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''See also: [[2005 English cricket season]]''

The period of the '''2005 English cricket season from 15 to 30 June''' started with another surprise - Australia were beaten in their final NatWest Series warm-up match by Somerset, or more specifically Graeme Smith and [[Sanath Jayasuriya]], who put on 197 for Somerset's first wicket.

The first NatWest series match saw England easily defeat Bangladesh at [[the Oval]] by 10 wickets. The last County Championship round before the mid-season Twenty20 break saw Surrey beat Hampshire, Middlesex beat Glamorgan, Kent beat Warwickshire and Sussex and Nottinghamshire draw to leave Kent top, and Glamorgan bottom of the first division. In the second division, Lancashire beat Derbyshire, who remained bottom; Leicestershire beat second-placed Worcestershire and leaders Durham drew with Northamptonshire. The last round of the totesport League before the break left Essex and Middlesex at the top of Division One, with Nottinghamshire and Gloucestershire propping them up. Durham held top place in Division Two, with Surrey languishing one place below Scotland at the bottom.

The second NatWest match on [[18 June]] saw what was said by [[Cricinfo]], a leading cricket news website, to be the biggest-ever upset in one-day cricket{{mn|cricinfo|1}}<ref name="cricinfo">[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/bangladesh/content/story/211416.html Ten biggest one-day upsets, by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, published 18 June 2005]</ref>, which led to wild celebrations in [[Dhaka]] as Bangladesh restricted World Champions Australia to 249 for 5, before [[Mohammed Ashraful]]'s 100 assisted the Bangladeshis in reaching their target with four balls and five wickets to spare. With England scoring a narrow three wicket victory against Australia, the Aussies finished the weekend bottom of the NatWest table, with England well on top. [[20 June]] saw the second tsunami appeal match of the season, this time a Twenty20 affair at [[the Oval]]. A(contracted; show full)or 8 was ultimately overcome by the Aussie with six wickets and eleven balls left after they had wobbled earlier in the innings. At the same time, the Twenty20 Cup was continuing apace, and [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] (610 for 5 declared) beat [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] (129 and 268), with [[Salil Oberoi]]'s 247 gaining him congratulations from former Indian [[Test cricket|Test]] [[cricketer]] [[Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi|Nawab of Pataudi junior]]
{{mn|telegraph|2}}<ref name="telegraph">[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050710/asp/look/story_4965846.asp Eye on England - The Telegraph, Kolkata, published 10 July 2005]</ref>.

==Tour match==
====Somerset v Australians (15 June)====
'''''Somerset won by four wickets'''''

[[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] shocked everyone with a nail-biting win over [[Australia cricket team]] at [[Taunton]], their first win over the Australians since [[1977 English cricket season|1977]]. Somerset were placed mid-table in the second division of the National League, and no one believed they should have any chance against an Australian team(contracted; show full)n over, but Khaled Mahmud's bowling at the death to [[Andrew Symonds]] left a bit to be desired, as Australia could take the necessary runs and win by eleven balls and six wickets to spare. Interestingly, a Bangladeshi - Shahriar Nafees - got the Man of the Match award, possibly for his effort to keep the match exciting after Bangladesh had crumbled to 75 for 5.
[http://live.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005/OD_TOURNEYS/NWS/SCORECARDS/AUS_BDESH_NWS_ODI9_30JUN2005.html (Cricinfo scorecard)]

==References==

*{{mnb|cricinfo|1}} [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/bangladesh/content/story/211416.html Ten biggest one-day upsets, by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, published 18 June 2005]
*{{mnb|telegraph|2}} [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050710/asp/look/story_4965846.asp Eye on England - The Telegraph, Kolkata, published 10 July 2005]<references />

{{2005 English cricket season chronology}}

[[Category:2005 English cricket season|06-15]]