Its 250 anyway for England

When England will play against Australia at Centurion in the Semi final of the ICC Champions Trophy on Friday ‘the figure 250’ hit in any case. So far England has played 521 ODI. They won 249 and also lost 249 of them. So whether England won or loss it would be its 250th ODI. England involved 18 no result and 5 tied games.Interestingly England won the toss for 250 times so far.This will be England’s 9th Semi finals in any multi national tournaments. They have played 8 till date with 4-win, 4-loss record.England and Australia have fought in 3 semi finals with only one won by former and 2 by later. In all ODI both have played 100 matches so far with Australia have won 58 of them. Both have played 7 matches at neutral venues and again Australia has upper hand with 5 wins. However in the Champions Trophy both have won one each in the previous TWO encounters.Ricky Ponting needs 52 runs to become highest run scorer between the two rivals. Graham Gooch has scored 1395 runs in 32 ODI against England while Ponting scored 1343 in 33 so far against the arch rivals.Brett Lee needs THREE wickets to over take former team mates Glenn McGrath’s 53 wickets against England. Brett Lee has 51 wickets in 27 matches Vs England while McGrath has played 33 matches for his 53 wickets.