Zimbabwean cricket team in Australia in 2003–04
| Zimbabwean cricket team in Australia in 2003-04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 28 September 2003 – 3 February 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Australia won the two-Test series 2-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Player of the series | Matthew Hayden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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 Zimbabwe
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| Captains | |||
| Steve Waugh | Heath Streak | ||
| Most runs | |||
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Matthew Hayden (501) Ricky Ponting (259) Steve Waugh (139) |
Mark Vermeulen (166) Stuart Carlisle (160) Heath Streak (119) |
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| Most wickets | |||
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Andy Bichel (10) Simon Katich (6) Jason Gillespie (5) |
Ray Price (6) Sean Ervine (4) Andy Blignaut (3) |
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The Zimbabwean cricket team toured Australia in the 2003-04 season. On the tour, the Zimbabweans played two unclassified matches, one First-class match, three List A matches and two Tests, as well as taking part in the 2003-04 VB Series with Australia and India - who were touring Australia for four Tests at the same time. The Zimbabweans lost all but one international match - both Tests and seven of the eight One Day Internationals - the exception being called off for rain.
The tour was notable for Matthew Hayden's score of 380 in the first Test, this being the highest individual score in Test cricket at the time, beating Brian Lara's 375.
Zimbabwe and Australia played in a tri-series tournament with India for the Australian Tri-Series, at the time sponsored by Victoria Bitter. Played in a round-robin format, all three teams played each other four times, meaning eight matches each, with the top two teams going through to a head-to-head final to decide the winner.
The deciding factors, in order, on table position were:
Adam Gilchrist was named Man of the Series for being leading run scorer, with 996 runs to his name.
Matthew Hayden recorded the highest score ever in Test cricket, at the time, with his 380 in the first innings, surpassing the 375 set by Brian Lara in Antigua a decade earlier. Lara went on to reclaim the record less than six months later, however, with his 400 not out against England.
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