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Topic Started: Nov 10 2006, 01:56 PM (4,469 Views)
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England captain Michael Vaughan will miss Friday's game against Australia because of a torn left hamstring.
The extent of the injury he suffered in the win over New Zealand in Hobart was revealed by a scan on Wednesday.

It is still unclear how long Vaughan will be out of action and the injury is to be reassessed in the next 48 hours.

Andrew Flintoff will lead the team in Brisbane and Ravi Bopara may make his debut, but England have also called up Mal Loye to provide extra cover.

Bopara normally bats at five for Essex in one-day cricket, so it could mean Ed Joyce reverting to the top of the order in place of Vaughan, although Loye provides an extra option.

"It's a great boost for me to be in with a chance," said 34-year-old Loye, who has been playing provincial cricket in New Zealand for Auckland.

"I got a few runs against Otago the other day and if I do play on Friday I'll feel pretty confident."

He told BBC Sport: "I'm really excited and after the Ashes series I know what to expect from the Australians. But at the end of the day performance is everything.

"The last couple of seasons I've done pretty well for Lancashire. A lot of that is down to [the staff at] Lancashire and I am very thankful for the opportunity I've been given."

Vaughan suffered the injury, described as a grade one tear, after running around from backward point and turning sharply during New Zealand's innings.

He required a runner soon after coming out to bat and made 17 as England clinched a three-wicket win - their first victory during the tour of Australia.

He was playing only his second one-day international after surgery to solve career-threatening problems on his right knee.

The Yorkshire star was forced to return home early from the winter tours of Pakistan and India in 2005/6.


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Australia v England :: CB Series :: Brisbane

England: 155
Australia: 156-6

Australia win by 4 wickets


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Australia completed a four-wicket one-day win over England but an early collapse made them sweat in Brisbane.

Despite debutant Mal Loye's 36, England were bowled out for 155, Glenn McGrath taking 3-24 and Nathan Bracken 3-21.

But Jon Lewis and James Anderson shared the early wickets to leave the home side in trouble on 48-4 at one point.

After a stand of 45 with Michael Clarke (36), Mike Hussey survived a caught behind appeal on 19 to hit the winning runs in the 39th over and finish on 46. 

Needing just 3.12 runs per over at the start of their innings, Australia had their sights on an early night.

But they did not count on the effectiveness of Lewis and a fired-up Anderson, who revived memories of his international one-day debut in Australia four years ago.

Lewis fed left-handers Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden hoicks over midwicket, while Anderson lurked in the deep to collect a couple of high-pressure catches.

Lewis also had Andrew Symonds wafting at a wide delivery to get an edge behind and then had Clarke caught behind with the second ball of his second spell for figures of 4-36.

Anderson's opening eight-over spell cost just 19 for the wicket of Brad Hodge (in the side with Ricky Ponting rested) and he accounted for Cameron White on his return.

But he was unlucky not to have claimed the wicket of Hussey, as TV replays showed a thin edge behind in the 30th over, with Australia still 52 short of victory.

Back as captain, Andrew Flintoff used his four front-line bowlers in an attempt to bowl Australia out - England's only real hope of victory.

But Hussey's survival was key as Australia claimed a bonus point for completing victory in less than 40 overs.

By the end of the day, McGrath's stuttering arrival in the attack, when his first ball was pulled by Loye through midwicket and his second slog-swept for another boundary, was well behind him.

Loye, aged 34, was flown in from New Zealand, where he was playing state cricket, to play in his 264th one-day match when Michael Vaughan injured his hamstring.

His front-foot shot off Lee in the fifth over would not have looked out of place in any of the previous 263, played for Northants and, for the last three years, Lancashire.

While Lee, returning after a bout of bronchitis, took a while to find his feet, left-armer Bracken was a model of consistency, his opening six-over spell costing just 14.

The wicket of Loye was a just reward, as he shaped the ball away to gain an edge to a wide first slip and end an opening stand of 52 - the highest by England against Australia all winter.

Andrew Strauss's edge over slip off Lee for six indicated his luck might be turning after a difficult tour but an athletic diving, one-handed catch by cover fielder Hodge proved to the contrary, punishing an uncontrolled pull shot.

It was downhill from there for the tourists, denied singles by the accuracy of McGrath, Bracken and then Mitchell Johnson on his home ground.

