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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 4th February 2005 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by 18 runs |
| Umpires | BF Bowden, SJ Davis |
| TV umpire | RL Parry |
| Referee | BC Broad |
| Player of the Match | A Symonds |
| Articles | Abdul Razzaq cleared of dissent by ICC |
| Many Positives from a Defeat! | |
| VB Series First Final, Pak v Aus, 04 February 2005 - Urdu Match Report | |
| Aussies draw first blood in Tri-series finals | |
| List of all articles | |
| Pictures | Abdul Razzaq found not guilty of dissent |
| Andrew Symonds congratulated by Brett Lee |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | c Abdul Razzaq b Mohammad Khalil | 24 | 42 | 54 | 2 | - | 57.14 |
| MJ Clarke | lbw b Naved-ul-Hasan | 9 | 22 | 35 | 1 | - | 40.91 |
| *RT Ponting | b Iftikhar Anjum | 11 | 15 | 23 | 1 | - | 73.33 |
| DR Martyn | st Kamran Akmal b Shahid Afridi | 53 | 78 | 100 | - | - | 67.95 |
| A Symonds | c Inzamam-ul-Haq b Abdul Razzaq | 91 | 101 | 119 | 7 | - | 90.10 |
| DS Lehmann | c Kamran Akmal b Shahid Afridi | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| SM Katich | c sub b Abdul Razzaq | 9 | 17 | 19 | - | - | 52.94 |
| SR Watson | c Mohammad Hafeez b Abdul Razzaq | 4 | 5 | 9 | - | - | 80.00 |
| B Lee | b Naved-ul-Hasan | 13 | 12 | 15 | 2 | - | 108.33 |
| JN Gillespie | not out | 3 | 3 | 11 | - | - | 100.00 |
| GD McGrath | run out (Kamran Akmal->Iftikhar Anjum) | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 100.00 |
| Extras | (1 b, 8 lb, 3 nb, 7 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49 overs) | 237 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-29 (Clarke, 8.3 ov), 2-51 (Gilchrist, 12.3 ov), 3-53 (Ponting, 13.2 ov), 4-190 (Martyn, 40.2 ov), 5-190 (Lehmann, 40.3 ov), 6-213 (Katich, 45.2 ov), 7-213 (Symonds, 45.3 ov), 8-220 (Watson, 47.1 ov), 9-235 (Lee, 48.5 ov), 10-237 (McGrath, 49 ov) | |||||||
| Pakistan bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Naved-ul-Hasan | 9 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 27.00 | 5.56 |
| Iftikhar Anjum | 8 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 2 | - | 48.00 | 3.38 |
| Mohammad Khalil | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 7.50 |
| Shahid Afridi | 10 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 30.00 | 5.00 |
| Abdul Razzaq | 10 | 0 | 33 | 3 | 1 | - | 20.00 | 3.30 |
| Mohammad Hafeez | 8 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.75 |
| Pakistan innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| Salman Butt | lbw b Lee | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| +Kamran Akmal | c Gillespie b McGrath | 4 | 4 | 10 | - | - | 100.00 |
| Mohammad Hafeez | c Watson b McGrath | 13 | 39 | 47 | 2 | - | 33.33 |
| Yousuf Youhana | b Lee | 2 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 50.00 |
| *Inzamam-ul-Haq | c McGrath b Lee | 51 | 83 | 115 | 1 | 1 | 61.45 |
| Shoaib Malik | c Lehmann b Gillespie | 66 | 89 | 106 | 3 | 2 | 74.16 |
| Abdul Razzaq | run out (Symonds) | 3 | 4 | 8 | - | - | 75.00 |
| Shahid Afridi | c Katich b Gillespie | 26 | 15 | 31 | - | 3 | 173.33 |
| Naved-ul-Hasan | c Martyn b McGrath | 29 | 29 | 54 | 4 | - | 100.00 |
| Iftikhar Anjum | not out | 19 | 32 | 41 | 1 | - | 59.38 |
| Mohammad Khalil | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 219 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Salman Butt, 0.2 ov), 2-7 (Kamran Akmal, 1.4 ov), 3-9 (Yousuf Youhana, 2.4 ov), 4-27 (Mohammad Hafeez, 11.6 ov), 5-118 (Inzamam-ul-Haq, 32.5 ov), 6-123 (Abdul Razzaq, 34.4 ov), 7-153 (Shoaib Malik, 38.2 ov), 8-171 (Shahid Afridi, 40.3 ov), 9-216 (Naved-ul-Hasan, 49.4 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Lee | 10 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 1 | - | 20.00 | 2.30 |
| McGrath | 10 | 3 | 34 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.40 |
| Gillespie | 10 | 0 | 47 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 30.00 | 4.70 |
| Watson | 9 | 1 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.22 |
| Lehmann | 4 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.25 |
| Symonds | 7 | 0 | 45 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.43 |