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| Venue | Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound on 8th April 2007 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by 7 wickets |
| Points | Australia 2; England 0 |
| Umpires | BF Bowden (New Zealand), RE Koertzen (South Africa) |
| TV umpire | Asad Rauf (Pakistan) |
| Referee | MJ Procter (South Africa) |
| Reserve Umpire | NA Malcolm |
| Man of the Match | SW Tait |
| Articles | England team fined for slow over-rate |
| Ponting leaves England on brink of World Cup exit | |
| Pictures | Ricky Ponting hits a boundary |
| Ball-by-ball | Innings 1, Innings 2 |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| IR Bell | c Hussey b McGrath | 77 | 90 | 126 | 9 | - | 85.56 |
| *MP Vaughan | b Tait | 5 | 8 | 12 | 1 | - | 62.50 |
| AJ Strauss | b Tait | 7 | 10 | 11 | - | - | 70.00 |
| KP Pietersen | c Clarke b Bracken | 104 | 122 | 182 | 6 | 1 | 85.25 |
| PD Collingwood | c Gilchrist b Tait | 2 | 5 | 3 | - | - | 40.00 |
| A Flintoff | st Gilchrist b Hogg | 4 | 19 | 20 | - | - | 21.05 |
| RS Bopara | c Hussey b Bracken | 21 | 36 | 43 | 2 | - | 58.33 |
| +PA Nixon | c Hodge b McGrath | 8 | 6 | 14 | - | 1 | 133.33 |
| SI Mahmood | c Hodge b Bracken | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MS Panesar | not out | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 50.00 |
| JM Anderson | lbw b McGrath | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (4 b, 4 lb, 3 nb, 7 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.5 overs) | 247 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10 (Vaughan, 3.2 ov), 2-24 (Strauss, 5.6 ov), 3-164 (Bell, 29.3 ov), 4-167 (Collingwood, 30.3 ov), 5-179 (Flintoff, 35.3 ov), 6-230 (Bopara, 46.2 ov), 7-240 (Pietersen, 48.4 ov), 8-240 (Mahmood, 48.6 ov), 9-246 (Nixon, 49.2 ov), 10-247 (Anderson, 49.5 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Bracken | 10 | 1 | 33 | 3 | 1 | - | 20.00 | 3.30 |
| Tait | 10 | 0 | 41 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 20.00 | 4.10 |
| McGrath | 9.5 | 0 | 62 | 3 | 1 | - | 19.67 | 6.31 |
| Clarke | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.75 |
| Hogg | 10 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 3.60 |
| Symonds | 6 | 0 | 40 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.67 |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | c Collingwood b Flintoff | 27 | 37 | 51 | 5 | - | 72.97 |
| ML Hayden | b Collingwood | 41 | 50 | 91 | 6 | - | 82.00 |
| *RT Ponting | run out (Collingwood) | 86 | 106 | 133 | 11 | - | 81.13 |
| MJ Clarke | not out | 55 | 63 | 130 | 2 | - | 87.30 |
| A Symonds | not out | 28 | 28 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 100.00 |
| MEK Hussey | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ Hodge | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Hogg | did not bat | ||||||
| NW Bracken | did not bat | ||||||
| SW Tait | did not bat | ||||||
| GD McGrath | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 5 lb, 5 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 47.2 overs) | 248 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-57 (Gilchrist, 10.6 ov), 2-89 (Hayden, 19.1 ov), 3-201 (Ponting, 40.1 ov) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Anderson | 10 | 1 | 49 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 4.90 |
| Mahmood | 9.2 | 1 | 60 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.43 |
| Flintoff | 10 | 1 | 35 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.50 |
| Panesar | 9 | 0 | 48 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.33 |
| Collingwood | 9 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 1 | - | 54.00 | 5.56 |