Ed Joyce endured another failure, getting an inside edge behind with a loose push, and Paul Collingwood edged his first ball behind in McGrath's next over to force Paul Nixon to avoid the hat-trick.

In-between, England's disastrous season was summed up by the run out of Ian Bell, initially ignoring non-striker Collingwood's call for a single to backward point then caught out of his ground trying to make his mind up.

Flintoff, on 27, was just beginning to open up when another outstanding catch from Hodge, at deep square leg, stopped him abruptly.

Jamie Dalrymple made his demotion to eight below keeper Nixon look ill-advised with a gritty innings before he was the last man out for 31 - the second-highest score of the innings.


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At least we didn't lose by too much. At least Loye got runs. At least Lewis and Anderson got wickets. At least New Zealand are almost as bad as us at ODIs.
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Australia v New Zealand :: CB Series :: Sydney

New Zealand: 218
Australia: 224-8

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Two major fielding errors cost New Zealand as Australia edged to victory in the fifth match of the CB Series.

Michael Clarke was dropped on 16 before top-scoring with 75, while Michael Hussey should have been run out on 18 and finished unbeaten on 65.

Australia were 17-3 chasing 218 to win before Clarke, Hussey and Andrew Symonds steered Australia to their eighth consecutive win in one-dayers.

Craig McMillan hit 89 for the Kiwis, but his team-mates batted poorly.

The Australian seamers enjoyed profitable returns - Stuart Clark took 4-54, Glenn McGrath 3-24 and Brett Lee, expensive late on, 2-45.

New Zealand were in dire straits at 136-7 in the 37th over before rallying through McMillan and James Franklin.

Though Franklin made just 18, he contributed to a partnership of 57 from 39 balls.

McGrath accounted for both men - Franklin swatting a short ball to deep square leg and McMillan hitting a full toss back to the bowler.

McMillan's wicket was a controversial one. The delivery looked above waist height when it reached the batsman and should have been called a no-ball.

It was nonetheless sweet revenge for McGrath, who had attracted an edge off McMillan's bat with the right-hander on one - only for umpire Asad Rauf to rule not out.

Nathan Bracken wrapped up the innings in the 48th over, bowling last man Michael Mason with a full-pitched delivery.

As they had done against England last Friday, Australia struggled with a run-chase that should have proved much easier on a good wicket for batting.

Mason (2-46) was impressive early on and New Zealand were right back in it when the top three were sent back to the pavilion early.

But the Aussies were let off the hook when James Franklin spilt an easy skier at fine leg.

After Daniel Vettori ended a stand of 60 between Clarke and Symonds, Australia had their next slice of luck when Clarke and Hussey ran to the same end after a mix-up over a run.

But Vettori and Hamish Marshall contrived to make a dog's dinner of what should have been an easy run-out and the Aussies prospered through the delayed final power-play.

At 167-4, Australia were cruising home. But back came the Kiwis - three quick wickets making it 197-7.

Hussey and Bracken put on 19 vital runs before the eighth wicket fell with two more runs needed.

Then Hussey showed why he is rated the world's best batsman in one-day cricket by staying to the end, making the winning hit with a six off Nathan Astle with eight balls remaining.


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England v New Zealand :: CB Series :: Adelaide

New Zealand: 210
England: 120

New Zealand win by 90 runs


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England produced a limp batting display to slump to a 90-run defeat to New Zealand in the CB Series in Adelaide.

They looked on course for a second win over the Kiwis when Andrew Flintoff (4-21) helped dismiss them for 210, with only Jacob Oram (86) attacking.

But James Franklin (3-17) removed the top three before spinner Daniel Vettori (4-24) ran through the middle order.

Only Ed Joyce (47) came close to upping the run rate but after Vettori got him England folded for 120 in 37.5 overs.

They had missed a golden opportunity to go a long way towards setting up a likely final against Australia.

By the end they had managed to rejuvenate a New Zealand team which went into this game low on confidence amid rumours of dressing room unrest.

Initially, England looked very good, and their disciplined bowling display reaped rich rewards when the Kiwis collapsed to 67-5.

James Anderson bowled beautifully, shaping the ball away and nipping it back in, while Flintoff consistently hit the 92/93mph mark.

New Zealand were so subdued that long periods went by in which no boundaries came.

