2006–07 Commonwealth Bank Series
| 2006–07 Commonwealth Bank Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Part of the English cricket team in Australia in 2006–07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 12 January 2007 – 11 February 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Won by  England (2–0 in final series) |
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| Player of the series | Ricky Ponting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | |||
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 Australia
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England
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 New Zealand
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| Captains | |||
| Ricky Ponting | Michael Vaughan Andrew Flintoff | Stephen Fleming | |
| Most runs | |||
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Ponting (438) Hayden (382) Clarke (268) |
Collingwood (379) Bell (292) Joyce (288) |
Taylor (282) Vincent (263) Oram (261) |
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| Most wickets | |||
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McGrath (13) Lee (12) Bracken (12) |
Flintoff (12) Plunkett (12) Panesar (9) |
Bond (11) Franklin (10) Vettori (10) |
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The Commonwealth Bank Series was the name of the One Day International cricket tournament in Australia for the 2006–07 season. It was a tri-nation series between Australia, England and New Zealand.
Australia booked a place in the final after just seven matches in the tournament, and having participated in just five, with five games left to play. The other place in the final came down to the last match of the series as New Zealand and England both had won only 2 games; England won this semi-final of sorts.
England won the final series by two games to nil to lift the trophy, making it their first major one-day tournament win since 1997 and their first Australian tri-series win since 20 years previous, when they also won the Ashes.
Matches played in the series were as follows:
A win earns 4 points, a tie or no result = 2 points, a bonus = 1 point and a loss = 0 points.
If the team batting first match and restricts its opponents to 80% of its total, it gains a bonus point. If the team batting second wins the match in 40 overs, it gains a bonus point.
A team's run rate will be calculated by reference to the runs scored in an innings divided by the number of overs faced.
In the event of teams finishing on equal points, the right to play in the final will be determined as follows:
England won the toss and elected to bat. Kevin Pietersen was the only England player scoring 82. It was debated whether this effected his dismissal getting out caught playing a big shot, slightly after a Glen McGrath bouncer which injured Pietersen for the rest of the tour. In the end England scored a mediocre total of 242. The English team's bowling attack couldn't have got to a worse start after Gilchrist and Hayden smashed 16 off the first over. After Hayden and Gilchrist got out, Ponting and Clarke took over both going above 50. Australia cruised to an 8 wicket victory with 5 overs remaining.
All of the Australian batsman scored reasonable scores that gave Australia a big first innings total. Shane Bond got a one-day hat trick while cleaning up the tail. New Zealand couldn't chase down Australia, Andrew Symonds named man of the match.
Man of the match Andrew Flintoff scored 72 and hit the winning run with just one ball remaining to get their first win on tour.
England were bowled out for a low score and got early wickets and slowed the run rate to even up the match. Mike Hussey had a controversial decision being not out after nicking a ball to Nixon. He went on to become the man of the match for his 46 including a slog sweep which went for six.
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