It was the 1554th Test in cricket history

Rajneesh Gupta08-Aug-2001

• It was the 1554th Test in cricket history.
• It was Australia’s 617th and England’s 784th match and the 299th
  between these two sides. The record now reads : Australia 120, England
  93, drawn 86.

• Umpires John Hampshire and S Venkataraghavan were officiating in their
  17th and 46th match respectively, while Talat Ali was officiating as
  ICC match referee for the eighth time.

• It was the 20th Test between these two sides on the Trent Bridge
  ground. Australia has won 7 and lost only three. 10 matches were
  drawn. Australia had last lost a match on this ground back in August
  1977.

• Alex Tudor was making a comeback into the English side after two
  years. His last appearance was against New Zealand at Birmingham in
  July 1999.

• The wicket of Robert Croft in the first innings was the 100th for
  Shane Warne against England. He became the 11th Australian and 16th
  bowler overall to achieve this feat. At the end of this match, Warne
  has a tally of 106 wickets from 21 games against England. The
  following table lists the leading wicket takers against England in
  Test cricket:

• Mike Atherton, at the end of this match, has an aggregate of 7676 runs
  from 113 matches which takes him ahead of Colin Cowdrey who had an
  aggregate of 7624 runs from 114 matches. Now only Graham Gooch (8900
  runs from 118 matches), David Gower (8231 from 117) and Geoff Boycott
  (8114 from 108) are ahead of Atherton for England.

• The wicket of Andrew Caddick in the second innings was the 100th for
  Jason Gillespie in his 24th match. He became the 29th Australian and
  121st bowler overall to do so.

• When Mark Ramprakash was stumped by Gilchrist in second innings, it
  was the 19th time Shane Warne got a wicket in this fashion. With this
  he moved ahead of India’s Vinoo Mankad and Bishen Singh Bedi and
  Australia’s Ashley Mallett who each had 18 such dismissals against
  their name. Now only Clarrie Grimmett (28) and India’s Subhash Gupte
  (20) are ahead of Warne.

• When Mike Atherton was dismissed by McGrath in the first innings, it
  was the 20th occasion Atherton was getting out without opening his
  account. He thus joined seven other batsmen who have suffered the
  ignominy of recording 20 or more ducks in a career. They are: West
  Indian Courtney Walsh (43 ducks), Curtley Ambrose (26), Australian
  Shane Warne (24), New Zealander Danny Morrison (24), India’s Bhagwat
  Chandrasekhar (23), Australia’s Glenn McGrath (22) and India’s Bishen
  Singh Bedi (20).

• Brett Lee has now played in 10 matches without being on the losing
  side even once. He has now equalled West Indian Eldine Baptiste’s
  record in this category of statistics. The following tables have the
  details :

Highest Percentage of Winning matches : (Min.Qualification : 10
matches)

• Alec Stewart has now appeared in 47 `lost’ matchesmaximum by any
  player in Test cricket history. He was earlier at level with
  Australia’s Allan Border. The details :

• Australia has now played in 21 consecutive result matches winning 19
  and losing two. It is now only one short of equalling England’s all
  time record of 22 consecutive matches without a draw between 1884-85
  and 1891-92 with 17 wins and five losses.

• The defeat was Mike Atherton’s 21st in 54 matches. Only Allan Border
  has lost more matches (22) than Atherton.

• The win was Steve Waugh’s 20th in 27 matches. He became the eighth
  captain to win 20 or more matches after West Indian Clive Lloyd (36
  wins in 74 matches), Australian Allan Border (32 in 93), South African
  Hansie Cronje (27 in 53), Viv Richards (27 in 50), Australian Mark
  Taylor (26 in 50), Greg Chappell (21 in 48) and Englishman Peter May
  (20 in 41).

• The victory in this match also sealed the series in Australia’s
  favour. Australia has now won seven Ashes series in a row. The last
  occasion Australia lost a series to England was back in 1986-87 when
  England defeated Australia on latter’s soil by a 2-1 margin.

• Shane Warne was winning his ninth Man of the Match award – his third
  against England. He had last won an award way back in 1997-98 against
  South Africa in Sydney.