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| Venue | Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound on 31st March 2007 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Australia won by 10 wickets |
| Points | Australia 2; Bangladesh 0 |
| Umpires | Aleem Dar (Pakistan), BF Bowden (New Zealand) |
| TV umpire | RE Koertzen (South Africa) |
| Referee | BC Broad (England) |
| Reserve Umpire | Asad Rauf (Pakistan) |
| Man of the Match | GD McGrath |
| Articles | McGrath breaks record as Australia thrash Bangladesh |
| Audio-Video | English Fourteenth Audio Summary |
| Hindi Sixteenth audio Summary | |
| English Thirteenth Audio Summary | |
| English Twelfth Audio Summary | |
| List of all audio-video clips | |
| Pictures | McGrath delivers a ball as he breaks Wasim Akram's World Cup record of 55 wickets |
| Ball-by-ball | Innings 1, Innings 2 |
| Bangladesh innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| Tamim Iqbal | c Hogg b Bracken | 3 | 14 | 11 | - | - | 21.43 |
| Shahriar Nafees | b McGrath | 1 | 4 | 15 | - | - | 25.00 |
| Aftab Ahmed | c Bracken b McGrath | 11 | 7 | 14 | 1 | - | 157.14 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | c Gilchrist b Tait | 25 | 36 | 50 | - | 1 | 69.44 |
| Mohammad Ashraful | c Ponting b McGrath | 6 | 8 | 11 | 1 | - | 75.00 |
| *Habibul Bashar | c Ponting b Bracken | 24 | 43 | 48 | - | - | 55.81 |
| Mashrafe Mortaza | not out | 25 | 17 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 147.06 |
| +Mushfiqur Rahim | not out | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 66.67 |
| Mohammad Rafique | did not bat | ||||||
| Abdur Razzak | did not bat | ||||||
| Tapash Baisya | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 22 overs) | 104 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Tamim Iqbal, 2.4 ov), 2-8 (Shahriar Nafees, 3.3 ov), 3-25 (Aftab Ahmed, 5.3 ov), 4-37 (Mohammad Ashraful, 7.5 ov), 5-65 (Shakib Al Hasan, 16.2 ov), 6-97 (Habibul Bashar, 21.1 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Bracken | 4 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 1 | - | 12.00 | 5.00 |
| McGrath | 5 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 1 | - | 10.00 | 3.20 |
| Tait | 4 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 4 | - | 24.00 | 7.00 |
| Watson | 1.4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.40 |
| Hogg | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Symonds | 2.2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.86 |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | not out | 59 | 44 | 56 | 8 | 1 | 134.09 |
| ML Hayden | not out | 47 | 39 | 56 | 3 | 3 | 120.51 |
| *RT Ponting | did not bat | ||||||
| MJ Clarke | did not bat | ||||||
| A Symonds | did not bat | ||||||
| MEK Hussey | did not bat | ||||||
| SR Watson | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Hogg | did not bat | ||||||
| NW Bracken | did not bat | ||||||
| SW Tait | did not bat | ||||||
| GD McGrath | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (no wicket, 56 minutes, 13.5 overs) | 106 | |||||
| Bangladesh bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Mashrafe Mortaza | 4 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |
| Tapash Baisya | 2.5 | 0 | 35 | 0 | - | - | - | 12.35 |
| Aftab Ahmed | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| Abdur Razzak | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |
| Mohammad Rafique | 3 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | 0.5 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | - | 16.80 |