Friday, April 13, 2007
Australia beat Ireland by 9 wickets in the Super 8 phase in the World Cup at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Australia are now assured of a place in the semi-finals of the World Cup, the first team to achieve as such in this year’s competition, having bowled Ireland out in just 3 hours, and swiftly hit the 92 required in under an hour: finishing the match before the lunch break.
The out of form Mike Hussey was pushed up the order in place of Matthew Hayden to get some time at the crease, and posted his highest score of the World Cup with 30*.
Toss: Australia won, and elected to field first.
| File:Flag of Ireland cricket team.svg Ireland innings | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Jeremy Bray | b McGrath | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| William Porterfield | lbw b Tait | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9.09 | |
| Eoin Morgan | c Hayden b McGrath | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Niall O’Brien | b Tait | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Kevin O’Brien | c Hodge b Clark | 16 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 64.00 | |
| Andrew White | c Hogg b McGrath | 6 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 | |
| Trent Johnston | b Tait | 17 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| Kyle McCallan | c Tait b Symonds | 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 27.77 | |
| John Mooney | run out (Tait) | 23 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 52.27 | |
| Dave Langford-Smith | c Ponting b Hogg | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| Boyd Rankin | not out | 4 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 21.05 | |
| Extras | (w 15; nb 1) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out; 30 overs) | 91 | 7 | 0 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Bray, 1.0 ov), 2-2 (Porterfield, 3.1 ov), 3-2 (Niall O’Brien, 3.2 ov), 4-12 (Morgan, 4.3 ov), 5-32 (White, 10.3 ov), 6-42 (Kevin O’Brien, 13.2 ov), 7-54 (Johnston, 16.3 ov), 9-80 (Langford-Smith, 23.1 ov), 10-91 (Mooney, 30.0 ov)
| Australia bowling | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | |
| Glenn McGrath | 7 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 2.42 | |
| Shaun Tait | 6 | 1 | 39 | 3 | 6.50 | |
| Stuart Clark | 8 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 2.37 | |
| Brad Hogg | 6 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1.50 | |
| Andrew Symonds | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2.33 | |
| Australia innings (Target: 92 runs from 50 overs) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Adam Gilchrist | b Johnston | 34 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 136.00 | |
| Michael Hussey | not out | 30 | 41 | 3 | 1 | 73.17 | |
| Andrew Symonds | not out | 15 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 166.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 4; w 8; nb 1) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (1 Wickets; 12.2 overs) | 92 | 8 | 2 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1-62 (Gilchrist, 8.5 ov)
Did not bat: Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Stuart Clark, Shaun Tait, Glenn McGrath
| File:Flag of Ireland cricket team.svg Ireland bowling | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | |
| Dave Langford-Smith | 3 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 9.00 | |
| Boyd Rankin | 4.2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 5.53 | |
| Trent Johnston | 3 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 6.00 | |
| John Mooney | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14.00 | |
| Kyle McCallan | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 | |
Australia: A C Gilchrist (wkt), M L Hayden, R T Ponting (capt), M J Clarke, A Symonds, M E K Hussey, B J Hodge, G B Hogg, S R Clark, S W Tait, G D McGrathIreland: J P Bray, W T S Porterfield, E J G Morgan, N J O’Brien (wkt), A R White, J F Mooney, K J O’Brien, W K McCallan, D T Johnston (capt), D Langford-Smith, W B Rankin
Player of the match: G D McGrath (Australia)
Umpires: B F Bowden (New Zealand) and R E Koertzen (South Africa)TV umpire: SA Bucknor (West Indies)Match referee: R S Madugalle (Sri Lanka)Reserve umpire: S J A Taufel (Australia)