2004–05 VB Series

2004–05 VB Series
Part of the Pakistani cricket team in Australia
Ricky Ponting (Aus) • Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak) • Brian Lara (WI)
Date 14 January 2005 – 6 February 2005 Location  Australia Result Australian victory[1][2] Player of the series Brett Lee[1][2]
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)
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.^[3][4] The teams played each other three times ,^[5] 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.

Squads

Squads
Australia[6]	Pakistan[7]	West Indies[8]
Ricky Ponting (c)	Inzamam-ul-Haq (c)	Brian Lara (c)
Adam Gilchrist (wk)	Kamran Akmal (wk)	Courtney Browne (wk)
Michael Clarke	Yousuf Youhana	Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Jason Gillespie	Salman Butt	Chris Gayle
Matthew Hayden	Taufeeq Umar	Wavell Hinds
Brad Hogg	Yasir Hameed	Ramnaresh Sarwan
Michael Kasprowicz	Mohammad Hafeez	Marlon Samuels
Brett Lee	Younis Khan	Dwayne Bravo
Simon Katich	Shoaib Malik	Ryan Hinds[note 1]
Darren Lehmann	Shahid Afridi	Ian Bradshaw
Damien Martyn	Abdul Razzaq	Pedro Collins
Glenn McGrath	Azhar Mahmood	Mervyn Dillon
Andrew Symonds	Shoaib Akhtar	Reon King
Shane Watson	Rana Naved-ul-Hasan	Xavier Marshall
Brad Haddin (wk)	Mohammad Khalil	Ricardo Powell[note 2]

Notes

Group Stage Table

VB Series after 9 matches[9]
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

Schedule

No.	Date	Team 1	Team 2	Venue
Group Stage Schedule[5]
1	14 January 2005	Australia	West Indies	Melbourne Cricket Ground
2	16 January 2005	Australia	Pakistan	Bellerive Oval
3	19 January 2005	West Indies	Pakistan	The Gabba, Brisbane
4	21 January 2005	Australia	West Indies	The Gabba, Brisbane
5	23 January 2005	Australia	Pakistan	Sydney Cricket Ground
6	26 January 2005	Australia	West Indies	Adelaide Oval
7	28 January 2005	Pakistan	West Indies	Adelaide Oval
8	30 January 2005	Australia	Pakistan	WACA Ground
9	1 February 2005	Pakistan	West Indies	WACA Ground
Finals Schedule
Final 1	4 February 2005	Australia	Pakistan	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Final 2	6 February 2005	Australia	Pakistan	Sydney Cricket Ground

Group stage matches

1st match: Australia v West Indies, 14 January

2nd match: Australia v Pakistan, 16 January

3rd match: Pakistan v West Indies, 19 January

4th match: Australia v West Indies, 21 January

5th match: Australia v Pakistan, 23 January

6th match: Australia v West Indies, 26 January

7th match: Pakistan v West Indies, 28 January

8th match: Australia v Pakistan, 30 January

9th match: Pakistan v West Indies, 1 February

Finals

1st final: Australia v Pakistan, 4 February

2nd final: Australia v Pakistan, 6 February

References

External links

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