ICC World Cup - 27th match, Pool A
Australia won by 7 wickets (with 15 balls remaining)
| Zimbabwe innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| CB Wishart | b Gillespie | 10 | 30 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 41.66 | |
| GJ Whittall | c Hogg b Gillespie | 1 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| A Flower | b Hogg | 62 | 116 | 91 | 8 | 0 | 68.13 | |
| GW Flower | run out (†Gilchrist) | 37 | 90 | 58 | 4 | 0 | 63.79 | |
| DD Ebrahim | b Hogg | 15 | 32 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| T Taibu† | b McGrath | 23 | 78 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 52.27 | |
| DA Marillier | c Ponting b Hogg | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AM Blignaut | c & b Lee | 54 | 28 | 28 | 8 | 2 | 192.85 | |
| HH Streak* | not out | 28 | 28 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 147.36 | |
| BA Murphy | b McGrath | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| DT Hondo | not out | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 3, w 3, nb 4) | 14 | ||||||
| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs; 214 mins) | 246 | (4.92 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GD McGrath | 9 | 2 | 24 | 2 | 2.66 | (1w) | ||
| JN Gillespie | 9 | 1 | 50 | 2 | 5.55 | (1w) | ||
| A Symonds | 10 | 1 | 35 | 0 | 3.50 | |||
| B Lee | 10 | 0 | 63 | 1 | 6.30 | (3nb, 1w) | ||
| GB Hogg | 8 | 0 | 46 | 3 | 5.75 | (1nb) | ||
| DR Martyn | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 5.25 |
| Australia innings (target: 247 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | c sub (SM Ervine) b Marillier | 61 | 96 | 64 | 8 | 0 | 95.31 | |
| ML Hayden | c GW Flower b Hondo | 34 | 67 | 39 | 5 | 0 | 87.17 | |
| RT Ponting* | c & b Murphy | 38 | 64 | 63 | 2 | 0 | 60.31 | |
| DR Martyn | not out | 50 | 102 | 70 | 2 | 0 | 71.42 | |
| DS Lehmann | not out | 56 | 66 | 48 | 6 | 0 | 116.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 8) | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (3 wickets; 47.3 overs; 199 mins) | 248 | (5.22 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat A Symonds, MG Bevan, GB Hogg, B Lee, JN Gillespie, GD McGrath |
| Fall of wickets1-89 (Hayden, 14.1 ov), 2-113 (Gilchrist, 21.4 ov), 3-156 (Ponting, 32.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| HH Streak | 6 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 6.33 | (1w) | ||
| AM Blignaut | 10 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 5.40 | (4w) | ||
| DT Hondo | 9 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 5.44 | |||
| GJ Whittall | 3.3 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 7.42 | |||
| DA Marillier | 10 | 1 | 32 | 1 | 3.20 | (3w) | ||
| BA Murphy | 9 | 0 | 48 | 1 | 5.33 |
| Match details |
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Toss Zimbabwe, who chose to bat Points Australia 4, Zimbabwe 0 |
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Player of the match
AM Blignaut (Zimbabwe) |
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Umpires
BF Bowden (New Zealand) and DL Orchard (South Africa) TV umpire BG Jerling (South Africa) Match referee GR Viswanath (India) |
| Match notes |
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