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Test no. 1651

South Africa in England Test Series - 1st Test
England v South Africa

2003 season

Played at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 24,25,26,27,28 July 2003 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn


South Africa 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GC Smith	c Anderson b Giles	277	541	373	35	0	74.26
	HH Gibbs	c Butcher b Vaughan	179	305	236	29	1	75.84
	G Kirsten	c Stewart b Giles	44	105	95	7	0	46.31
	HH Dippenaar	c Butcher b Gough	22	83	62	3	0	35.48
	JA Rudolph	c Gough b Harmison	10	38	35	1	0	28.57
	MV Boucher	not out	15	49	34	1	0	44.11
	SM Pollock	not out	24	42	39	0	1	61.53
	Extras	(b 8, lb 11, nb 4)	23

	Total	(5 wickets dec; 145 overs; 584 mins)	594	(4.09 runs per over)

Did not bat RJ Peterson, D Pretorius, M Ntini, CM Willoughby

Fall of wickets1-338 (Gibbs, 74.5 ov), 2-438 (Kirsten, 101.5 ov), 3-514 (Dippenaar, 122.4 ov), 4-552 (Rudolph, 132.2 ov), 5-556 (Smith, 133.4 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
JM Anderson	16	2	92	0	5.75	(1nb)
D Gough	25	6	88	1	3.52	(2nb)
A Flintoff	25	6	97	0	3.88	(1nb)
SJ Harmison	27	2	104	1	3.85
AF Giles	42	2	153	2	3.64
MA Butcher	2	0	15	0	7.50
MP Vaughan	8	0	26	1	3.25


England 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	ME Trescothick	b Ntini	31	124	86	6	0	36.04
	MP Vaughan	c Boucher b Pretorius	156	415	286	24	1	54.54
	MA Butcher	lbw b Ntini	13	61	50	2	0	26.00
	N Hussain	lbw b Pollock	1	6	7	0	0	14.28
	A McGrath	c Rudolph b Pretorius	34	98	69	5	0	49.27
	AJ Stewart	b Pretorius	38	131	87	7	0	43.67
	A Flintoff	lbw b Pretorius	40	75	57	7	1	70.17
	AF Giles	b Pollock	41	109	83	8	0	49.39
	D Gough	c Rudolph b Ntini	1	29	18	0	0	5.55
	SJ Harmison	b Ntini	0	1	2	0	0	0.00
	JM Anderson	not out	0	12	4	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 19, lb 6, w 11, nb 17)	53

	Total	(all out; 122.4 overs; 534 mins)	408	(3.32 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-66 (Trescothick, 26.6 ov), 2-132 (Butcher, 41.1 ov), 3-133 (Hussain, 42.2 ov), 4-222 (McGrath, 64.6 ov), 5-306 (Vaughan, 94.4 ov), 6-311 (Stewart, 96.4 ov), 7-374 (Flintoff, 112.5 ov), 8-398 (Gough, 119.4 ov), 9-398 (Harmison, 119.6 ov), 10-408 (Giles, 122.4 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
SM Pollock	27.4	10	51	2	1.84	(7nb, 1w)
M Ntini	28	8	114	4	4.07	(2nb)
CM Willoughby	20	7	46	0	2.30	(2w)
D Pretorius	25	2	115	4	4.60	(4nb, 4w)
RJ Peterson	22	9	57	0	2.59


South Africa 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GC Smith	b Giles	85	100	70	10	2	121.42
	HH Gibbs	b Anderson	9	32	21	0	0	42.85
	G Kirsten	c McGrath b Harmison	1	7	10	0	0	10.00
	HH Dippenaar	not out	28	72	46	2	0	60.86
	JA Rudolph	st Stewart b Giles	8	12	10	0	0	80.00
	Extras	(lb 2, nb 1)	3

	Total	(4 wickets dec; 26 overs; 113 mins)	134	(5.15 runs per over)

Did not bat

MV Boucher, SM Pollock, RJ Peterson, D Pretorius, M Ntini, CM Willoughby

Fall of wickets1-30 (Gibbs, 7.2 ov), 2-32 (Kirsten, 8.5 ov), 3-114 (Smith, 23.1 ov), 4-134 (Rudolph, 25.6 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
SJ Harmison	6	0	34	1	5.66	(1nb)
JM Anderson	10	1	37	1	3.70
AF Giles	8	0	45	2	5.62
A Flintoff	2	0	16	0	8.00


England 2nd innings (target: 321 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	ME Trescothick	not out	52	136	94	9	0	55.31
	MP Vaughan	c Pollock b Peterson	22	89	61	1	1	36.06
	N Hussain	not out	23	47	49	5	0	46.93
	Extras	(b 8, lb 5)	13

	Total	(1 wicket; 34 overs; 136 mins)	110	(3.23 runs per over)

Did not bat MA Butcher, A McGrath, A Flintoff,

AJ Stewart, AF Giles, D Gough, SJ Harmison, JM Anderson

Fall of wickets1-72 (Vaughan, 21.2 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
SM Pollock	7	3	6	0	0.85
M Ntini	4	0	38	0	9.50
RJ Peterson	13	3	33	1	2.53
D Pretorius	10	6	20	0	2.00

Toss South Africa, who chose to bat first
Series 5-match series level 0-0

Player of the match GC Smith (South Africa)

Umpires DJ Harper (Australia) and S Venkataraghavan (India)
TV umpire JW Lloyds
Match referee RS Madugalle (Sri Lanka)

Close of play
24 Jul day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 398/1 (GC Smith 178*, G Kirsten 26*, 91 ov)
25 Jul day 2 - no play
26 Jul day 3 - England 1st innings 25/0 (ME Trescothick 17*, MP Vaughan 4*, 8 ov)
27 Jul day 4 - England 1st innings 374/7 (AF Giles 9*, 112.5 ov)
28 Jul day 5 - England 2nd innings 110/1 (34 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Scorers: DE Wainwright & RJ Orgill
4th Umpire - JF Steele

Day 1
HH Gibbs 50 in 141 mins off 96 balls, 9x4
GC Smith 50 in 154 mins off 115 balls, 9x4
HH Gibbs 100 in 194 mins off 138 balls, 18x4, 1x6
GC Smith 100 in 224 mins off 161 balls, 16x4
1st wicket partnership record for South Africa against England passing the 260 set by B Mitchell and IJ Siedle in Cape Town 1930/31
HH Gibbs 150 in 243 mins off 188 balls, 26x4, 1x6
GC Smith 150 in 321 mins off 231 balls, 21x4

Day 2
Play abandoned for the day at 3.15pm

Day 3
GC Smith 200 in 413 mins off 285 balls, 27x4
GC Smith 250 in 490 mins off 346 balls, 32x4

Day 4
MP Vaughan 50 in 168 mins off 108 balls, 9x4
MP Vaughan 100 in 262 mins off 169 balls, 15x4, 1x6
MP Vaughan 150 in 382 mins off 267 balls, 23x4, 1x6

Day 5
GC Smith 50 in 78 mins off 50 balls, 5x4, 1x6
ME Trescothick 50 in 98 mins off 73 balls, 9x4