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Test no. 1126

The Ashes - 6th Test
England v Australia

1989 season

Played at Kennington Oval, London, on 24,25,26,28,29 August 1989 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn


Australia 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GR Marsh	c Igglesden b Small	17	79	62	2	0	27.41
	MA Taylor	c Russell b Igglesden	71	162	125	4	0	56.80
	DC Boon	c Atherton b Small	46	124	90	6	0	51.11
	AR Border	c Russell b Capel	76	251	156	11	0	48.71
	DM Jones	c Gower b Small	122	217	180	17	0	67.77
	SR Waugh	b Igglesden	14	44	28	1	0	50.00
	IA Healy	c Russell b Pringle	44	59	44	6	0	100.00
	TV Hohns	c Russell b Pringle	30	96	62	4	0	48.38
	MG Hughes	lbw b Pringle	21	46	42	3	0	50.00
	GF Lawson	b Pringle	2	9	8	0	0	25.00
	TM Alderman	not out	6	16	10	1	0	60.00
	Extras	(b 1, lb 9, nb 9)	19

	Total	(all out; 132.3 overs)	468	(3.53 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-48 (Marsh), 2-130 (Taylor), 3-149 (Boon), 4-345 (Border), 5-347 (Jones), 6-386 (Waugh), 7-409 (Healy), 8-447 (Hughes), 9-453 (Lawson), 10-468 (Hohns)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GC Small	40	8	141	3	3.52
AP Igglesden	24	2	91	2	3.79
DR Pringle	24.3	6	70	4	2.85
DJ Capel	16	2	66	1	4.12
NGB Cook	25	5	78	0	3.12
MA Atherton	1	0	10	0	10.00
GA Gooch	2	1	2	0	1.00


England 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GA Gooch	lbw b Alderman	0	2	3	0	0	0.00
	JP Stephenson	c Waugh b Alderman	25	121	66	2	0	37.87
	MA Atherton	c Healy b Hughes	12	51	34	2	0	35.29
	RA Smith	b Lawson	11	19	19	2	0	57.89
	DI Gower	c Healy b Alderman	79	166	120	11	0	65.83
	DJ Capel	lbw b Alderman	4	3	3	1	0	133.33
	RC Russell	c Healy b Alderman	12	20	13	2	0	92.30
	DR Pringle	c Taylor b Hohns	27	148	90	0	0	30.00
	GC Small	c Jones b Lawson	59	139	97	8	0	60.82
	NGB Cook	c Jones b Lawson	31	124	102	2	0	30.39
	AP Igglesden	not out	2	38	23	0	0	8.69
	Extras	(b 2, lb 7, w 1, nb 13)	23

	Total	(all out; 92.1 overs)	285	(3.09 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-1 (Gooch), 2-28 (Atherton), 3-47 (Smith), 4-80 (Stephenson), 5-84 (Capel), 6-98 (Russell), 7-169 (Gower), 8-201 (Pringle), 9-274 (Small), 10-285 (Cook)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
TM Alderman	27	7	66	5	2.44
GF Lawson	29.1	9	85	3	2.91
MG Hughes	23	3	84	1	3.65
TV Hohns	10	1	30	1	3.00
SR Waugh	3	0	11	0	3.66


Australia 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GR Marsh	lbw b Igglesden	4	15	13	0	0	30.76
	MA Taylor	c Russell b Small	48	153	120	7	0	40.00
	DC Boon	run out	37	143	107	4	0	34.57
	AR Border	not out	51	109	74	5	0	68.91
	DM Jones	b Capel	50	79	69	4	0	72.46
	SR Waugh	not out	7	24	12	0	0	58.33
	Extras	(b 2, lb 7, nb 13)	22

	Total	(4 wickets dec; 63 overs)	219	(3.47 runs per over)

Did not bat

IA Healy, TV Hohns, MG Hughes, GF Lawson, TM Alderman

Fall of wickets1-7 (Marsh), 2-100 (Taylor), 3-101 (Boon), 4-189 (Jones)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GC Small	20	4	57	1	2.85
AP Igglesden	13	1	55	1	4.23
DJ Capel	8	0	35	1	4.37
DR Pringle	16	0	53	0	3.31
NGB Cook	6	2	10	0	1.66


England 2nd innings (target: 403 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GA Gooch	c & b Alderman	10	55	34	0	0	29.41
	JP Stephenson	lbw b Alderman	11	32	23	1	0	47.82
	MA Atherton	b Lawson	14	65	47	2	0	29.78
	RA Smith	not out	77	146	99	11	0	77.77
	DI Gower	c Waugh b Lawson	7	24	24	0	0	29.16
	DJ Capel	c Taylor b Hohns	17	69	50	2	0	34.00
	RC Russell	not out	0	9	6	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(lb 1, w 1, nb 5)	7

	Total	(5 wickets; 46.1 overs)	143	(3.09 runs per over)

Did not bat DR Pringle, GC Small, NGB Cook, AP Igglesden

Fall of wickets1-20 (Stephenson), 2-27 (Gooch), 3-51 (Atherton), 4-67 (Gower), 5-138 (Capel)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
TM Alderman	13	3	30	2	2.30
GF Lawson	15.1	2	41	2	2.70
MG Hughes	8	2	34	0	4.25
TV Hohns	10	2	37	1	3.70

Toss Australia, who chose to bat first
Series Australia won the 6-match series 4-0

Test debuts AP Igglesden and JP Stephenson (England)
Player of the match DM Jones (Australia)
Players of the series TM Alderman (Australia) and RC Russell (England)

Umpires HD Bird and KE Palmer

Close of play
24 Aug day 1 - Australia 1st innings 325/3 (AR Border 66*, DM Jones 114*)
25 Aug day 2 - England 1st innings 1/1 (JP Stephenson 0*, MA Atherton 0*)
26 Aug day 3 - England 1st innings 124/6 (DI Gower 43*, DR Pringle 6*)
27 Aug rest day
28 Aug day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 87/1 (MA Taylor 43*, DC Boon 29*)
29 Aug day 5 - England 2nd innings 143/5 (46.1 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Attendance: 55,989
A.R.Border becomes the first Australian captain since W.M.Woodful in 1934 to regain the Ashes in England.

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