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Nervous nineties is the period of batsman's innings when his or her score is between 90 and 99. During this phase many players bat extremely cautiously in order to avoid being out before they obtain a century.

Monday, January 30, 1995

4th Test: Australia v England at Adelaide, 26-30 Jan 1995

Test # 1284 (1280/284)
The Ashes, 1994/95, 4th Test
Australia v England
Adelaide Oval
26,27,28,29,30 January 1995 (5-day match)

Result: England won by 106 runs
Series: Australia leads the 5-Test series 2-1

Toss: England
Umpires: PD Parker and S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
TV Umpire: SJ Davis
Match Referee: JR Reid (NZ)
Test Debuts: GS Blewett, PE McIntyre (Aus).
Man of the Match: PAJ DeFreitas

Close of Play:

  • Day 1: England 196/2 (Gatting 50*, Thorpe 16*)
  • Day 2: England 353, Australia 81/0 (Slater 36*, Taylor 43*)
  • Day 3: Australia 394/5 (Blewett 91*, Healy 72*)
  • Day 4: Australia 419, England 220/6 (Crawley 49*, DeFreitas 20*)
    England 1st innings                                             R   M   B  4 6
    GA Gooch c ME Waugh b Fleming 47 147 105 4 0
    *MA Atherton c Boon b Fleming 80 273 217 8 0
    MW Gatting c SR Waugh b McIntyre 117 410 286 14 0
    GP Thorpe c Taylor b Warne 26 35 35 5 0
    JP Crawley b Warne 28 119 110 2 0
    +SJ Rhodes c Taylor b McDermott 6 28 20 1 0
    CC Lewis c Blewett b McDermott 10 33 20 1 0
    PAJ DeFreitas c Blewett b McIntyre 21 29 32 2 1
    ARC Fraser run out (sub [GD McGrath]/McIntyre) 7 24 22 0 0
    DE Malcolm b McDermott 0 3 1 0 0
    PCR Tufnell not out 0 6 5 0 0
    Extras (b 2, lb 5, w 2, nb 2) 11
    Total (all out, 141.3 overs, 558 minutes) 353

    FoW: 1-93 (Gooch), 2-175 (Atherton), 3-211 (Thorpe),
    4-286 (Crawley), 5-293 (Rhodes), 6-307 (Lewis),
    7-334 (DeFreitas), 8-353 (Fraser), 9-353 (Malcolm),
    10-353 (Gatting).

    Bowling O M R W
    McDermott 41 15 66 3 (2nb)
    Fleming 25 6 65 2 (1w)
    Blewett 16 4 59 0
    Warne 31 9 72 2
    McIntyre 19.3 3 51 2 (1w)
    ME Waugh 9 1 33 0

    Australia 1st innings R M B 4 6
    MJ Slater c Atherton b DeFreitas 67 152 114 6 0
    *MA Taylor lbw b Lewis 90 267 199 7 0
    DC Boon c Rhodes b DeFreitas 0 9 5 0 0
    ME Waugh c Rhodes b Fraser 39 110 64 3 0
    SR Waugh c Atherton b Lewis 19 45 33 2 0
    GS Blewett not out 102 261 180 12 0
    +IA Healy c Rhodes b Malcolm 74 173 121 6 0
    SK Warne c Thorpe b Fraser 7 16 12 1 0
    DW Fleming c Rhodes b Malcolm 0 4 4 0 0
    PE McIntyre b Malcolm 0 18 6 0 0
    CJ McDermott c Crawley b Fraser 5 6 7 1 0
    Extras (b 2, lb 7, nb 7) 16
    Total (all out, 121.5 overs, 535 minutes) 419

    FoW: 1-128 (Slater), 2-130 (Boon), 3-202 (Taylor),
    4-207 (ME Waugh), 5-232 (SR Waugh), 6-396 (Healy),
    7-405 (Warne), 8-406 (Fleming), 9-414 (McIntyre),
    10-419 (McDermott).

