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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 4th February 2007 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by 5 wickets |
| Points | Australia 4; New Zealand 0 |
| Umpires | Asad Rauf, SJ Davis |
| TV umpire | RL Parry |
| Referee | MJ Procter |
| Scorers | JW Hamilton, JKE Higgs |
| Reserve Umpire | PR Reiffel |
| Player of the Match | RT Ponting |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| L Vincent | b Tait | 90 | 113 | 160 | 6 | 1 | 79.65 |
| *SP Fleming | c Hussey b Lee | 9 | 11 | 14 | 1 | - | 81.82 |
| PG Fulton | lbw b Clarke | 60 | 81 | 120 | 4 | - | 74.07 |
| LRPL Taylor | b Clarke | 21 | 31 | 47 | 1 | - | 67.74 |
| SB Styris | c Hussey b Clark | 34 | 36 | 53 | 3 | - | 94.44 |
| JDP Oram | c Hodge b Lee | 15 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 166.67 |
| +BB McCullum | b Clark | 19 | 14 | 22 | 1 | - | 135.71 |
| DL Vettori | not out | 3 | 4 | 11 | - | - | 75.00 |
| JEC Franklin | not out | 13 | 5 | 5 | - | 1 | 260.00 |
| MR Gillespie | did not bat | ||||||
| SE Bond | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 11 lb, 4 nb, 9 w) | 26 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 226 minutes, 50 overs) | 290 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (Fleming, 2.5 ov), 2-163 (Fulton, 31.3 ov), 3-188 (Vincent, 36.5 ov), 4-212 (Taylor, 41.3 ov), 5-233 (Oram, 44.3 ov), 6-269 (Styris, 47.6 ov), 7-275 (McCullum, 49.1 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Lee | 10 | 0 | 71 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 30.00 | 7.10 |
| Tait | 10 | 1 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 2.60 |
| Clark | 10 | 1 | 61 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 30.00 | 6.10 |
| Johnson | 7 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.86 |
| Clarke | 9 | 0 | 45 | 2 | 2 | - | 27.00 | 5.00 |
| White | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.50 |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | b Franklin | 29 | 28 | 45 | 4 | - | 103.57 |
| ML Hayden | c Taylor b Franklin | 28 | 44 | 54 | 2 | - | 63.64 |
| *RT Ponting | c Vincent b Gillespie | 104 | 113 | 151 | 6 | 1 | 92.04 |
| MJ Clarke | c McCullum b Vettori | 9 | 20 | 45 | - | - | 45.00 |
| BJ Hodge | not out | 99 | 86 | 113 | 7 | 1 | 115.12 |
| MEK Hussey | run out (Vincent->Oram) | 8 | 5 | 9 | 1 | - | 160.00 |
| CL White | not out | 1 | 1 | 6 | - | - | 100.00 |
| SW Tait | did not bat | ||||||
| SR Clark | did not bat | ||||||
| B Lee | did not bat | ||||||
| MG Johnson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 9 nb, 3 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 214 minutes, 48.2 overs) | 291 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-56 (Gilchrist, 10.6 ov), 2-65 (Hayden, 12.6 ov), 3-112 (Clarke, 22.4 ov), 4-266 (Ponting, 46.1 ov), 5-279 (Hussey, 47.4 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Franklin | 10 | 0 | 56 | 2 | - | 2 | 30.00 | 5.60 |
| Bond | 9 | 0 | 64 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 7.11 |
| Gillespie | 8.2 | 0 | 45 | 1 | - | 1 | 50.00 | 5.40 |
| Oram | 5 | 0 | 44 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 8.80 |
| Vettori | 10 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 60.00 | 5.50 |
| Styris | 6 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.33 |