Authors: Gideon Haigh
Ashes 2011 (26 page)
What sort of cricketers, furthermore, will a T20-centric system produce? Don't bet on there being an Australian Alastair Cook or Graeme Swann any time soon, or even another Simon Katich, let alone a Ricky Ponting. When Australia's captain was ushered a little closer to the exit on Thursday, he was not just a declining Australian captain but an anachronism â a tough, brave, single-minded, self-motivated, record-breaking Test batsman with no time for T20 and its artificialities. The cricket of the future, it seems, will be less like the game he grew up on, and more like the pursuit played on the MCG outfield after the Ashes were sewn up.
FOURTH TEST
Melbourne Cricket Ground 26-29 December 2010
Toss
England
England
won by an innings and 157 runs
AUSTRALIA 1st innings | R | M | B | 4 | 6 | SR | ||
SR Watson | c Pietersen | b Tremlett | 5 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 41.66 |
PJ Hughes | c Pietersen | b Bresnan | 16 | 59 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 |
*RT Ponting | c Swann | b Tremlett | 10 | 52 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 26.31 |
MJ Clarke | c †Prior | b Anderson | 20 | 89 | 54 | 2 | 0 | 37.03 |
MEK Hussey | c †Prior | b Anderson | 8 | 44 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 19.51 |
SPD Smith | c †Prior | b Anderson | 6 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 |
†BJ Haddin | c Strauss | b Bresnan | 5 | 23 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 31.25 |
MG Johnson | c †Prior | b Anderson | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
RJ Harris | not out | 10 | 39 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 43.47 | |
PM Siddle | c †Prior | b Tremlett | 11 | 25 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 73.33 |
BW Hilfenhaus | c †Prior | b Tremlett | 0 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
EXTRAS | (lb 2, nb 5) | 7 | ||||||
TOTAL | (all out; 42.5 overs; 195 mins) | 98 | (2.28 runs per over) |
FoW | 1-15 | (Watson, 3.2 ov), | 2-37 | (Hughes, 13.1 ov), |
3-37 | (Ponting, 14.2 ov), | 4-58 | (Hussey, 25.2 ov), | |
5-66 | (Smith, 29.3 ov), | 6-77 | (Clarke, 33.4 ov), | |
7-77 | (Haddin, 34.5 ov), | 8-77 | (Johnson, 35.2 ov), | |
9-92 | (Siddle, 40.3 ov), | 10-98 | (Hilfenhaus, 42.5 ov) |
BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | |
JM Anderson | 16 | 4 | 44 | 4 | 2.75 | |
CT Tremlett | 11.5 | 5 | 26 | 4 | 2.19 | (1nb) |
TT Bresnan | 13 | 6 | 25 | 2 | 1.92 | |
GP Swann | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.50 |
ENGLAND 1st innings | R | M | B | 4 | 6 | SR | ||
* | c Hussey | b Siddle | 69 | 232 | 167 | 5 | 0 | 41.31 |
AN Cook | c Watson | b Siddle | 82 | 212 | 152 | 11 | 0 | 53.94 |
IJL Trott | not out | 168 | 486 | 345 | 13 | 0 | 48.69 | |
KP Pietersen | lbw | b Siddle | 51 | 127 | 89 | 7 | 0 | 57.30 |
PD Collingwood | c Siddle | b Johnson | 8 | 27 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 53.33 |
IR Bell | c Siddle | b Johnson | 1 | 19 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7.69 |
†MJ Prior | c Ponting | b Siddle | 85 | 201 | 119 | 11 | 0 | 71.42 |
TT Bresnan | c †Haddin | b Siddle | 4 | 22 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 23.52 |
GP Swann | c †Haddin | b Hilfenhaus | 22 | 51 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 78.57 |
CT Tremlett | b Hilfenhaus | 4 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
JM Anderson | b Siddle | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
EXTRAS | (b 10, lb 2, w 3, nb 3) | 18 | ||||||
TOTAL | (all out; 159.1 overs; 700 mins) | 513 | (3.22 runs per over) |
FoW | 1-159 | (Cook, 51.1 ov), | 2-170 | (Strauss, 55.3 ov), |
3-262 | (Pietersen, 86.3 ov), | 4-281 | (Collingwood, 91.3 ov), | |
5-286 | (Bell, 95.3 ov), | 6-459 | (Prior, 141.1 ov), | |
7-465 | (Bresnan, 145.4 ov), | 8-508 | (Swann, 156.3 ov), | |
9-512 | (Tremlett, 158.1 ov), | 10-513 | (Anderson, 159.1 ov) |
BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | |
BW Hilfenhaus | 37 | 13 | 83 | 2 | 2.24 | (1w) |
RJ Harris | 28.4 | 9 | 91 | 0 | 3.17 | |
MG Johnson | 29 | 2 | 134 | 2 | 4.62 | (2nb, 2w) |
PM Siddle | 33.1 | 10 | 75 | 6 | 2.26 | (1nb) |
SR Watson | 10 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 3.40 | |
SPD Smith | 18 | 3 | 71 | 0 | 3.94 | |
MJ Clarke | 3.2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 3.90 |
AUSTRALIA 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4 | 6 | SR | ||
SR Watson | lbw | b Bresnan | 54 | 136 | 102 | 6 | 0 | 52.94 |
PJ Hughes | run out (Trott/†Prior) | 23 | 49 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 76.66 | |
* | b Bresnan | 20 | 101 | 73 | 2 | 0 | 27.39 | |
MJ Clarke | c Strauss | b Swann | 13 | 81 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 19.69 |
MEK Hussey | c Bell | b Bresnan | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
SPD Smith | b Anderson | 38 | 91 | 67 | 6 | 0 | 56.71 | |
† | not out | 55 | 135 | 93 | 4 | 1 | 59.13 | |
MG Johnson | b Tremlett | 6 | 23 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 27.27 | |
PM Siddle | c Pietersen | b Swann | 40 | 70 | 50 | 4 | 1 | 80.00 |
BW Hilfenhaus | c †Prior | b Bresnan | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
RJ Harris | absent hurt | - | ||||||
EXTRAS | (b 1, lb 6, w 2) | 9 | ||||||
TOTAL | (all out; 85.4 overs; 354 mins) | 258 | (3.01 runs per over) |
FoW | 1-53 | (Hughes, 11.3 ov), | 2-99 | (Watson, 31.6 ov), |
3-102 | (Ponting, 35.4 ov), | 4-104 | (Hussey, 37.5 ov), | |
5-134 | (Clarke, 52.5 ov), | 6-158 | (Smith, 61.5 ov), | |
7-172 | (Johnson, 67.5 ov), | 8-258 | (Siddle, 84.2 ov), | |
9-258 | (Hilfenhaus, 85.4 ov) |
BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | |
JM Anderson | 20 | 1 | 71 | 1 | 3.55 | (1w) |
CT Tremlett | 17 | 3 | 71 | 1 | 4.17 | |
GP Swann | 27 | 11 | 59 | 2 | 2.18 | |
TT Bresnan | 21.4 | 8 | 50 | 4 | 2.30 | (1w) |