ICC World Cup - 40th match, Super Eights
Australia won by 9 wickets (with 226 balls remaining)
| Ireland innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JP Bray | b McGrath | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| WTS Porterfield | lbw b Tait | 1 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9.09 | |
| EJG Morgan | c Hayden b McGrath | 0 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| NJ O'Brien† | b Tait | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KJ O'Brien | c Hodge b Clark | 16 | 51 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 64.00 | |
| AR White | c Hogg b McGrath | 6 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 | |
| DT Johnston* | b Tait | 17 | 30 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 68.00 | |
| WK McCallan | c Tait b Symonds | 5 | 32 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 27.77 | |
| JF Mooney | run out (Tait) | 23 | 53 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 52.27 | |
| D Langford-Smith | c Ponting b Hogg | 2 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| WB Rankin | not out | 4 | 25 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 21.05 | |
| Extras | (w 15, nb 1) | 16 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 30 overs; 138 mins) | 91 | (3.03 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GD McGrath | 7 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 2.42 | |||
| SW Tait | 6 | 1 | 39 | 3 | 6.50 | (1nb, 9w) | ||
| SR Clark | 8 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 2.37 | (1w) | ||
| GB Hogg | 6 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1.50 | (2w) | ||
| A Symonds | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2.33 |
| Australia innings (target: 92 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | b Johnston | 34 | 38 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 136.00 | |
| MEK Hussey | not out | 30 | 57 | 41 | 3 | 1 | 73.17 | |
| A Symonds | not out | 15 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 166.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 8, nb 1) | 13 | ||||||
| Total | (1 wicket; 12.2 overs; 57 mins) | 92 | (7.45 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat ML Hayden, RT Ponting*, MJ Clarke, BJ Hodge, GB Hogg, SR Clark, SW Tait, GD McGrath |
| Fall of wickets1-62 (Gilchrist, 8.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D Langford-Smith | 3 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 9.00 | (2w) | ||
| WB Rankin | 4.2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 5.53 | (4w) | ||
| DT Johnston | 3 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 6.00 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| JF Mooney | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14.00 | |||
| WK McCallan | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to field Points Australia 2, Ireland 0 |
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Player of the match
GD McGrath (Australia) |
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Umpires
BF Bowden (New Zealand) and RE Koertzen (South Africa) TV umpire SA Bucknor Match referee RS Madugalle (Sri Lanka) Reserve umpire SJA Taufel (Australia) |
| Match notes |
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Apr 13, 2007 Trent Johnston celebrates a wicket © Getty Images |
Apr 13, 2007 An Australia fan holds aloft her country's flag after their crushing nine-wicket win © Getty Images |
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