    Bowling O M R W
    Malcolm 26 5 78 3 (2nb)
    Fraser 28.5 6 95 3 (2nb)
    Tufnell 24 5 64 0
    DeFreitas 20 3 70 2
    Lewis 18 1 81 2 (3nb)
    Gooch 5 0 22 0

    England 2nd innings R M B 4 6
    GA Gooch c Healy b McDermott 34 133 101 3 0
    *MA Atherton lbw b ME Waugh 14 62 55 0 0
    MW Gatting b ME Waugh 0 6 5 0 0
    GP Thorpe c Warne b McDermott 83 140 117 10 0
    JP Crawley c & b ME Waugh 71 212 152 5 0
    +SJ Rhodes c Fleming b Warne 2 21 8 0 0
    CC Lewis b Fleming 7 23 19 0 0
    PAJ DeFreitas c Healy b ME Waugh 88 120 95 9 2
    ARC Fraser c McDermott b ME Waugh 5 27 11 0 0
    DE Malcolm not out 10 8 4 1 1
    PCR Tufnell lbw b Warne 0 5 3 0 0
    Extras (b 6, lb 8) 14
    Total (all out, 94.5 overs, 383 minutes) 328

    FoW: 1-26 (Atherton), 2-30 (Gatting), 3-83 (Gooch),
    4-154 (Thorpe), 5-169 (Rhodes), 6-181 (Lewis),
    7-270 (Crawley), 8-317 (Fraser), 9-317 (DeFreitas),
    10-328 (Tufnell).

    Bowling O M R W
    McDermott 27 5 96 2
    Fleming 11 3 37 1
    Warne 30.5 9 82 2
    ME Waugh 14 4 40 5
    McIntyre 8 0 36 0
    Blewett 4 0 23 0

    Australia 2nd innings (target: 263 runs) R M B 4 6
    *MA Taylor c Thorpe b Malcolm 13 37 32 2 0
    MJ Slater c Tufnell b Malcolm 5 51 29 0 0
    DC Boon c Rhodes b Fraser 4 8 7 1 0
    ME Waugh c Gatting b Tufnell 24 58 33 3 0
    SR Waugh b Malcolm 0 2 1 0 0
    GS Blewett c Rhodes b Lewis 12 74 54 0 0
    +IA Healy not out 51 168 136 4 0
    SK Warne lbw b Lewis 2 18 20 0 0
    CJ McDermott c Rhodes b Lewis 0 2 4 0 0
    DW Fleming lbw b Lewis 24 112 66 2 0
    PE McIntyre lbw b Malcolm 0 10 4 0 0
    Extras (b 3, lb 5, nb 13) 21
    Total (all out, 61.1 overs, 274 minutes) 156

    FoW: 1-17 (Taylor), 2-22 (Boon), 3-22 (Slater),
    4-23 (SR Waugh), 5-64 (ME Waugh), 6-75 (Blewett),
    7-83 (Warne), 8-83 (McDermott), 9-152 (Fleming),
    10-156 (McIntyre).

    Bowling O M R W
    Malcolm 16.1 3 39 4 (1nb)
    Fraser 12 1 37 1 (2nb)
    DeFreitas 11 3 31 0
    Lewis 13 4 24 4 (7nb)
    Tufnell 9 3 17 1 (3nb)

    • 12th Men: GD McGrath (Aus) and JE Benjamin (Eng)

    • Eng 1st innings
    • Gatting 100 (255b 356m 12x4)

    • Eng 2nd innings
    • DeFreitas 88 (95b 9x4 2x6)
    • Malcolm 10 (4b 1x4 1x6)

    • Day 1: Storm caused an early finish (1+ hr lost). Hick is out of rest of the tour with a stiff back. Gatting (on 20) was bowled off a McDermott no-ball.
    • Day 2: New ball taken at the start of the 89th over. Fleming left the field after his 25th over, injured hamstring (105th over of the Eng 1st inns).
    • Day 4: McDermott had gone to the hospital and just made it to the ground to bat last and enable Blewett score his maiden test century on his debut.
    • Day 5: England added 108 in 85 minutes, 31 runs from the first three overs with the newball (taken at 85 overs) DeFreitas hit 44.446 off the last McDermott over. Australia were 83-8 just after tea. England won with 5.5 overs to spare.

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