Australia v Zimbabwe- the holders on the World cup for the last 3 times opened there account with a victory against Zimbabwe. The Australia's won the toss and elected to bat with Watson leading the way for Australia with 79. the Zimbabwean's did restrict the top order from hitting 4s during the power plays with good bowling. But the Australians did break the shackles and got got to a good score of 262-6. Clarke hitting 58 in t he end as he steered the side to that biggish total.
The Australian bowlers looking dangerous as ever as they blew the Zimbabwean's apart. The star of the show was Johnson getting 4 wickets for 19 runs off 9.2 overs. He got good support from Tait getting 2 wickets off 9 overs and Krejza getting another 2 for 28 runs off 8. A wicket a piece for Lee and Hussey as Zimbabwe were bowled out for 171 runs. The number 9 batsman top scored with (Cremer) 37 runs and Williams 28 runs. But they never looked like they were going to get close to that target and won impressively by 91 runs in the end.
Australia move on to play there rivals New Zealand at Nagpur as Zimbabwe also move to Nagpur as they play Canada there.
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