Ashes Tour 2009

The Ashes Tour 2009 was the tour of the Australian national cricket team that included the 65th edition of the Ashes and was held between June 1 and September 20, 2009. The Ashes Series 2009 itself was played in the form of five test matches between England and Australia. The venues were both English stadiums. The tour, which was part of the 2009 international cricket season , included the test series and a number of other games between the two teams in the summer of 2009. England won the test series 2-1 and Australia won the ODI series 6-1 and the Twenty20 series ended in a draw.

prehistory

Both teams contested in advance the ICC World Twenty20 2009 , in which Australia were eliminated in the preliminary round and England in the Super 8 round. Before that, Australia did a tour in the United Arab Emirates against Pakistan and England had the West Indies touring . Cardiff made its debut as a test stadium in the 1st Test.

Stages

London (Lord's) London (oval) Cardiff Leeds Birmingham Nottingham Southampton Manchester Chester-le-Street

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and were set on May 5, 2009.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Edgbaston Cricket Ground	Birmingham	24,803	3rd test
Sophia Gardens	Cardiff	15,643	1st test
Emirates Durham	Chester-le-Street	17,000	7. ODI
Trent Bridge	Nottingham	15,350	5th & 6th ODI
Headingley Stadium	Leeds	17,000	4th test
The oval	London	23,500	5. test; 1. ODI
Lord's Cricket Ground	London	30,000	2. test; 2nd & 4th ODI
Old Trafford Cricket Ground	Manchester	19,000	1st & 2nd T20
Rose Bowl	Southampton	6,500	3. ODI

Squad

Australia named their Test squad on May 20, and their limited overs squad on August 11, 2009. England named their Test squad on July 5 and their limited overs squad on August 17, 2009 and their T20 -Cadre

Squad lists

test		ODI		Twenty20
England	Australia	England	Australia	England	Australia
Andrew Strauss ( K ) James Anderson Ian Bell Ravi Bopara Stuart Broad Paul Collingwood Alastair Cook Andrew Flintoff Steve Harmison Graham Onions Monty Panesar Kevin Pietersen Matt Prior ( wk ) Ryan Sidebottom Graeme Swann Jonathan Trott	Ricky Ponting ( K ) Michael Clarke Stuart Clark Brad Haddin ( wk ) Nathan Hauritz Ben Hilfenhaus Phillip Hughes Michael Hussey Mitchell Johnson Simon Katich Brett Lee Graham Manou ( wk ) Andrew McDonald Marcus North Peter Siddle Shane Watson	Andrew Strauss ( K ) James Anderson Ravi Bopara Tim Bresnan Stuart Broad Paul Collingwood Joe Denly Andrew Flintoff Eoin Morgan Matt Prior ( wk ) Adil Rashid Owais Shah Ryan Sidebottom Graeme Swann Luke Wright	Ricky Ponting ( K ) Nathan Bracken Michael Clarke Callum Ferguson Brad Haddin ( wk ) Nathan Hauritz Ben Hilfenhaus James Hopes Michael Hussey Mitchell Johnson Brett Lee Tim Paine ( wk ) Peter Siddle Shane Watson Cameron White	Paul Collingwood ( K ) James Anderson Ravi Bopara Tim Bresnan Stuart Broad Joe Denly Andrew Flintoff Eoin Morgan Matt Prior ( wk ) Adil Rashid Owais Shah Ryan Sidebottom Graeme Swann Jonathan Trott Luke Wright	Michael Clarke ( K ) Callum Ferguson Brad Haddin ( wk ) Nathan Hauritz Ben Hilfenhaus David Hussey Mitchell Johnson Brett Lee Dirk Nannes Adam Voges David Warner Shane Watson Cameron White

Tour matches

June 24-26 Scorecard	Hove	Australians 349-7d (90) & 379-7d (95.1)	-	Sussex 311 (80.2) & 373-7 (89)
		draw

July 1-4 Scorecard	Worcester	Australians 358 (96.4) & 438-4d (103)	-	Northamptonshire 352 (96) & 162-4 (47.2)
		draw

July 24-26 Scorecard	Northampton	Australians 308-8d (79) & 270-3d (53)	-	Northamptonshire 226-7d (49.3) & 217 (64.1)
		Australia wins with 135 runs

August 15-16 Scorecard	Northampton	England Lions 340-9d (81)	-	Australians 237 (80.4)
		Australia wins with 103 runs

Australia was originally supposed to play this game against Kent , but they qualified for the final day of the 2009 Twenty20 Cup at the same time.

ODI in Ireland

August 27th scorecard	Belfast	England 203-9 (50)	-	Ireland 113-9 (20)
		England wins with 3 runs ( D / L method )

ODI in Scotland

August 28th scorecard	Edinburgh	Australia 345 (50)	-	Scotland 156 (39.3)
		Australia wins with 180 runs

Testing

First test in Cardiff

July 8-12 scorecard	Cardiff	England 435 (106.5) & 252-9 (105)	-	Australia 674-6d (181)
		draw

After Australia had advanced down to a wicket on an innings win, the two remaining English batsmen James Anderson and Monty Panesar secured the draw over the last 11.3 overs.

Second test on the London (Lord's)

July 15-20 scorecard	London (Lord's)	England 425 (101.4) & 311-6d (71.2)	-	Australia 215 (63) & 406 (107)
		England wins with 115 runs

It was the first time since 1934 that England could win an Ashes test at Lord's. England was fined for playing too slowly.

