| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | c Shoaib Malik b Abdul Razzaq | 40 | 39 | 30 | 6 | 1 | 133.33 | |
| MJ Clarke | b Mohammad Hafeez | 38 | 96 | 75 | 2 | 0 | 50.66 | |
| RT Ponting* | c Inzamam-ul-Haq b Shahid Afridi | 41 | 74 | 61 | 4 | 0 | 67.21 | |
| DR Martyn | b Abdul Razzaq | 43 | 66 | 60 | 4 | 0 | 71.66 | |
| DS Lehmann | b Shahid Afridi | 6 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| SM Katich | run out (Shoaib Malik/†Kamran Akmal) | 5 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 62.50 | |
| SR Watson | c Shahid Afridi b Iftikhar Anjum | 21 | 33 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 84.00 | |
| GB Hogg | b Naved-ul-Hasan | 13 | 25 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 76.47 | |
| B Lee | not out | 14 | 24 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| JN Gillespie | b Naved-ul-Hasan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GD McGrath | not out | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 250.00 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 4, w 3, nb 5) | 13 | ||||||
| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs; 196 mins) | 239 | (4.78 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Naved-ul-Hasan | 9 | 0 | 69 | 2 | 7.66 | (3nb, 1w) | ||
| Iftikhar Anjum | 10 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 3.30 | |||
| Abdul Razzaq | 9.5 | 2 | 51 | 2 | 5.18 | (2nb) | ||
| Shahid Afridi | 10 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 3.80 | (2w) | ||
| Mohammad Hafeez | 10 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 3.40 | |||
| Taufeeq Umar | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| Azhar Mahmood | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6.00 |
| Pakistan innings (target: 240 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Kamran Akmal† | c †Gilchrist b McGrath | 12 | 23 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 63.15 | |
| Taufeeq Umar | c McGrath b Lee | 3 | 20 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| Mohammad Hafeez | c Clarke b McGrath | 6 | 27 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 24.00 | |
| Yousuf Youhana | b Hogg | 51 | 89 | 57 | 5 | 0 | 89.47 | |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq* | lbw b McGrath | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Shoaib Malik | c Katich b Hogg | 14 | 40 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 60.86 | |
| Abdul Razzaq | c †Gilchrist b McGrath | 43 | 90 | 58 | 2 | 1 | 74.13 | |
| Shahid Afridi | run out (Lee/†Gilchrist) | 31 | 23 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 147.61 | |
| Azhar Mahmood | lbw b Gillespie | 13 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 92.85 | |
| Naved-ul-Hasan | b McGrath | 19 | 46 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Iftikhar Anjum | not out | 5 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 83.33 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 6, nb 2) | 11 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 45.4 overs; 203 mins) | 208 | (4.55 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Lee | 8 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 3.87 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| GD McGrath | 7.4 | 0 | 27 | 5 | 3.52 | (1w) | ||
| JN Gillespie | 10 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 3.50 | (2w) | ||
| SR Watson | 3.5 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 3.91 | (1nb) | ||
| GB Hogg | 10 | 0 | 63 | 2 | 6.30 | (1w) | ||
| DS Lehmann | 6.1 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 5.51 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series Australia won the best-of-3-finals 2-0 |
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Player of the match
GD McGrath (Australia) Player of the series B Lee (Australia) |
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Umpires
DJ Harper and RE Koertzen (South Africa) TV umpire PD Parker Match referee BC Broad (England) |
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Feb 6, 2005 One team gets the group hug, the other gets the therapy © Getty Images |
Feb 6, 2005 Ricky Ponting holds the VB Series trophy aloft © Getty Images |
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