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ODI no. 2

Prudential Trophy - 1st ODI
England v Australia

1972 season

Played at Old Trafford, Manchester, on 24 August 1972 (55-over match)

Result England won by 6 wickets (with 35 balls remaining)


Australia innings (55 overs maximum)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	KR Stackpole	c D'Oliveira b Greig	37	66	62	6	0	59.67
	GD Watson	b Arnold	0	5	1	0	0	0.00
	IM Chappell	b Woolmer	53	104	75	5	0	70.66
	GS Chappell	b Woolmer	40	77	66	3	0	60.60
	R Edwards	run out	57	99	84	6	0	67.85
	AP Sheahan	b Arnold	6	9	9	0	0	66.66
	KD Walters	lbw b Woolmer	2	5	7	0	0	28.57
	RW Marsh	c Close b Snow	11	26	17	1	0	64.70
	AA Mallett	not out	6	17	15	0	0	40.00
	Extras	(b 2, lb 3, nb 5)	10

	Total	(8 wickets; 55 overs)	222	(4.03 runs per over)

Did not bat DK Lillee, RAL Massie

Fall of wickets1-4 (Watson), 2-66 (Stackpole), 3-125 (IM Chappell), 4-156 (GS Chappell), 5-167 (Sheahan), 6-170 (Walters), 7-205 (Marsh), 8-222 (Edwards)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
JA Snow	11	1	33	1	3.00
GG Arnold	11	0	38	2	3.45
AW Greig	11	0	50	1	4.54
RA Woolmer	10	1	33	3	3.30
BL D'Oliveira	9	1	37	0	4.11
DB Close	3	0	21	0	7.00


England innings (target: 223 runs from 55 overs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	G Boycott	c Marsh b Watson	25	35	38	3	0	65.78
	DL Amiss	b Watson	103	161	134	9	0	76.86
	KWR Fletcher	b Massie	60	86	76	8	0	78.94
	DB Close	run out	1	2	1	0	0	100.00
	JH Hampshire	not out	25	40	41	5	0	60.97
	BL D'Oliveira	not out	5	7	5	1	0	100.00
	Extras	(b 1, lb 6)	7

	Total	(4 wickets; 49.1 overs)	226	(4.59 runs per over)

Did not bat AW Greig,

APE Knott, RA Woolmer, JA Snow, GG Arnold

Fall of wickets1-48 (Boycott), 2-173 (Fletcher), 3-174 (Close), 4-215 (Amiss)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DK Lillee	11	2	49	0	4.45
RAL Massie	11	1	49	1	4.45
GD Watson	8	1	28	2	3.50
AA Mallett	11	1	43	0	3.90
GS Chappell	3	0	20	0	6.66
KD Walters	3	1	16	0	5.33
KR Stackpole	2.1	0	14	0	6.46

Toss Australia, who chose to bat first
Series England led the 3-match series 1-0

ODI debuts R Edwards, DK Lillee, RAL Massie, AP Sheahan and GD Watson (Australia); DL Amiss, GG Arnold, DB Close, AW Greig and RA Woolmer (England)
Player of the match DL Amiss (England)
Players of the series DL Amiss (England) and KR Stackpole (Australia)

Umpires CS Elliott and AEG Rhodes

Match notes

Amiss (134 balls, 161 minutes, 9 fours) completed the first century at this level off 130 balls in the 46th over. He shared the first hundred partnership with Fletcher, the pair addind 125 in 86 minutes (26.4 overs)

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