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Match Date : October 13, 1987
Venue : MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Madras
Toss : Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field first
Umpires : Khizer Hayat and David Shepherd
Match Result : Australia won by 96 runs
Man of the Match : Steve Waugh
Australia (50 Overs Maximum)
Geoff Marsh c Curran b Omarshah 62 (101) 8 ‘4s’
David Boon c Houghton b Curran 2 (15)
Dean Jones run out 2 (12)
Allan Border (C) c Omarshah b Butchart 67 (88) 8 ‘4s’
Steve Waugh run out 45 (41) 3 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Simon O’Donnell run out 3 (11)
Greg Dyer (WK) c Paterson b Butchart 27 (20) 1 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Peter Taylor not out 17 (13) 1 ‘4s’
Craig McDermott c Brown b Curran 1 (3)
Tim May run out 1 (1)
Bruce Reid
Extras : 8 (Wides: 8 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 0)
Total : 235/9 (Overs: 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-10 (Boon), 2-20 (Jones), 3-133 (Border), 4-143 (Marsh), 5-155 (O’Donnell), 6-202 (Dyer), 7-228 (Waugh), 8-230 (McDermott), 9-235 (May)
Zimbabwe Bowling
Curran 8-0-29-2
Jarvis 10-0-40-0
Rawson 6-0-39-0
Butchart 10-1-59-2
Traicos 10-0-36-0
Omarshah 6-0-32-1
Zimbabwe (Target: 236 from 50 Overs)
Robin Brown b O’Donnell 3 (30)
Grant Paterson run out 16 (53) 1 ‘4s’
David Houghton (WK) c O’Donnell b May 11 (22) 1 ‘4s’
Andy Pycroft run out 9 (29) 1 ‘4s’
Kevin Curran b O’Donnell 30 (38) 1 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
Andy Waller c & b May 19 (22) 1 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Ali Shah b McDermott 2 (9)
Peter Rawson b Reid 15 (14) 2 ‘4s’
Iain Butchart c Jones b O’Donnell 18 (32) 2 ‘4s’
John Traicos (C) c & b O’Donnell 6 (5) 1 ‘4s’
Malcolm Jarvis not out 1 (1)
Extras : 9 (Wides: 3 No Balls: 1 Byes: 2 Leg Byes: 3)
Total : 139 all out (Overs: 42.4)
Fall of Wickets : 1-13 (Brown), 2-27 (Paterson), 3-41 (Pycroft), 4-44 (Houghton), 5-79 (Waller), 6-97 (Omarshah), 7-97 (Curran), 8-124 (Rawson), 9-137 (Traicos), 10-139 (Butchart)
Australia Bowling
McDermott 7-1-13-1
Reid 7-1-21-1
O’Donnell 9.4-1-39-4
Waugh 6-3-7-0
May 8-0-29-2
Taylor 5-0-25-0