| 2004–05 VB Series | |||||||||||||||||
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| Part of the Pakistani cricket team in Australia | |||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | |||||||||||||||||
| Australia | Pakistan | West Indies | |||||||||||||||
| Captains | |||||||||||||||||
| Ricky Ponting | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Brian Lara | |||||||||||||||
| Most runs | |||||||||||||||||
| Clarke (411) Martyn (240) Ponting (184) |
Inzamam (364) Youhana (318) Afridi (231) |
Chanderpaul (314) Lara (307) Sarwan (235) |
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| Most wickets | |||||||||||||||||
| Lee (16) McGrath (15) Hogg (10) |
Naved (14) Razzaq (13) Afridi (10) |
Bradshaw (9) Collins (8) Bravo (5) |
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The 2004-05 edition of the VB Series (so-called because of sponsor Victoria Bitter) was a three-team One Day International men's cricket tournament held in Australia in January and February 2005, between the hosting nation's team, Pakistan and West Indies. The teams played each other three times [1], with five points awarded for a win and a possible bonus point awarded either to the winners or losers depending on run rate. The top two teams on points went through to the best-of-three finals series. Five of the nine preliminary games were day-night matches, and both finals played were night matches.
| VB Series after 9 matches | ||||||||
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | NR/T | L | BP | Pts | NRR |
| 1 | Australia | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 27 | +1.082 |
| 2 | Pakistan | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 17 | -0.295 |
| 3 | West Indies | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | –0.718 |
| No. | Date | Team 1 | Team 2 | Venue |
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| Group Stage Schedule[1] | ||||
| 1 | 14 January 2005 | AUS | WI | Melbourne Cricket Ground |
| 2 | 16 January 2005 | AUS | PAK | Bellerive Oval |
| 3 | 19 January 2005 | WI | PAK | Brisbane Cricket Ground |
| 4 | 21 January 2005 | AUS | WI | Brisbane Cricket Ground |
| 5 | 23 January 2005 | AUS | PAK | Sydney Cricket Ground |
| 6 | 26 January 2005 | AUS | WI | Adelaide Oval |
| 7 | 28 January 2005 | PAK | WI | Adelaide Oval |
| 8 | 30 January 2005 | AUS | PAK | WACA Ground |
| 9 | 1 February 2005 | PAK | WI | WACA Ground |
| Finals Schedule | ||||
| Final 1 | 4 February 2005 | AUS | PAK | Melbourne Cricket Ground |
| Final 2 | 6 February 2005 | AUS | PAK | Sydney Cricket Ground |