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Scorecard

Australia v England
Melbourne
Fourth Test Match

Australia beat England by an innings and 99 runs.

Batsman			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
England second innings
AJ Strauss	c Gilchrist	b Lee	31	107	2	-
AN Cook		b Clark	20	46	1	-
IR Bell	lbw	b McGrath	2	11	-	-
KP Pietersen		b Clark	1	8	-	-
PD Collingwood	c Langer	b Lee	16	38	-	-
A Flintoff	lbw	b Clark	25	45	2	-
CMW Read		not out	26	77	1	-
SI Mahmood	lbw	b Warne	0	2	-	-
SJ Harmison	lbw	b Warne	4	26	-	-
MS Panesar	c Clarke	b Lee	14	19	2	-
MJ Hoggard		b Lee	5	20	-	-
Extras	0b 12lb 1w 4nb		17
TOTAL:	all out , 65.5 overs		161
Fall of wickets: 1-41 (41 Cook, 64 mins), 2-48 (7 Bell, 18 mins), 3-49 (1 Pietersen, 11 mins), 4-75 (26 Collingwood, 50 mins), 5-90 (15 Strauss, 27 mins), 6-108 (18 Flintoff, 31 mins), 7-109 (1 Mahmood, 2 mins), 8-127 (18 Harmison, 44 mins), 9-146 (19 Panesar, 19 mins), 10-161 (15 Hoggard, 20 mins)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
B Lee	18.5	6	47	4
G D McGrath	12	2	26	1
S R Clark	16	6	30	3
S K Warne	19	3	46	2

Batsman			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Australia first innings
JL Langer	c Read	b Flintoff	27	29	3	-
ML Hayden	c Read	b Mahmood	153	265	13	2
B Lee	c Read	b Flintoff	0	1	-	-
RT Ponting	c Cook	b Flintoff	7	28	-	-
MEK Hussey		b Hoggard	6	20	-	-
MJ Clarke	c Read	b Harmison	5	5	-	-
A Symonds	c Read	b Harmison	156	220	15	1
AC Gilchrist	c Collingwood	b Mahmood	1	8	-	-
SK Warne		not out	40	54	6	-
SR Clark	c Read	b Mahmood	8	24	-	-
GD McGrath	c Bell	b Mahmood	0	6	-	-
Extras	0b 6lb 1w 9nb		16
TOTAL:	all out , 108.3 overs		419
Fall of wickets: 1-44 (44 Langer, 45 mins), 2-44 (0 Lee, - mins), 3-62 (18 Ponting, 37 mins), 4-79 (17 Hussey, 34 mins), 5-84 (5 Clarke, 5 mins), 6-363 (279 Hayden, 297 mins), 7-365 (2 Gilchrist, 7 mins), 8-383 (18 Symonds, 23 mins), 9-417 (34 Clark, 32 mins), 10-419 (2 McGrath, 7 mins)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
M J Hoggard	21	6	82	1
A Flintoff	22	1	77	3
S J Harmison	28	6	69	2
S I Mahmood	21.3	1	100	4
M S Panesar	12	1	52	0
P D Collingwood	3	0	20	0
K P Pietersen	1	0	13	0

Batsman			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
England first innings
AJ Strauss		b Warne	50	132	2	-
AN Cook	c Gilchrist	b Lee	11	37	-	-
IR Bell	lbw	b Clark	7	30	-	-
PD Collingwood	c Ponting	b Lee	28	82	4	-
KP Pietersen	c Symonds	b Warne	21	70	-	-
A Flintoff	c Warne	b Clark	13	31	1	-
CMW Read	c Ponting	b Warne	3	17	-	-
SI Mahmood	c Gilchrist	b McGrath	0	9	-	-
SJ Harmison	c Clarke	b Warne	7	12	1	-
MS Panesar	c Symonds	b Warne	4	19	-	-
MJ Hoggard		not out	9	10	1	-
Extras	2b 1lb 0w 3nb		6
TOTAL:	all out , 74.2 overs		159
Fall of wickets: 1-23 (23 Cook, 95 mins), 2-44 (21 Bell, 20 mins), 3-101 (57 Collingwood, 114 mins), 4-101 (0 Strauss, 4 mins), 5-122 (21 Flintoff, 35 mins), 6-135 (13 Read, 26 mins), 7-136 (1 Mahmood, 10 mins), 8-145 (9 Harmison, 11 mins), 9-146 (1 Pietersen, 14 mins), 10-159 (13 Panesar, 13 mins)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
B Lee	13	4	36	2
G D McGrath	20	8	37	1
S R Clark	17	6	27	2
A Symonds	7	2	17	0
S K Warne	17.2	4	39	5

England won the toss and decided to bat

Umpires: Aleem Dar, R E Koertzen

Australia:
J L Langer , M L Hayden , R T Ponting (capt) , M E K Hussey , M J Clarke , A Symonds , A C Gilchrist (wkt) , S K Warne , B Lee , S R Clark , G D McGrath
England:
A J Strauss , A N Cook , I R Bell , P D Collingwood , K P Pietersen , A Flintoff (capt) , C M W Read (wkt) , S I Mahmood , M J Hoggard , S J Harmison , M S Panesar