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| Venue | Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad on 21st February 2011 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by 91 runs |
| Points | Australia 2; Zimbabwe 0 |
| Umpires | EAR de Silva (Sri Lanka), RA Kettleborough (England) |
| TV umpire | AM Saheba |
| Referee | RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka) |
| Reserve Umpire | SJA Taufel (Australia) |
| Player of the Match | SR Watson |
| Articles | Unstoppable Australia too good for hapless Zimbabwe |
| Pictures | Shane Watson plays a shot |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | Dots | S-Rate | |
| SR Watson | lbw b Cremer | 79 | 92 | 113 | 8 | 1 | 43 | 85.87 |
| +BJ Haddin | lbw b Utseya | 29 | 66 | 68 | 3 | - | 46 | 43.94 |
| *RT Ponting | run out (Mpofu) | 28 | 36 | 50 | - | - | 15 | 77.78 |
| MJ Clarke | not out | 58 | 55 | 77 | 4 | - | 15 | 105.45 |
| CL White | b Mpofu | 22 | 36 | 44 | - | - | 15 | 61.11 |
| DJ Hussey | b Price | 14 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 175.00 |
| SPD Smith | c Chakabva b Mpofu | 11 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 275.00 |
| MG Johnson | not out | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | - | 0 | 233.33 |
| SW Tait | did not bat | |||||||
| JJ Krejza | did not bat | |||||||
| B Lee | did not bat | |||||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 7 w) | 14 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 191 minutes, 50 overs) | 262 | ||||||
| Fall of wickets: | ||||||||
| 1-61 (Haddin, 18.5 ov), 2-140 (Watson, 31.2 ov), 3-144 (Ponting, 32.5 ov), 4-207 (White, 44.6 ov), 5-241 (Hussey, 48.1 ov), 6-254 (Smith, 49.1 ov) | ||||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | Dots | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | Econ |
| Mpofu | 9 | 0 | 58 | 2 | 2 | - | 26 | 8 | - | 27.00 | 6.44 |
| Price | 10 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 1 | - | 31 | 2 | 1 | 60.00 | 4.30 |
| Utseya | 10 | 2 | 43 | 1 | 2 | - | 31 | 4 | - | 60.00 | 4.30 |
| Cremer | 10 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 1 | - | 30 | - | 1 | 60.00 | 4.10 |
| Taylor | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 7.67 |
| Chigumbura | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 9.00 |
| Williams | 6 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | 15 | 1 | 1 | - | 4.83 |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | Dots | S-Rate | |
| BRM Taylor | b Tait | 16 | 24 | 53 | 1 | - | 13 | 66.67 |
| CK Coventry | c and b Lee | 14 | 24 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 58.33 |
| +T Taibu | c Watson b Johnson | 7 | 17 | 23 | 1 | - | 13 | 41.18 |
| CR Ervine | lbw b Johnson | 0 | 6 | 13 | - | - | 6 | 0.00 |
| *E Chigumbura | c Haddin b Krejza | 14 | 25 | 44 | 2 | - | 19 | 56.00 |
| SC Williams | c Watson b Tait | 28 | 40 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 70.00 |
| RW Chakabva | lbw b Krejza | 6 | 18 | 21 | - | - | 12 | 33.33 |
| P Utseya | c Ponting b Hussey | 24 | 45 | 52 | 1 | - | 27 | 53.33 |
| AG Cremer | c Haddin b Johnson | 37 | 51 | 51 | 4 | - | 27 | 72.55 |
| RW Price | not out | 5 | 19 | 25 | - | - | 14 | 26.32 |
| CB Mpofu | c Haddin b Johnson | 2 | 11 | 12 | - | - | 9 | 18.18 |
| Extras | (4 b, 9 lb, 2 nb, 3 w) | 18 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 190 minutes, 46.2 overs) | 171 | ||||||
| Fall of wickets: | ||||||||
| 1-22 (Coventry, 5.4 ov), 2-40 (Taibu, 10.3 ov), 3-40 (Taylor, 11.2 ov), 4-44 (Ervine, 12.3 ov), 5-88 (Chigumbura, 21.2 ov), 6-96 (Williams, 24.6 ov), 7-104 (Chakabva, 27.2 ov), 8-153 (Utseya, 39.2 ov), 9-167 (Cremer, 42.4 ov), 10-171 (Mpofu, 46.2 ov) | ||||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | Dots | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | Econ |
| Tait | 9 | 1 | 34 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 4 | - | 27.00 | 3.78 |
| Lee | 8 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 4 | 1 | 48.00 | 4.25 |
| Johnson | 9.2 | 2 | 19 | 4 | - | - | 43 | 1 | - | 14.00 | 2.04 |
| Krejza | 8 | 0 | 28 | 2 | - | - | 31 | 1 | 1 | 24.00 | 3.50 |
| Watson | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - | 12 | - | - | - | 2.33 |
| Smith | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | 11 | 1 | - | - | 4.80 |
| Hussey | 4 | 1 | 12 | 1 | - | - | 14 | - | - | 24.00 | 3.00 |