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| Venue | Telstra Dome, Melbourne on 9th October 2005 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by 156 runs |
| Umpires | Aleem Dar, DB Hair |
| TV umpire | SJA Taufel |
| Referee | RS Madugalle |
| Scorers | DC Kendix, KV O'Neill |
| Reserve Umpire | RE Koertzen |
| Player of the Match | SR Watson |
| Articles | Watson and Lee fire Aussies to another out of this world win |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | c and b Pollock | 32 | 31 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 103.23 |
| MJ Clarke | lbw b Ntini | 3 | 3 | 9 | - | - | 100.00 |
| *RT Ponting | c Lara b Muralitharan | 68 | 84 | 99 | 8 | 1 | 80.95 |
| DR Martyn | lbw b Vettori | 33 | 44 | 85 | 3 | - | 75.00 |
| A Symonds | c Sangakkara b Muralitharan | 1 | 5 | 8 | - | - | 20.00 |
| MEK Hussey | not out | 75 | 74 | 93 | 5 | 1 | 101.35 |
| SR Watson | not out | 66 | 66 | 88 | 4 | - | 100.00 |
| CL White | did not bat | ||||||
| B Lee | did not bat | ||||||
| NW Bracken | did not bat | ||||||
| GD McGrath | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 7 nb, 1 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 212 minutes, 50 overs) | 293 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15 (Clarke, 1.4 ov), 2-58 (Gilchrist, 8.5 ov), 3-143 (Ponting, 24.5 ov), 4-146 (Symonds, 26.3 ov), 5-148 (Martyn, 27.5 ov) | |||||||
| ICC World XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pollock | 9 | 0 | 67 | 1 | - | 6 | 54.00 | 7.44 |
| Ntini | 7 | 0 | 58 | 1 | - | 1 | 42.00 | 8.29 |
| Flintoff | 4.2 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.31 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 38 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.80 |
| Kallis | 1.4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.60 |
| Vettori | 10 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 3.40 |
| Gayle | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 |
| Sehwag | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.50 |
| ICC World XI innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CH Gayle | b Lee | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| V Sehwag | run out (Watson) | 37 | 40 | 89 | 4 | 1 | 92.50 |
| +KC Sangakkara | c Martyn b McGrath | 13 | 15 | 15 | 2 | - | 86.67 |
| JH Kallis | c Hussey b Lee | 2 | 10 | 12 | - | - | 20.00 |
| BC Lara | c Gilchrist b Lee | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| A Flintoff | b Watson | 21 | 25 | 34 | 4 | - | 84.00 |
| RS Dravid | c Martyn b Lee | 16 | 38 | 50 | 1 | - | 42.11 |
| *SM Pollock | c White b Watson | 8 | 27 | 44 | 1 | - | 29.63 |
| DL Vettori | c Clarke b Watson | 0 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Shahid Afridi | c McGrath b Watson | 16 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 200.00 |
| M Ntini | not out | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (6 lb, 4 nb, 14 w) | 24 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 137 minutes, 27.5 overs) | 137 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Gayle, 0.2 ov), 2-20 (Sangakkara, 3.4 ov), 3-27 (Kallis, 6.3 ov), 4-27 (Lara, 6.4 ov), 5-87 (Flintoff, 13.5 ov), 6-99 (Sehwag, 17.5 ov), 7-119 (Dravid, 24.3 ov), 8-120 (Vettori, 25.3 ov), 9-137 (Pollock, 27.3 ov), 10-137 (Shahid Afridi, 27.5 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Lee | 9 | 2 | 30 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13.50 | 3.33 |
| McGrath | 6 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 4.33 |
| Bracken | 5 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 7.20 |
| Watson | 7.5 | 0 | 39 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11.75 | 4.98 |