2007 Cricket World Cup: Ireland vs Australia

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.

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)

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

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)