian Martyn.Has been in brilliant form for some time now.