Third test in Birmingham

July 30th - August 3rd scorecard	Birmingham	Australia 263 (70.4) & 375-5 (112.2)	-	England 376 (93.3)
		draw

Fourth test in Leeds

August 7th - 9th scorecard	Leeds	England 102 (33.5) & 263 (61.3)	-	Australia 445 (104.1)
		Australia wins with one innings and 80 runs

Fifth test in London (oval)

August 20-24 Scorecard	London (oval)	England 332 (90.5) & 373-9d (95)	-	Australia 160 (52.5) ​​& 348 (102.2)
		England wins with 197 runs

Twenty 20 International

First Twenty20 in Manchester

August 30th scorecard	Manchester	Australia 145-4 (20)	-	England 4-2 (1.1)
		No result

Second Twenty20 in Manchester

September 1st scorecard	Manchester	England	-	Australia
		Called off

One-Day International

First ODI in London (oval)

September 4th scorecard	London (oval)	Australia 260-5 (50)	-	England 256-8 (50)
		Australia wins with 4 runs

Second ODI in London (Lord's)

September 6th scorecard	London (Lord's)	Australia 249-8 (50)	-	England 210 (46.1)
		Australia wins with 39 runs

Third ODI in Southampton

September 9 scorecard	Southampton	England 228-9 (50)	-	Australia 230-4 (48.3)
		Australia wins with 6 wickets

Fourth ODI in London (Lord's)

September 12th scorecard	London (Lord's)	England 220 (46.3)	-	Australia 221-3 (43.4)
		Australia wins with 7 wickets

Fifth ODI in Nottingham

September 15 scorecard	Nottingham	England 299 (50)	-	Australia 302-6 (48.2)
		Australia wins with 4 wickets

Sixth ODI in Nottingham

September 17th scorecard	Nottingham	Australia 296-8 (50)	-	England 185 (41)
		Australia wins with 111 runs

Seventh ODI in Chester-le-Street

September 20 scorecard	Chester-le-Street	Australia 176 (45.5)	-	England 177-6 (40)
		England wins with 4 wickets

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Andrew Strauss	England	5	9	474	52.66	161	1	3
Michael Clarke	Australia	5	8th	448	64.00	136	2	2
Ricky Ponting	Australia	5	8th	385	48.12	150	1	2
Marcus North	Australia	5	8th	367	52.42	125 *	2	1
Simon Katich	Australia	5	8th	341	42.62	122	1	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Ben Hilfenhaus	Australia	5	180.5	22nd	27.45	4/60	0	0
Peter Siddle	Australia	5	161.4	20th	30.80	5/21	1	0
Mitchell Johnson	Australia	5	162.1	20th	32.55	5/69	1	0
Stuart Broad	England	5	154.1	18th	30.22	6/91	2	0
Graeme Swann	England	5	170.2	14th	40.50	4/38	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Andrew Strauss	England	7th	7th	267	38.14	63	0	2
Cameron White	Australia	7th	6th	260	52.00	105	1	1
Michael Clarke	Australia	6th	6th	253	50.60	62 *	0	3
Tim Paine	Australia	7th	7th	237	33.85	111	1	1
Ricky Ponting	Australia	4th	4th	233	58.25	126	1	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Brett Lee	Australia	6th	53.1	12	22.91	5/49	1	0
Shane Watson	Australia	7th	44	10	22.00	3/36	0	0
Mitchell Johnson	Australia	6th	49.3	10	26.40	3/24	0	0
Graeme Swann	England	5	40	9	19.00	5/28	1	0
Nathan Hauritz	Australia	7th	58	9	28.77	2/23	0	0

Twenty20
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Cameron White	Australia	1	1	55	55.00	55	0	1
David Warner	Australia	1	1	33	33.00	33	0	0
Michael Clarke	Australia	1	1	27	-	27 *	0	0
Adam Voges	Australia	1	1	11	-	11 *	0	0
Shane Watson	Australia	1	1	10	10.00	10	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Paul Collingwood	England	1	4th	2	10.00	2/20	0	0
Stuart Broad	England	1	4th	2	16.50	2/33	0	0
Mitchell Johnson	Australia	1	0.1	1	1.00	1/1	0	0
Brett Lee	Australia	1	1	1	3.00	1/3	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Michael Clarke Andrew Strauss
ODI	Cameron White

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Ricky Ponting
2nd test	Andrew Flintoff
3rd test	Michael Clarke
4th test	Marcus North
5th test	Stuart Broad
1. ODI	Callum Ferguson
2. ODI	Mitchell Johnson
3. ODI	Cameron White
4. ODI	Brett Lee
5. ODI	Ricky Ponting
6. ODI	Tim Paine
7. ODI	Graeme Swann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cardiff to host 2009 Ashes Test ( English ) Telegraph. April 20, 2006. Accessed December 31, 2015.
2. ↑ Cardiff to host first Ashes Test ( English ) Cricinfo. April 11, 2008. Accessed December 31, 2015.
3. ↑ 2009 Ashes itinerary announced ( English ) Cricinfo. May 5, 2008. Accessed December 31, 2015.
4. ^ Symonds misses out on Ashes squad (English) , BBC. May 20, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015. 
5. ↑ Ponting rested for the Twenty20 games (English) , BCC. August 11, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015. 
6. ↑ Harmison misses out on Test squad ( English ) BBC. July 5, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015.
7. ↑ Flintoff named in England squads (English) , BBC. August 17, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015. 
8. ↑ England pull off great escape ( English ) Cricinfo. July 12, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015.
9. ↑ England fined for slow over-rate ( English ) Cricinfo. July 22, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015.
10. ↑ Records / The Ashes, 2009 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
11. ↑ Records / The Ashes, 2009 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
12. ↑ Records / NatWest Series [Australia in England , 2009 / Most runs] ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
13. ↑ Records / NatWest Series [Australia in England , 2009 / Most wickets] ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
14. ↑ Records / Australia in England T20I Series, 2009 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
15. ↑ Records / Australia in England T20I Series, 2009 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 13, 2016.