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InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | in-depth coverage > Ashes Series 2002-2003 > Ashes: Butcher’s ton peps up England at Sydney 14.54 IST 02nd Jan 2003 By IndiaExpress Bureau Mark Butcher cashed in on four lives to score his third century against Australia and lift English hopes of avoiding a dreaded Ashes series whitewash in the fifth and final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 2. Butcher, dropped twice and survivor of two vociferous appeals, bounced back from an underachieving series to claim his sixth Test hundred in his 50th Test for England to savor one of their best days on tour. Supported by a 166-run third-wicket stand with skipper Nasser Hussain (75), Butcher provided the tourists with a slow scoring but nonetheless steady start to opening day of the fifth Test. Butcher was finally out four overs before stumps when he dragged a Brett Lee thunderbolt on to his stumps for 124. Butcher batted for 337 minutes, faced 276 balls and hit 19 boundaries. At stumps, England had crawled to 264/5 with John Crawley on six and Alec Stewart ending the day for successive fours to be not out 20 off 13 balls. Australia were shooting for only the second Ashes clean sweep in history, but doing it without their bowling trumps, Glenn McGrath (422 wickets) and Shane Warne (491), and for long periods were up against it. The pro-Steve Waugh home crowd gave the Australian skipper a mighty ovation when he came on to help the bowlers and snared the wicket of Robert Key for 3. Waugh, who could be playing in his 156th and last Test, trapped Key lbw inside the final hour to have England at 210/4 in the 76th over. England's openers Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick faced the music after Hussain won his fourth toss of the series. Lee, Australia's most impressive bowler, thundered down a sensational five-over opening spell full of ferocity and magnificent outswingers and troubled Vaughan in his opening maiden over before getting him to faint edge to wicketkeeper Gilchrist off the first ball of his second over. Vaughan, the leading Test scorer in 2002, began the New Year with a duck. Vaughan scored 145 in the last Melbourne Test and finished the year with 1,481 runs, putting him ahead of Indian maestro Sachin Tendulkar (1,392), fellow Indian Rahul Dravid (1357) and Australian Matthew Hayden (1,161). Trescothick went for 19 in the over after first hour drinks when he edged Bichel and Gilchrist dived across in front of first-slipper Martin Love to pluck the catch in his outstretched left glove. in-depth coverage > Ashes Series 2002-2003 > |
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