Australia in England : England wins the first one day game – EJG Morgan scores hundred

Australia in England : England wins the first one day game – EJG Morgan scores hundred

First one day game: England vs Australia at Southampton on 22.06.10 : England won by four wickets

The history of one day games witnessed today, that is 22.06.10, the 3000th game when England and Australia met at Rose Bowl, Southampton

The first ever one day game was played on 05.01.1971 between Australia and England at Melbourne. It is quite befitting that the same two teams are playing the 3000th one day, albeit with a difference. The first one day game was played in Australia while the 3000th one day game is played in England.

Australia capped JR Hazzlewood for this game. He became the 183rd Australian cricketer to represent Australia in one day games. He is the 46th Australian cricketer to make one day debut against England. He is the youngest Australian cricketer to have made his debut at the age of 19 years and 165 days. He is a Left hand bat and Right arm medium fast bowler. He is 1.96 meters tall.

CL White completed 1500 runs of his one day career when he was on 3 during his knock of 10 in this game. At the end of this game he has an aggregate of 1507 runs. He became the 24th Australian batsman to total 1500 plus runs in one day games.

MJ Clarke’s 87 not out provide his 41st one day half century and 45th one day fifty. It also represents his highest score against England in one day games. It is his sixth half century against England. His six half centuries are – 57* at Melbourne on 12.01.07, 55* at North Sound on 08.04.07, 52 at Southampton on 09.09.09, 62* at Lord’s on 12.09.09, 52 at Nottingham on 15.09.09 and 87* at Southampton on 22.06.10

MJ Clarke’s 87 not out in this game provide the 132nd occasion of an Australian batsman scoring a fifty against England. With six half centuries against England, MJ Clarke became the seventh Australian batsman to score six or more half centuries against England. Others are – RT Ponting {12}, AR Border {09}, DR Martyn {09}, AC Gilchrist {08}, DM Jones {08} an ME Waugh {07}

MJ Clarke’s run aggregate against England at the end of this game stood at 672, He completed 600 runs when he was on 15 during his knock of 87 not out. He became the 12th Australian batsman to total 600 plus runs against England. Others are – RT Ponting {1475}, AR Border {1302}, AC Gilchrist {1087}, DM Jones {955}, DR Martyn {913}, ME Waugh {834}, GR Marsh {716}, ML Hayden {715}, SR Waugh {666}, GS Chappell {657} and DC Boon {602}

This game was KP Pietersen’s 100th one day game. He became the 15th England cricketer to play 100 plus one day games. He scored 29 in this game. KP Pietersen became the 188th cricketer to appear in 100 plus games in the history of one day games.

WU Tharanga of Sri Lanka and KP Pietersen of England made their 100th appearance in one day game today, that is on 22.06.10. WU Tharnga made his 100th appearance against India at Dambulla awhile KP Pietersen made his 100th appearance against Australia at Southampton

AJ Strauss was playing his 100th one day innings in this game. He became the eleventh England cricketer to play 100 plus one day innings. He scored 10 in this game. AJ Strauss became the 140th cricketer to play 100 plus innings in the history of one day games

EJG Morgan scored 103 in this game providing the 1072nd occasion of a batsman scoring a hundred in the history of one day games. His knock also represents the 94th occasion of an England batsman scoring a hundred in one day games. His knock provides the 22nd occasion of an England batsman scoring a hundred against Australia in one day games. Indian batsmen have scored 24 hundreds against Australia and hold the record for most hundreds by a team against Australia

EJG Morgan’s 103 not out represent his third one day hundred. The other two are – 115 representing Ireland vs Canada at Nairobi {Jaff} on 04.02.07 and 110 not out representing England vs Bangladesh at Dhaka on 02.03.10.

EJG Morgan’s 103 not out in this game represent the 105th occasion of a batsman scoring a hundred against Australia.

RT Ponting’s captaincy record at the end of this game read thus – Matches – 216 : Won – 158 : Lost – 45 : Tied – 02 and No Result – 11. He needs two more captaincy assignments to equal and three more assignment to overhaul the record of SP Fleming’s record of 218 appearances as captain

Australia’s loss in this game was its 250th one day game loss. Other teams to lose 250 plus games are – India {348}, Pakistan {314}, Sri Lanka {297}, New Zealand {294}, West Indies {274}, Zimbabwe {265} and England {251}

England’s win in this game provide its 39th win against Australia. West Indies with 57 wins is the only other team to win more matches against Australia

RT Ponting has an aggregate of 12949 runs at the end of this game and he needs 51 more runs for his 13000 one day runs. He also has an aggregate of 7966 runs as captain batting at number three and requires 34 runs for 8000 runs.

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