- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR5.1 inseamer to the left hander, Fleming around the wicket, Saeed trying a cover drive, inside edge onto middle and off stump 21/24.4 prodding his bat at it, trying to glide it away to the 3rd man, wide of the slips, but he doesn't account for the gymnastics of Mark Waugh, leaping to his right from 2nd slip 21/119.4 puts this one into the covers, but dispatches himself instead, onto the front foot, driving, the captain dives forward and rolls taking a good clean catch low to the ground 68/323.4 leg spinner, pitched up a little, on the leg stump, Ijaz onto the back foot for some reason, trying to defend, misses, into the off stump, fantastic delivery 77/430.1 coming forward outside the off stump, playing the defence close to the pad, ball makes have just shaved the outside edge, Sheppy gives it, Inzamam isn't happy and is going to double the time it takes to walk to the pavilion 104/627.1 pushing at it wide of the off stump, trying to play it into the pads, faint outside edge, Moin isn't happy, but Bucky the Batsman Slayer gives him 91/532 he was playing a sweep virtually every ball, and so indeed he gets out to it, ball was pitched up, bat goes over the top of it, into the pads, Bucknor nods his head before raising the finger after the trademarked pause 113/737 trying to drive on the off side, but didn't keep it on the ground, perhaps deceived by the usual lack of pace from Moody, Moody bends down the mile to catch it near the ankles 129/837.2 swinging trying to loft over the mid wicket on one knee, only problem was that it wasn't high enough and went straight to the fielder, more than a minor problem that 129/939 short and at the chest, trying to defend it away, does so, but there's a brilliant catch by Ponting at the 3rd slip, leaping a huge distance forward and to his right, ball sticks in his right hand 132/10Extras25 (lb 10, nb 2, w 13)TOTAL132 all out (39 Overs, RR: 3.38)Fall of wickets: 1-21 (Wajahatullah Wasti, 4.4 ov), 2-21 (Saeed Anwar, 5.1 ov), 3-68 (Abdul Razzaq, 19.4 ov), 4-77 (Ijaz Ahmed, 23.4 ov), 5-91 (Moin Khan, 27.1 ov), 6-104 (Inzamam-ul-Haq, 30.1 ov), 7-113 (Shahid Afridi, 31.6 ov), 8-129 (Azhar Mahmood, 36.6 ov), 9-129 (Wasim Akram, 37.2 ov), 10-132 (Saqlain Mushtaq, 38.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB GD McGrath 9 3 13 2 1.44 0 0 DW Fleming 6 0 30 1 5 4 2 PR Reiffel 10 1 29 1 2.9 2 0 TM Moody 5 0 17 2 3.4 1 0 SK Warne 9 1 33 4 3.66 2 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR10.1 pitched up outside the off stump, driven hard on the off side to Inzamam at mid off, Pakistan take a wicket 75/117.4 seemed to be trying a lazy glide down to the 3rd man, no footwork, easy catch for Moin 112/2Extras5 (lb 1, nb 3, w 1)TOTAL133/2 (20.1 Overs, RR: 6.59)Fall of wickets: 1-75 (Adam Gilchrist, 10.1 ov), 2-112 (Ricky Ponting, 17.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Wasim Akram 8 1 41 1 5.12 1 2 Shoaib Akhtar 4 0 37 0 9.25 0 1 Abdul Razzaq 2 0 13 0 6.5 0 0 Azhar Mahmood 2 0 20 0 10 0 0 Saqlain Mushtaq 4.1 0 21 1 5.04 0 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
Pakistan , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Player Of The Series
Series result
Australia won the 1999 ICC World Cup
Match number
Season
Match days
20 June 1999 (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Match Referee
Match Notes
- Reserve umpire: CW Smith (WI)
- 12th Men: BP Julian (Australia) and Mushtaq Ahmed (Pakistan)
- Start of match delayed by 30 minutes to 11:15am after morning rain. Lunch break rescheduled to 2:45pm to 3:15pm, and close of play extended to 6:45pm. However, upon the early finish of the Pakistan innings at just prior to 2:15pm, the Australia innings was recheduled to begin at 3:00pm.
- AC Gilchrist 50 off 33 balls, 8x4 1x6
- Match was completed at 4:32pm
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