Australia versus England | The Ashes Cricket Series Since 1877

Ball No	Bowler	Description	Runs	Total
1	Panesar	Defended to Leg	0	0
2	Flintoff	Shoulders Arms	0	0
3	Flintoff	Streaky shot through Gully Region	4	4
4	Flintoff	Pushed through the covers	0	4
5	Flintoff	Hit on the pad while attempting a pull shot	0	4
6	Flintoff	Awesome shot through the covers, 2nd four of the over	4	8
7	Flintoff	Again misses an aggressive pull	0	8
8	Flintoff	No stroke offered	0	8
9	Flintoff	Dfensive stroke, straighter delivery	0	8
10	Flintoff	Again no shot offered, ball outisde off	0	8
11	Flintoff	Worked off his hip, good running	2	10
12	Flintoff	Punched off the back foot	0	10
13	Flintoff	Pull to deep midwicket	1	11
14	Panesar	Great aggressive shot through extra cover	4	15
15	Panesar	Sweeping fails to connect but scamper for leg byes	2lb	15
16	Panesar	Flicked down leg side to long-on	2	17
17	Panesar	Defended	0	17
18	Panesar	Late cut to third man	4	21
19	Panesar	Pulled to square leg for one run	1	22
20	Pietersen	Pietersen impresses, no run, good ball	0	22
21	Pietersen	Turned around the corner for two	2	24
22	Pietersen	Beaten by a cracker, flies past slips	1	25
23	Mahmood	Pulled around the corner, welcome back Saj !	4	29
24	Mahmood	Defends a straighter delivery	0	29
25	Mahmood	Timed through mid-wicket for three	3	32
26	Pietersen	Powerfull sweep, his sixth boundary	4	36
27	Pietersen	Gilchrist beaten by the spin	0	36
28	Pietersen	Swept in front of square	3	39
29	Pietersen	Pushed to off defensively	0	39
30	Pietersen	No run	0	39
31	Mahmood	Flamboyant attacking shot but fails to connect	0	39
32	Mahmood	Crashing shot through Mid-Wicket	4	43
33	Mahmood	Pushed off his legs	1	44
34	Panesar	Wide delivery no run	0	44
35	Panesar	Dancing down the track, one bounce into the fence	4	48
36	Panesar	Defended for no run	0	48
37	Panesar	Driven to Mid-Off	1	49
38	Mahmood	Crowd think he has his fifty, Dar signals a leg bye	1lb	49
39	Panesar	Wide delivery defended on the front foot	0	49
40	Panesar	Driven through cover and that's his fifty (his fastest Test 50)	2	51
41	Panesar	Awesome straight drive into the crowd	6	57
42	Panesar	Another straight drive but further back into the crowd	6	63
43	Panesar	Is there no stopping him ? Swing over Mid-Wicket	4	67
44	Panesar	We are not worthy, another maximum, same place	6	73
45	Mahmood	Eases it to Mid-Off	1	74
46	Hoggard	Magnificent Hook, another maximum this time off Hoggie	6	80
47	Hoggard	Dug out a fuller ball to Long-On	1	81
48	Harmison	Flick over Square-Leg	4	85
49	Harmison	Slower ball crashed through Mid-Wicket - Awesome !	4	89
50	Harmison	No run, Gilchrist having a rest	0	89
51	Harmison	Rest over, Pull shot for the third boundary of the over	4	93
52	Harmison	Late cut to Third-Man for two, five short of his century	2	95
53	Harmison	Keeps the strike with a single to Point	1	96
54	Hoggard	Single to Long-On - thinking about the 100 now	1	97
55	Hoggard	Very wide delivery, Gilchrist fails to connect - Record gone	0	97
56	Hoggard	Driven to cover for a single, Flintoff defends	1	98
57	Harmison	Driven to Long-On, Second Fastest Test Century	2	100
58	Harmison	Played to Mid-Wicket	1	101
59	Harmison	Worked off the back foot to Point	1	102

Hoggard's delibarate wide delivery, Gilchrist's 55th ball means that Viv Richard's 56 ball hundred remained the fastest ever Test Century against England back in 1986. Gilchrist's century is the fastest in the last 20 years of Test cricket and the second fastest ever.

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