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| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 9th June 1979 (60-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | England won by 6 wickets |
| Points | England 4; Australia 0 |
| Umpires | DJ Constant, BJ Meyer |
| Scorers | MP Ringham (Australia), E Solomon (England) |
| Player of the Match | GA Gooch |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AMJ Hilditch | b Boycott | 47 | 108 | 136 | 2 | - | 43.52 |
| WM Darling | lbw b Willis | 25 | 61 | 82 | 3 | - | 40.98 |
| AR Border | c Taylor b Edmonds | 34 | 74 | 87 | 4 | - | 45.95 |
| *KJ Hughes | c Hendrick b Boycott | 6 | 13 | 13 | 1 | - | 46.15 |
| GN Yallop | run out | 10 | 20 | 23 | 1 | - | 50.00 |
| GJ Cosier | run out | 6 | 20 | 19 | - | - | 30.00 |
| TJ Laughlin | run out | 8 | 22 | 40 | - | - | 36.36 |
| +KJ Wright | lbw b Old | 6 | 15 | 20 | - | - | 40.00 |
| RM Hogg | run out | 0 | 5 | 24 | - | - | 0.00 |
| AG Hurst | not out | 3 | 10 | 4 | - | - | 30.00 |
| G Dymock | not out | 4 | 12 | 13 | - | - | 33.33 |
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb, 1 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 60 overs) | 159 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-56 (Darling), 2-97 (Hilditch), 3-111 (Hughes), 4-131 (Border), 5-132 (Yallop), 6-137 (Cosier), 7-150 (Wright), 8-153 (Laughlin), 9-153 (Hogg) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Willis | 11 | 2 | 20 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 1.82 |
| Hendrick | 12 | 2 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.00 |
| Old | 12 | 2 | 33 | 1 | - | - | 72.00 | 2.75 |
| Botham | 8 | 0 | 32 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Edmonds | 11 | 1 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 2.27 |
| Boycott | 6 | 0 | 15 | 2 | - | - | 18.00 | 2.50 |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *JM Brearley | c Wright b Laughlin | 44 | 147 | 169 | 2 | - | 29.93 |
| G Boycott | lbw b Hogg | 1 | 5 | 11 | - | - | 20.00 |
| DW Randall | c Wright b Hurst | 1 | 3 | 5 | - | - | 33.33 |
| GA Gooch | lbw b Laughlin | 53 | 96 | 164 | 6 | - | 55.21 |
| DI Gower | not out | 22 | 30 | 44 | 2 | - | 73.33 |
| IT Botham | not out | 18 | 14 | 31 | 2 | - | 128.57 |
| PH Edmonds | did not bat | ||||||
| +RW Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| CM Old | did not bat | ||||||
| M Hendrick | did not bat | ||||||
| RGD Willis | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (10 lb, 11 nb) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 47.1 overs) | 160 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Boycott), 2-5 (Randall), 3-113 (Gooch), 4-124 (Brearley) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Hogg | 9 | 1 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 2.78 |
| Hurst | 10 | 3 | 33 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.30 |
| Dymock | 11 | 2 | 19 | 0 | - | - | - | 1.73 |
| Cosier | 8 | 1 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.00 |
| Laughlin | 9.1 | 0 | 38 | 2 | - | - | 27.50 | 4.15 |