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Australia v England

Australia won by 6 wickets

7 February 1979Melbourne

Australiawon by 6 wickets

95/421.5 ov

England

9431.7 ov

Scorecard: every batter's and bowler's line, as the scorer kept it

Scorecard. For this match we hold every batter's and every bowler's line as the scorer's card kept it. The card does not name the fielder or the bowler for each dismissal, and older cards often leave balls faced blank (shown as -). There is no ball-by-ball record before December 2001. See the matches held ball by ball.

England innings

9431.7 ov

England batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Geoff Boycott	caught	2	11	18	0	0	18.2
Mike Brearley	caught	46	112	148	3	0	41.1
Derek Randall	caught	0	1	1	0	0	0.0
Graham Gooch	caught	4	13	15	1	0	30.8
David Gower	caught	3	10	11	0	0	30.0
Ian Botham	bowled	13	19	28	3	0	68.4
David Bairstow	run out	3	28	26	0	0	10.7
Phil Edmonds	lbw	15	42	47	1	0	35.7
John Lever	bowled	1	14	17	0	0	7.1
Bob Willis	caught	2	8	7	0	0	25.0
Mike Hendrick	not out	0*	1	4	0	0	0.0
Extras	lb 2, nb 3	5
Total	all out, 31.7 overs (8-ball)	94

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 100

1-10 Geoff Boycott2-10 Derek Randall3-17 Graham Gooch4-22 David Gower5-42 Ian Botham6-56 David Bairstow7-91 Mike Brearley8-91 Phil Edmonds9-94 Bob Willis10-94 John Lever

Bowling to England
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Alan Hurst	5	3	7	2	1.40
Geoff Dymock	6	1	21	2	3.50
Phil Carlson	8	2	22	0	2.75
Gary Cosier	7	1	22	3	3.14
Trevor Laughlin	5.7	0	17	2	2.89

Australia innings chasing 95

95/421.5 ov

Australia batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Graeme Wood	caught	30	38	67	2	0	78.9
Rick Darling	caught	14	21	25	3	0	66.7
Kim Hughes	caught	0	9	12	0	0	0.0
Graham Yallop	bowled	25	69	78	1	0	36.2
Peter Toohey	not out	16*	28	59	0	0	57.1
Gary Cosier	not out	8*	10	9	1	0	80.0
Extras	nb 2	2
Total	4 wickets, 21.5 overs (8-ball)	95

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 100

1-29 Rick Darling2-37 Kim Hughes3-54 Graeme Wood4-87 Graham Yallop

Bowling to Australia
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Bob Willis	5	2	16	2	3.20
Mike Hendrick	6	0	32	0	5.33
Ian Botham	5.5	0	30	1	5.33
John Lever	5	0	15	1	3.00

ODIs in February 1979

2 matches

ODIScorecardEngland212/640Australia215/638.6Australia won by 4 wicketsMelbourne, 4 February ODIScorecardEngland9431.7Australia95/421.5Australia won by 6 wicketsMelbourne, 7 February

Match facts

Format: ODI No. 60
Dates: 7 February 1979
Ground: Melbourne
Result: Australia won by 6 wickets
Overs: 8 balls an over
In the database: Scorecard

GET/v1/matches/1979-02-07-australia-v-england/scorecard200

{
  "coverage": "scorecard",
  "balls_per_over": 8,
  "innings": [{
    "team": "england", "runs": 94,
    "batting": [{"player": "Mike Brearley", "dismissal": "caught",
      "runs": 46, "balls": 112, "minutes": 148, ...}, ...],
    "bowling": [{"player": "Alan Hurst", "overs": "5", "wickets": 2, ...}, ...]
  }, ...]
}

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