Peter Fulton (24) dispatched Jon Lewis over wide long-on for six in a rare gesture of defiance but then sliced a slower ball to point before Craig McMillan played all round a straight one from Paul Collingwood and departed lbw.

Collingwood took his third catch, this time a sharp one at slip, after Monty Panesar found the edge of Ross Taylor's bat and New Zealand were in disarray.

Oram belatedly gave his side an injection of urgency with his fourth ODI half-century, hitting Jamie Dalrymple and Panesar for big sixes.

Flintoff returned to end his 120-run stand with Brendon McCullum (30) by bowling the keeper and finished with two wickets in three balls by having Vettori caught behind and bowling Shane Bond.

Any suggestions that the pursuit would be straightforward were dismissed following an impressive opening from Franklin, who saw Mal Loye and Ian Bell edge to slip and Andrew Strauss trapped leg-before.

England were struggling to hit the ball off the square until Joyce pulled Mark Gillespie and guided him down to fine-leg for successive boundaries.

The Irish left-hander then pulled the seamer for four before charging down the track and mowing him away to deep mid-wicket.

The introduction of Vettori signalled another collapse, however, from which England would not recover.

Collingwood's misery was ended when he was plumb lbw trying to sweep, while Flintoff gave the spinner the charge and succeeded only in nicking behind.

Paul Nixon was unfortunate to be given out caught behind when replays showed he had not touched a delivery which gave Oram his 100th ODI wicket.

But Joyce and Dalrymple deserved little sympathy for offering easy opportunities off Vettori before Bond returned to deliver the coup de grace and also reach a century of one-day international victims by polishing off the tail.


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Hm. What's more surprising? Losing to New Zealand or Ed Joyce scoring some runs?
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Ed Joyce scoring some runs?

I thought they were going to bring in Ravi Bopara...
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England's match against Australia, in Adelaide, starts at 0315 tomorrow (Friday) UK time. That's 1:15pm in Australia (Adelaide) and 10:15pm in the US (East).
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Australia v England :: CB Series :: Adelaide

England: 110
Australia: 111-1

Australia win by 9 wickets


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England's calamitous tour of Australia plunged to a fresh low, as they were beaten by nine wickets in Adelaide having been skittled for a feeble 110.

Australia rested regular new-ball bowlers Glenn McGrath and Nathan Bracken but were still far too good.

Left-arm pace bowler Mitchell Johnson took 4-45 - England equalling their ninth lowest score in one-dayers.

And the Aussies got home with more than 25 overs to spare in another hopeless mismatch between the two sides.

England, needing to conjure a victory to reignite hopes of making the finals of the CB Series, won the toss and elected to bat first.

Mal Loye hit a trademark sweep for six off Johnson - in fact he hit it so far the ball had to be replaced - but soon nicked a wide ball from Brett Lee.

Andrew Strauss' lamentable winter continued when, on 17, he tried to dink a ball that was not short enough - and far too close to his body - down to third man.

Instead he got an edge to Adam Gilchrist and England were 47-2. 

When Ian Bell and Ed Joyce then advanced the score to 72-2, things looked up for England, knowing that any score above 220 would give them a chance on such a slow wicket.

But Bell, whose array of promising shots had included an effortless six with an off-drive off Andrew Symonds, cut Stuart Clark straight to point.

His 35 was easily the best effort by an England batsman.

Next, Joyce tried to smash Lee out of the ground, only reaching mid-on, and the hopelessly out-of-form Paul Collingwood played a bizarre shot off Symonds straight to mid-off.

That made it 81-5 and there was no let-up from Australia.

Johnson's left-arm angle of attack was too much for the late middle order, even though he was neither seaming nor swinging the ball.

He removed Andrew Flintoff, Jamie Dalrymple and Liam Plunkett as England barely squeezed past 100.

Brad Hogg supplied the last two wickets and England were batting again before the scheduled dinner break.

Plunkett and Chris Tremlett shared the new ball with James Anderson and Jon Lewis both resting niggles.

Tremlett bowled accurately and found some seam movement.

Plunkett had arrived for the start of the Ashes tour but been confined to the nets since November - apart from a one-day tour match.

Unsurprisingly, he struggled to impress. Gilchrist (23) crashed four off-side boundaries in one over from him before being run out, and after the interval Ponting added three more through the leg-side.

The Australian captain might have been caught before he got going - Collingwood spilling a touch chance at slip off the bowling of Monty Panesar.

