| a10511 | |
| Venue | County Ground, Northampton on 17th May 1997 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australians won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australians won by 17 runs (Duckworth/Lewis method) |
| Umpires | MJ Kitchen, P Willey |
| TV umpire | KJ Lyons |
| Player of the Match | MB Loye |
| Australians innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *MA Taylor | lbw b Curran | 76 | 121 | 6 | - | 62.81 | |
| MJ Slater | b Taylor | 33 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 157.14 | |
| MTG Elliott | c Snape b Taylor | 4 | 4 | - | - | 100.00 | |
| ME Waugh | c Curran b Snape | 38 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 95.00 | |
| RT Ponting | b Penberthy | 2 | 8 | - | - | 25.00 | |
| JL Langer | c Sales b Hughes | 20 | 30 | 1 | - | 66.67 | |
| +AC Gilchrist | c Bailey b Taylor | 40 | 44 | 2 | 1 | 90.91 | |
| BP Julian | run out (Snape) | 1 | 10 | - | - | 10.00 | |
| SK Warne | c Bailey b Penberthy | 1 | 3 | - | - | 33.33 | |
| MS Kasprowicz | c Taylor b Curran | 1 | 6 | - | - | 16.67 | |
| JN Gillespie | not out | 1 | 1 | - | - | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (4 lb, 1 nb, 10 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 47.4 overs) | 232 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-43 (Slater), 2-47 (Elliott), 3-126 (Waugh), 4-130 (Ponting), 5-168 (Langer), 6-204 (Taylor), 7-209 (Julian), 8-210 (Warne), 9-227 (Kasprowicz), 10-232 (Gilchrist) | |||||||
| Northamptonshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Taylor | 8.4 | 0 | 44 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 17.33 | 5.08 |
| Hughes | 7 | 0 | 57 | 1 | 2 | - | 42.00 | 8.14 |
| Curran | 9 | 2 | 34 | 2 | - | 1 | 27.00 | 3.78 |
| Penberthy | 10 | 0 | 39 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 3.90 |
| Snape | 10 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 3.70 |
| Bailey | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.67 |
| Northamptonshire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| A Fordham | c Gilchrist b Gillespie | 2 | 13 | - | - | 15.38 | |
| MB Loye | not out | 65 | 82 | 5 | 1 | 79.27 | |
| *RJ Bailey | c and b Julian | 10 | 36 | - | - | 27.78 | |
| KM Curran | c Gilchrist b Julian | 12 | 19 | 1 | - | 63.16 | |
| AL Penberthy | c Waugh b Warne | 19 | 31 | - | - | 61.29 | |
| TC Walton | st Gilchrist b Warne | 2 | 6 | - | - | 33.33 | |
| DJG Sales | not out | 11 | 23 | - | - | 47.83 | |
| JN Snape | did not bat | ||||||
| +D Ripley | did not bat | ||||||
| JG Hughes | did not bat | ||||||
| JP Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 9 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 35 overs) | 134 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Fordham), 2-40 (Bailey), 3-55 (Curran), 4-108 (Penberthy), 5-113 (Walton) | |||||||
| Australians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gillespie | 6 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 4 | - | 36.00 | 2.67 |
| Kasprowicz | 7 | 2 | 15 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.14 |
| Julian | 6 | 0 | 27 | 2 | 2 | - | 18.00 | 4.50 |
| Ponting | 4 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 5.50 |
| Waugh | 6 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.83 |
| Warne | 6 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 1 | - | 18.00 | 3.50 |