2007 Cricket World Cup: Ireland vs Australia

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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 McGrath
Ireland: 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)

Sources

"40th Match, Super Eights: Australia v Ireland at Bridgetown, Apr 13, 2007" — Cricinfo, April 13, 2007

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