Australia beat Ireland by 9 wickets

Australia defeated Ireland by 9 wickets in a Super Eight match of the World Cup played at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown here Friday. Ireland were bundled out for a paltry 91 runs. Glenn McGrath and Shaun Tait claimed 3 wickets each for Australia. Australia reached the target in just 12.2 overs. Glenn McGrath was adjudged Man-of-the-match.

SCOREBOARD

Match No. 40th, Australia vs Ireland, Super Eight, Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados on April 13

Ireland:J Bray b McGrath 1W Porterfield lbw b Tait 1E Morgan c Hayden b McGrath 0 N O'Brien b Tait 0 K O'Brien c Hodge b Clark 16A White c Hogg b McGrath 6 D Johnston b Tait 17 W McCallan c Tait b Symonds 5 J Mooney run out (Tait) 23 D Langford-Smith c Ponting b Hogg 2 W Rankin not out 4Extras (w 15, nb 1) 16

Total (all out; 30 overs; 140 mins) 91

Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Bray, 0.6 overs), 2-2 (Porterfield, 3.1 overs), 3-2 (NJ O'Brien, 3.2 overs), 4-12 (Morgan, 4.3 overs), 5-32 (White, 10.3 overs), 6-42 (KJ O'Brien, 13.2 overs), 7-54 (Johnston, 16.3 overs), 8-72 (McCallan, 20.6 overs), 9-80 (Langford-Smith, 23.1 overs), 10-91 (Mooney, 29.6 overs)

Bowling:Glenn McGrath 7-1-17-3 Shaun Tait 6-1-39-3 (1nb, 9w) Stuart Clark 8-1-19-1 (1w) Brad Hogg 6-2-9-1 (2w) Andrew Symonds 3-1-7-1

Australia:A Gilchrist b Johnston 34M Hussey not out 30 A Symonds not out 15 Extras (lb 4, w 8, nb 1) 13

Total (1 wicket; 12.2 overs; 57 mins) 92

Fall of wickets:1-62 (Gilchrist, 8.5 overs)

Bowling:D Langford-Smith 3-0-27-0 (2w) Boyd Rankin 4.2-0-24-0 (4w) Trent Johnston 3-0-18-1 (1nb, 2w) JF Mooney 1-0-14-0 Kyle McCallan 1-0-5-0

Result: Australia won by 9 wicketsMan of the Match: Glenn McGrath (Australia)Umpires: BF Bowden (New Zealand) and RE Koertzen (South Africa)TV umpire: SA BucknorMatch referee RS Madugalle (Sri Lanka) (IANS)

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