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| Venue | McLean Park, Napier on 5th March 2005 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Australia won by 122 runs |
| Umpires | AL Hill, DR Shepherd |
| TV umpire | DB Cowie |
| Referee | CH Lloyd |
| Reserve Umpire | RD Anderson |
| Player of the Match | RT Ponting |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | c Cumming b Canning | 91 | 61 | 82 | 9 | 4 | 149.18 |
| SM Katich | c McCullum b Hamilton | 5 | 15 | 25 | - | - | 33.33 |
| *RT Ponting | not out | 141 | 127 | 170 | 10 | 5 | 111.02 |
| DR Martyn | c Fleming b Mills | 40 | 46 | 46 | 3 | 1 | 86.96 |
| A Symonds | run out (Vettori->McMillan) | 17 | 16 | 23 | 2 | - | 106.25 |
| MJ Clarke | c Cumming b McMillan | 43 | 36 | 40 | 5 | - | 119.44 |
| MEK Hussey | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| B Lee | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Hogg | did not bat | ||||||
| MS Kasprowicz | did not bat | ||||||
| GD McGrath | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 196 minutes, 50 overs) | 347 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37 (Katich, 5.6 ov), 2-129 (Gilchrist, 18.4 ov), 3-204 (Martyn, 34.2 ov), 4-241 (Symonds, 39.2 ov), 5-335 (Clarke, 49.4 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Mills | 10 | 1 | 67 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 6.70 |
| Hamilton | 10 | 0 | 76 | 1 | - | 1 | 60.00 | 7.60 |
| Canning | 10 | 0 | 80 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 8.00 |
| Vettori | 10 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.70 |
| McMillan | 7 | 0 | 63 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 9.00 |
| Cumming | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.67 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CD Cumming | lbw b Lee | 13 | 24 | 38 | 1 | - | 54.17 |
| *SP Fleming | c Gilchrist b Kasprowicz | 35 | 46 | 60 | 4 | - | 76.09 |
| HJH Marshall | run out (Clarke) | 28 | 41 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 68.29 |
| JAH Marshall | b Kasprowicz | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| CD McMillan | c Hogg b Symonds | 63 | 69 | 73 | 7 | 1 | 91.30 |
| +BB McCullum | c McGrath b Symonds | 36 | 60 | 67 | 2 | 2 | 60.00 |
| TK Canning | b Kasprowicz | 16 | 27 | 31 | - | 1 | 59.26 |
| DL Vettori | not out | 16 | 19 | 26 | 1 | - | 84.21 |
| KD Mills | c Kasprowicz b McGrath | 10 | 13 | 18 | - | - | 76.92 |
| LJ Hamilton | not out | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 |
| CL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb, 2 nb, 3 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 192 minutes, 50 overs) | 225 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39 (Cumming, 8.5 ov), 2-60 (Fleming, 14.1 ov), 3-60 (JAH Marshall, 14.2 ov), 4-103 (HJH Marshall, 22.4 ov), 5-167 (McMillan, 35.4 ov), 6-196 (McCullum, 43.2 ov), 7-199 (Canning, 44.4 ov), 8-223 (Mills, 49.2 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Lee | 10 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 60.00 | 3.40 |
| McGrath | 10 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 4.50 |
| Kasprowicz | 10 | 2 | 36 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.60 |
| Hogg | 10 | 0 | 53 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.30 |
| Clarke | 5 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| Symonds | 5 | 0 | 25 | 2 | - | - | 15.00 | 5.00 |