- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR4.1 edged and gone! Powell bangs in a shorter one at a good pace, lands on about middle and leg and moves in a tad, Gilchrist hops up and defends, maybe he was trying to get bat out of the way, but there's the thinnest of edges through and Ramdin moves to his right and holds a good catch low down! Gilchrist starts to walk before Asad Rauf raises the finger and West Indies have drawn first blood 10/147.1 full in the zone, no room to work with, and Hayden scoops this in the air straight down the throat of Samuels at long-off, and an excellent innings comes to an end 297/614.4 and a piece of brilliance gets rid of a brillant batsman! A good length delivery outside off stump, Ponting lunges forward and drives into the covers and sets off, Sarwan collects the ball and has one stump to aim at, and doesnt miss! A superb throw that catches Ponting just short of his crease, even though he was going full stretch! Great work! 76/230.5 and Bravo gets his man! Clarke plays half-cock forward to one that moves in appreciably from outside off stump, gets rapped on the leg, everyone appeals and after a good thought umpire Rauf raises the dreaded finger 174/335.6 edged and gone! Samuels fires one wide of off stump, Symonds stands there and looks to bring the bat down late to cheekily run it fine, but ends up with a thin edge that Ramdin neatly snaps up! 208/440.5 bowled 'em! Hussey reaches out to drive a very full delivery and ends up dragging it back onto off stump! A tame dismissal and Powell's gotten a second in his final over! 234/5Extras21 (b 1, lb 9, nb 3, w 8)TOTAL322/6 (50 Overs, RR: 6.44)Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Adam Gilchrist, 4.1 ov), 2-76 (Ricky Ponting, 14.4 ov), 3-174 (Michael Clarke, 30.5 ov), 4-208 (Andrew Symonds, 35.6 ov), 5-234 (Michael Hussey, 40.5 ov), 6-297 (Matthew Hayden, 47.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB DBL Powell 10 2 53 2 5.3 40 7 1 0 0 JE Taylor 10 0 67 0 6.7 30 5 2 3 0 CD Collymore 10 0 56 0 5.6 32 5 1 2 0 CH Gayle 4 0 29 0 7.25 8 2 0 0 2 DJ Bravo 7 0 49 2 7 14 5 0 2 0 MN Samuels 9 0 58 1 6.44 20 3 2 1 1
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR7.2 and a wicket with his second ball for McGrath. Short of a length, but Gayle premeditated it, getting a top-edge off a pull and it's skied to Watson at mid-on 16/23.5 gone! Full, straight, swinging into Chanderpaul's pads who plays all around it 11/125.2 impatience has cost Sarwan. Charging Hogg, taking him on the full, he flat-batted him straight to midwicket. A careless, wasteful shot and the pressure has told 91/49.4 oh dear. That is a truly dreadful shot, skipping down the pitch, he was nowhere near to the pitch of the ball. Trying to hit McGrath back over his head, a one-handed, unbalanced top edge handed a simple skier to Symonds at cover 20/335.3 a huge appeal and that's a tame effort from Lara, a full delivery and he came down the track, yorking himself in the end, and that raps him on the knee at daisy height. The newly shorn Hogg is loving it, as are the Australia players, who swarm around him 156/628.3 lazy shot - another complacent, unbalanced drive, not getting on top of it and it spoons straight to Ponting at cover 107/544.2 gone! A slower ball, on middle stump and just angling across the batsman who tried to smash it over the bowler's head...a thin outside edge which Gilchrist gobbles 217/937.4 gone! Leg break which would have gone on to clip off and middle about four-fifths of the way up the stumps. Australia continue to close in on victory now - it's just a matter of time 172/742.4 and he's gone. Big indrift for Symonds there, foxing the batsman who tried to sweep and was trapped in front 199/845.3 gone! And it's all over. Full and straight from Tait; Powell takes another step outside leg, and is comprehensively bowled 219/10Extras16 (b 1, w 15)TOTAL219 all out (45.3 Overs, RR: 4.81)Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 3.5 ov), 2-16 (Chris Gayle, 7.2 ov), 3-20 (Marlon Samuels, 9.4 ov), 4-91 (Ramnaresh Sarwan, 25.2 ov), 5-107 (Dwayne Bravo, 28.3 ov), 6-156 (Brian Lara, 35.3 ov), 7-172 (Dwayne Smith, 37.4 ov), 8-199 (Jerome Taylor, 42.4 ov), 9-217 (Denesh Ramdin, 44.2 ov), 10-219 (Daren Powell, 45.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB NW Bracken 9 1 25 1 2.77 38 2 0 1 0 SW Tait 7.3 0 43 2 5.73 27 5 0 7 0 GD McGrath 8 1 31 3 3.87 33 4 0 0 0 SR Watson 7 0 31 0 4.42 22 3 0 0 0 GB Hogg 10 0 56 3 5.6 30 2 2 2 0 A Symonds 4 0 32 1 8 7 2 0 1 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
West Indies , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
09.30 start, First Session 09.30-13.00. Interval 13.00-13.45, Second Session 13.45-17.15
Match days
27,28 March 2007 (50-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Australia 2, West Indies 0
Close of Play
- Tue, 27 Mar - day 1 - Australia 322/6 (SR Watson 33*, GB Hogg 5*, 50 ov)
- Wed, 28 Mar - day 2 - West Indies 219 (45.3 ov) - end of match
Match Notes
- Australia: 50 runs in 9.5 overs (62 balls), Extras 8
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 42 balls (ML Hayden 18, RT Ponting 28, Ex 5)
- Drinks: Australia - 76/2 in 14.4 overs (ML Hayden 25)
- Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
- Australia: 100 runs in 20.3 overs (127 balls), Extras 9
- ML Hayden: 50 off 72 balls (6 x 4)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 58 balls (ML Hayden 28, MJ Clarke 20, Ex 2)
- Australia: 150 runs in 27.1 overs (170 balls), Extras 13
- Drinks: Australia - 174/3 in 30.5 overs (ML Hayden 78)
- Australia: 200 runs in 34.4 overs (216 balls), Extras 14
- ML Hayden: 100 off 110 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Australia: 250 runs in 44.2 overs (275 balls), Extras 15
- ML Hayden: 150 off 137 balls (13 x 4, 4 x 6)
- 6th Wicket: 50 runs in 32 balls (ML Hayden 38, SR Watson 11, Ex 1)
- Rain: Australia - 286/5 in 46.2 overs (ML Hayden 153, SR Watson 11)
- Australia: 300 runs in 47.6 overs (298 balls), Extras 18
- Innings Break: West Indies - 0/0
- Rain: West Indies - 0/0
- End Of Day: West Indies - 0/0
- Reserve day used
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- Drinks: West Indies - 35/3 in 15.0 overs (RR Sarwan 11, BC Lara 8)
- Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
- West Indies: 50 runs in 19.0 overs (120 balls), Extras 6
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 76 balls (RR Sarwan 15, BC Lara 34, Ex 3)
- West Indies: 100 runs in 26.6 overs (170 balls), Extras 8
- Drinks: West Indies - 107/5 in 28.3 overs (BC Lara 49)
- BC Lara: 50 off 62 balls (7 x 4)
- West Indies: 150 runs in 34.1 overs (215 balls), Extras 10
- West Indies: 200 runs in 42.4 overs (267 balls), Extras 15
- D Ramdin: 50 off 41 balls (6 x 4)
- Attendance Day 1 - 8,409
- Attendance Day 2 - 4,809
Match Coverage
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World Cup
| Super Eights | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
| AUS | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 2.4 |
| SL | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 1.483 |
| NZ | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 0.253 |
| SA | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 0.313 |
| ENG | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -0.394 |
| WI | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | -0.566 |
| BAN | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 | -1.514 |
| IRE | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 | -1.73 |
| Group A | |||||
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
| AUS | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3.433 |
| SA | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2.403 |
| NED | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -2.527 |
| SCOT | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -3.793 |
| Group B | |||||
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
| SL | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3.493 |
| BAN | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -1.523 |
| IND | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1.206 |
| BER | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -4.345 |
| Group C | |||||
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
| NZ | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2.138 |
| ENG | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0.418 |
| KENYA | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -1.194 |
| CAN | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -1.389 |
| Group D | |||||
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
| WI | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0.764 |
| IRE | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -0.092 |
| PAK | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0.089 |
| ZIM | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -0.886 |




