| Australia v Sri Lanka |
| 1-Innings Match Played At Kensington Oval Barbados, 28-Apr-2007, ICC World Cup |
| Australia Win by 53 runs |
| Toss won by | Australia |
| Umpires | Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and SA Bucknor (West Indies) |
| Player / Match | AUS.:Gilchrist, Adam Craig |
| Comment | ICC World Cup - Final TV Umpire : RE Koertzen (South Africa) Match Referee : JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve Umpire : BF Bowden (New Zealand) Match reduced to 38 overs a side Sri Lanka target reduced to 269 in 36 overs |
| Australia 1st Innings 281/4 Closed (Overs 38) |
| Batsman | Fieldsman | Bowler | Runs | Min | Bls | 4s | 6s |
| AC Gilchrist+ | c LPC Silva | b CRD Fernando | 149 | 129 | 104 | 13 | 8 |
| ML Hayden | c DPMD Jayawardene | b SL Malinga | 38 | 100 | 55 | 3 | 1 |
| RT Ponting* | run out DPMD Jayawardene | 37 | 53 | 42 | 1 | 1 | |
| A Symonds | not out | 23 | 39 | 21 | 2 | 0 | |
| SR Watson | b SL Malinga | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| MJ Clarke | not out | 8 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
| MEK Hussey | dnb | - | |||||
| GB Hogg | dnb | - | |||||
| NW Bracken | dnb | - | |||||
| SW Tait | dnb | - | |||||
| GD McGrath | dnb | - | |||||
| extras | (b0 lb4 w16 nb3) | 23 | |||||
| TOTAL | 4 wickets for | 281 |
| FOW |
| 1-172(ML Hayden) 2-224(AC Gilchrist) 3-261(RT Ponting) 4-266(SR Watson) |
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | wd | nb |
| WPUJC Vaas | 8 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| SL Malinga | 8 | 1 | 49 | 2 | - | - |
| CRD Fernando | 8 | 0 | 74 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| M Muralitharan | 7 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 2 | - |
| TM Dilshan | 2 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | - |
| ST Jayasuriya | 5 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - |
| Sri Lanka 1st Innings 215/8 Closed (Overs 36) |
| Batsman | Fieldsman | Bowler | Runs | Min | Bls | 4s | 6s |
| WU Tharanga | c AC Gilchrist | b NW Bracken | 6 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| ST Jayasuriya | b MJ Clarke | 63 | 108 | 67 | 9 | 0 | |
| KC Sangakkara+ | c RT Ponting | b GB Hogg | 54 | 82 | 52 | 6 | 1 |
| DPMD Jayawardene* | lbw | b SR Watson | 19 | 32 | 19 | 1 | 0 |
| LPC Silva | b MJ Clarke | 21 | 42 | 22 | 1 | 1 | |
| TM Dilshan | run out MJ Clarke/GD McG. | 14 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 0 | |
| RP Arnold | c AC Gilchrist | b GD McGrath | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 11 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | |
| SL Malinga | st AC Gilchrist | b A Symonds | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| CRD Fernando | not out | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| MF Maharoof | dnb | - | |||||
| extras | (b0 lb1 w14 nb0) | 15 | |||||
| TOTAL | 8 wickets for | 215 |
| FOW |
| 1-7(WU Tharanga) 2-123(KC Sangakkara) 3-145(ST Jayasuriya) 4-156(DPMD Jayawardene) |
| 5-188(TM Dilshan) 6-190(LPC Silva) 7-194(RP Arnold) 8-211(SL Malinga) |
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | wd | nb |
| NW Bracken | 6 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 1 | - |
| SW Tait | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 2 | - |
| GD McGrath | 7 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 1 | - |
| SR Watson | 7 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 3 | - |
| GB Hogg | 3 | 0 | 19 | 1 | - | - |
| MJ Clarke | 5 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 2 | - |
| A Symonds | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | - | - |