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Australia v England

England won by 3 wickets

8 December 1979Melbourne

Australia

207/950 ov

Englandwon by 3 wickets

209/749 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.

Australia innings

207/950 ov

Australia batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Julien Wiener	bowled	7	22	32	1	0	31.8
Bruce Laird	lbw	7	24	28	1	0	29.2
Allan Border	caught	29	54	75	1	1	53.7
Greg Chappell	caught	92	115	170	10	0	80.0
Kim Hughes	stumped	23	24	29	3	0	95.8
Doug Walters	caught	12	22	26	1	0	54.5
Rod Marsh	caught	14	23	27	0	0	60.9
Ray Bright	caught	1	6	7	0	0	16.7
Dennis Lillee	not out	13*	7	7	2	0	185.7
Rodney Hogg	caught	1	3	5	0	0	33.3
Extras	b 1, lb 5, nb 2	8
Total	9 wickets, 50 overs	207

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 210

1-15 Bruce Laird2-15 Julien Wiener3-73 Allan Border4-114 Kim Hughes5-145 Doug Walters6-184 Rod Marsh7-193 Ray Bright8-193 Greg Chappell9-207 Rodney Hogg

Bowling to Australia
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Graham Dilley	10	1	30	2	3.00
Ian Botham	9	2	27	1	3.00
Bob Willis	7	0	28	0	4.00
Graham Gooch	6	0	32	2	5.33
Derek Underwood	10	0	49	1	4.90
Peter Willey	8	0	33	3	4.13

England innings chasing 208

209/749 ov

England batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Derek Randall	lbw	28	69	85	2	0	40.6
Geoff Boycott	caught	68	85	134	7	0	80.0
Peter Willey	caught	37	54	60	2	0	68.5
David Gower	caught	17	24	53	0	1	70.8
Graham Gooch	run out	1	2	6	0	0	50.0
Ian Botham	caught	10	10	9	1	0	100.0
Mike Brearley	caught	27	39	44	2	0	69.2
David Bairstow	not out	15*	15	20	2	0	100.0
Graham Dilley	not out	0*	0	1	0	0	-
Extras	lb 3, nb 3	6
Total	7 wickets, 49 overs	209

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 210

1-71 Derek Randall2-134 Geoff Boycott3-137 Peter Willey4-138 Graham Gooch5-148 Ian Botham6-183 David Gower7-205 Mike Brearley

Bowling to England
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Dennis Lillee	10	1	36	2	3.60
Rodney Hogg	10	2	26	3	2.60
Jeff Thomson	10	1	49	0	4.90
Greg Chappell	8	0	40	0	5.00
Ray Bright	9	1	40	1	4.44
Doug Walters	2	0	12	0	6.00

ODIs in December 1979

6 matches

ODIScorecardAustralia207/950England209/749England won by 3 wicketsMelbourne, 8 December ODIScorecardWest Indies271/248Australia191/848West Indies won by 80 runsMelbourne, 9 December ODIScorecardEngland264/749Australia19247.2England won by 72 runsSydney, 11 December ODIScorecardAustralia176/650West Indies16942.5Australia won by 7 runsSydney, 21 December ODIScorecardEngland217/850West Indies218/146.5West Indies won by 9 wicketsBrisbane, 23 December ODIScorecardAustralia194/647England195/645.1England won by 4 wicketsSydney, 26 December

Match facts

Format: ODI No. 77
Dates: 8 December 1979
Ground: Melbourne
Result: England won by 3 wickets
In the database: Scorecard

GET/v1/matches/1979-12-08-australia-v-england/scorecard200

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  "coverage": "scorecard",
  "balls_per_over": 6,
  "innings": [{
    "team": "australia", "runs": 207,
    "batting": [{"player": "Greg Chappell", "dismissal": "caught",
      "runs": 92, "balls": 115, "minutes": 170, ...}, ...],
    "bowling": [{"player": "Graham Dilley", "overs": "10", "wickets": 2, ...}, ...]
  }, ...]
}

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