ICC Champions Trophy: Match No.3, Group A - Eng vs Aus statistical highlights

Australian Innings

# Australia had never chased a score of more than 260 in Champions Trophy.

# Philip Hughes averages 49.55 after his 11 ODIs. He has the 3rd highest batting average among the Aussie players who played over 10 innings.

Phillip Hughes

# George Bailey scored his 5th half century in ODIs and 2nd as captain in 4 matches.

# James Anderson, with his wicket of Matthew Wade, became the leading wicket taker for England in ODIs. He overcame Darren Gough’s 235 ODI wickets. Gough took 234 wickets for England and 1 wicket for ICC World XI.

# Most ODI Wickets for England: 237 James Anderson, 234 Darren Gough, 168 Andrew Flintoff, 155 Stuart Broad, 145 Sir Ian Botham.

# James Faulkner hit his maiden ODI fifty, 54*(42). He now has 126 runs in 4 innings with 1 half century at an average of 63.00.

# James Faulkner is the 9th Australian to score 50 at No.8. Only Brett Lee has scored 2 50s while batting at No.8.

# James Faulkner became the 87th Aussie player to score an ODI 50. Among other 86, 23 of them never score another fifty in their career.

# James Anderson’s figures of 3/30 are the best for Eng vs Aus in Champions Trophy.

# James Anderson, with 13 wickets in Champions Trophy, is the leading wicket taker for England. Next on the list are Stuart Broad and Steve Harmison with 11 wickets each.

Anderson is now the most successful bowler for England in ODIs with 237 wickets

# England won the match by 48 runs which is their 4th biggest win in Champions Trophy in terms of runs.

# England and Australia now played 4 matches in Champions Trophy. Both won 2 matches. England won both their matches at the same venue – Edgbaston, in Birmingham. Another victory was by 6 wickets in the 2004 semifinal.

# England won their 9th match in Champions Trophy in the 17 matches they played.

# Australia lost their 6th match in Champions Trophy in the 19 matches they played.

# Ian Bell received his 9th Man of the Match Award.

England play there next match against Sri Lanka on 13th June at The Oval.

Australia play there next match against New Zealand on 12th June at Brimingham.

That’s all from the statistical highlights of Match No.3 of ICC Champions Trophy between England and Australia.