Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 368
Estimate: £60/90
England v Australia 2005. First International T20 Match in England. Two Centurion Bat Company full size bats. One nicely signed in ink to the face by fourteen members of the England team, the other by eleven of the Australian team. Signatures include Vaughan, Trescothick, Harmison, Flintoff, G. Jones, Pietersen, Collingwood (England), Ponting, McGrath, Gillespie, Gilchrist, Martyn, Katich, Hogg, Hussey (Australia) etc. Good signatures. Sold with two copy scorecards for the T20 match played at The Rose Bowl, Southampton 13th June 2005, both signed by the captains, Vaughan and Ponting. The bats heavily glued to mount card, the scorecards window mounted, where previously framed. Otherwise in good condition.
England (179) beat Australia (79) by 100 runs.