TheBreakdown
Full time12 July 1997
Australia
25–6
England
Aussie Stadium, Sydney | Gadigal, Australia · Tour 1997Head-to-head

Australia won by 19 points.

Scoring

  1. –CAustralia conversion · Matt Burke2–0
  2. –PAustralia penalty · John Eales5–0
  3. –TAustralia try · Matt Burke10–0
  4. –TAustralia try · Ben Tune15–0
  5. –TAustralia try · Tim Horan20–0
  6. –TAustralia try · George Gregan25–0
  7. –PEngland penalty · Tim Stimpson25–3
  8. –DEngland drop goal · Mike Catt25–6

Line-ups

Australia

  1. 1Cam BladesProp
  2. 2Michael FoleyHooker
  3. 3Ewen McKenzieProp
  4. 4Garrick MorganSecond row
  5. 5John EalesSecond row
  6. 6Daniel ManuFlanker
  7. 7Brett RobinsonFlanker
  8. 8Troy CokerNumber 8
  9. 9George GreganScrum-half
  10. 10Tim HoranFly-half
  11. 11Joe RoffWing
  12. 12James HolbeckCentre
  13. 13Jason LittleCentre
  14. 14Ben TuneWing
  15. 15Matt BurkeFull-back
  16. 16Stephen LarkhamBench
  17. 17Mitch HardyBench
  18. 18Sam PayneBench
  19. 19Matt CockbainBench
  20. 20Andrew BladesBench
  21. 21Marco CaputoBench
  22. 22David WilsonBench

England

  1. 1Graham RowntreeProp
  2. 2Mark ReganHooker
  3. 3Darren GarforthProp
  4. 4Nigel RedmanSecond row
  5. 5Simon ShawSecond row
  6. 6Lawrence DallaglioFlanker
  7. 7Richard HillFlanker
  8. 8Tim RodberNumber 8
  9. 9Matt DawsonScrum-half
  10. 10Mike CattFly-half
  11. 11Nick BealWing
  12. 12Phil De GlanvilleCentre
  13. 13Nick GreenstockCentre
  14. 14John BentleyWing
  15. 15Tim StimpsonFull-back
  16. 16Austin HealeyBench
  17. 17Alex KingBench
  18. 18Jon SleightholmeBench
  19. 19Kevin YatesBench
  20. 20Richard CockerillBench
  21. 21Ben ClarkeBench

Match officials

Sample data
Referee
Sample Referee
Assistant referee
Sample Assistant 1
Assistant referee
Sample Assistant 2
TMO
Sample TMO

Sample data Match officials is placeholder content: TheBreakdown has no data source for it yet, so nothing here is real.

Context

All-time, Australia 27–29 England, 1 drawn in 57 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Australia going in
England going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.