But that was as close as either he or Matthew Hayden got to being dismissed. For the record, Ponting finished on 51, Hayden ending a poor run of form, made 30.

On Australia Day, the game had not even lasted long enough for the floodlights to be switched on.


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OK. So we've lost, and it's looking increasingly unlikely we'll get to the final. So let's think about the CWC. I think that we should say farewell to Nixon as an international player, like we did with Udal last winter. We won't stand much of a chance in the CWC. In fact, I'm wrong. We don't stand a chance of winning a game, let alone the tournament. What we need to do is build for the future. When we lost every game in the 2001 Natwest Series, we went to Zimbabwe with a load of rookies and a few experienced heads like Tres and Gough. We need another tour like that. 5 ODIs against some lesser opposition to build confidence and for the future. Maybe against Scotland and Ireland in a Tri-Series.


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Australia: 343-5
New Zealand: 335-5

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Australia just managed an eight-run win over New Zealand despite recording the highest one-day total ever in Perth.

Matthew Hayden (117) and Ricky Ponting (111) put on 200 in 34 overs.

Andrew Symonds (24), Michael Hussey (29no) and Cameron White (20no) helped add 101 runs in the last 10 overs to take the hosts to 343-5.

But Jacob Oram hit an unbeaten 101 from 72 balls, with six sixes, and Brendon McCullum smashed 46 from 39 to keep the Kiwis in it until the final over.

Only South Africa - against Australia in Johannesburg last January - have successfully chased a higher target.

The result keeps alive England's mathematical chances of reaching the best-of-three one-day series finals.

But England will struggle to match New Zealand's batting pyrotechnics when they meet the Black Caps at the same venue on Tuesday.  

New Zealand began their chase aggressively, with Lou Vincent hitting an assured 67 after being recalled following Nathan Astle's sudden retirement.

His team-mates struggled to settle, though, with three batsmen passing 20 but failing to capitalise.

Vincent was trapped lbw trying to sweep spinner Michael Clarke and Craig McMillan was out 10 balls later - in the 28th over - leaving New Zealand 142-3.

When rain hit, the Kiwis needed, with Jacob Oram blazing on 60 not out, but they were 23 runs down on the Duckworth/Lewis score.

Oram, in just his second match back from injury, found the going easier, though, sharing a stand of 48 with Ross Taylor before finding an ally in McCullum.

He reached 50 from 39 balls, after clubbing sixes off successive balls from Clarke then lofting Glenn McGrath over the boundary rope.

Rain hit with the tourists needing 88 to win from 48 balls and while Oram was not distracted, Australia's bowlers regrouped just enough, Nathan Bracken bowling two vital overs at the death.

On a baking hot day at the Waca, with temperatures touching 40C, Australia had a lucky start when Hayden was dropped at cover by Daniel Vettori on nought.

Hayden survived two more chances, put down by Ross Taylor at mid-on on four and on 79, by substitute fielder Hamish Marshall, also at mid-on.

But, with his World Cup place at the upcoming in the balance, he made the most of his good fortune, reaching his century from 104 balls, with 11 fours.

Ponting did not give a chance in notching his 21st one-day international century in 113 balls, with seven fours and one six.

In his 266th match moved him to fourth in the all-time list of ODI centurions, behind Sachin Tendulkar (40), Sanath Jayasuriya (23) and Sourav Ganguly (22).

Together, Hayden and Ponting reached their century partnership from 113 balls and their stand passed 200 from 203, setting a new second-wicket record at the Waca ground.

New Zealand were punished for resting opening duo Shane Bond and James Franklin with an eye to Tuesday's must-win match against England.

Vettori was the only effective bowler, his 10 overs costing 34 for the wicket of Hayden, who was bowled giving the spinner the charge.

Ponting was caught at deep midwicket after a wild pull at McMillan but the stage was set nicely for Australia's big-hitters.

Symonds hit two sixes, White one and Hussey showing his adaptability on his home ground with three shots over the boundary rope.

The previous best score at this ground was the West Indies' 309-6 against Sri Lanka in 1985.

Australia made two changes to the side that beat England on Friday, recalling Bracken and McGrath at the expense of Brad Hogg and Stuart Clark.


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...that was a great match. I really wanted to see Australia lose and I was cheering Oram all the way! But no...

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