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ODI no. 8

Prudential Trophy - 1st ODI
England v West Indies

1973 season

Played at Headingley, Leeds, on 5 September 1973 (55-over match)

Result England won by 1 wicket (with 3 balls remaining)


West Indies innings (55 overs maximum)			R	B	4s	6s	SR
	RC Fredericks	c Greig b Willis	4	12	1	0	33.33
	MLC Foster	c Greig b Old	25	62	4	0	40.32
	RB Kanhai	c Greig b Underwood	55	75	5	1	73.33
	CH Lloyd	b Willis	31	32	2	1	96.87
	AI Kallicharran	st Taylor b Underwood	26	68	3	0	38.23
	GS Sobers	c Taylor b Old	0	6	0	0	0.00
	BD Julien	c Taylor b Old	0	2	0	0	0.00
	KD Boyce	b Underwood	7	17	1	0	41.17
	DL Murray	run out	11	29	0	0	37.93
	VA Holder	c Old b Hendrick	10	21	0	0	47.61
	LR Gibbs	not out	0	0	0	0	-
	Extras	(lb 12)	12

	Total	(all out; 54 overs)	181	(3.35 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-4 (Fredericks), 2-65 (Foster), 3-115 (Kanhai), 4-132 (Lloyd), 5-133 (Sobers), 6-133 (Julien), 7-158 (Kallicharran), 8-159 (Boyce), 9-181 (Holder), 10-181 (Murray)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RGD Willis	10	2	29	2	2.90
M Hendrick	11	4	27	1	2.45
CM Old	11	1	43	3	3.90
DL Underwood	11	2	30	3	2.72
AW Greig	11	0	40	0	3.63


England innings (target: 182 runs from 55 overs)			R	B	4s	6s	SR
	G Boycott	c Kanhai b Holder	0	13	0	0	0.00
	MJ Smith	lbw b Julien	31	71	2	0	43.66
	MH Denness	b Gibbs	66	117	6	0	56.41
	FC Hayes	c Murray b Julien	9	27	2	0	33.33
	KWR Fletcher	lbw b Holder	2	10	0	0	20.00
	AW Greig	c Sobers b Boyce	48	54	4	0	88.88
	CM Old	b Sobers	4	15	0	0	26.66
	RW Taylor	run out	8	18	1	0	44.44
	M Hendrick	b Boyce	1	2	0	0	50.00
	RGD Willis	not out	5	4	0	0	125.00
	DL Underwood	not out	1	2	0	0	50.00
	Extras	(b 1, lb 3, nb 3)	7

	Total	(9 wickets; 54.3 overs)	182	(3.33 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-3 (Boycott), 2-74 (Smith), 3-93 (Hayes), 4-95 (Fletcher), 5-143 (Denness), 6-157 (Old), 7-171 (Taylor), 8-176 (Greig), 9-176 (Hendrick)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GS Sobers	10.3	3	31	1	2.95
VA Holder	11	1	34	2	3.09
KD Boyce	11	1	40	2	3.63
BD Julien	11	1	40	2	3.63
LR Gibbs	11	0	30	1	2.72

Toss West Indies, who chose to bat first
Series England led the 2-match series 1-0

ODI debuts MH Denness, M Hendrick, CM Old, MJ Smith, RW Taylor and RGD Willis (England); KD Boyce, MLC Foster, RC Fredericks, LR Gibbs, VA Holder, BD Julien, AI Kallicharran, RB Kanhai, CH Lloyd, DL Murray and GS Sobers (West Indies)
Player of the match MH Denness (England)

Umpires CS Elliott and AE Fagg

Match notes

On his debut as England's captain, Denness made the highes contribution to the first of these contests to be decided by the final pair of batsmen. Sobers failed to score in his only one-day international.

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