• This match was the 2091st Limited Overs International in cricket history.

• Blessing Mahwire was made his debut. He became the 77th player to represent Zimbabwe in the shorter version of the game.

• Tatenda Taibu played his 50th match. He became the 18th Zimbabwean and the 282nd player overall to do so.

• This match was the 63rd abandoned match in LOIs. Australia and Zimbabwe have now been involved in 14 and 8 abandoned matches respectively. Incidentally India hold the record of being involved in most such matches – 23. It was also the first abandoned match between Australia and Zimbabwe out of the 24 contested in between the two. The accompanying table gives country-wise break-up of abandoned matches:

Country	Total	Aus	Eng	NZ	Pak	WI	Ind	SL	Zim	SA	Ken	Ban
India	23	3	2	4	4	1	x	7	-	2	-	-
New Zealand	20	3	3	x	1	3	4	2	1	3	-	-
Sri Lanka	16	2	-	2	2	1	7	x	1	1	-	-
Australia	14	x	1	3	3	1	3	2	1	-	-	-
Pakistan	12	3	1	1	x	-	4	2	1	-	-	-
England	11	1	x	3	1	3	2	-	1	-	-	-
West Indies	11	1	3	3	-	x	1	1	-	-	-	2
Zimbabwe	8	1	1	1	1	-	-	1	x	1	2	-
South Africa	7	-	-	3	-	-	2	1	1	x	-	-
Kenya	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	x	-
Bangladesh	2	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	x
TOTAL	63	14	11	20	12	11	23	16	8	7	2	2

• Ricky Ponting (35 off 58 balls) completed his 2000 runs as Australia's captain. He became fourth Australian (after Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor) and 15th player in the world to do so. The following table lists the leading run-scoring captains in LOIs:

Captain	For	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	Hs	Ave	100	50	0
A Ranatunga	SL	193	183	34	5606	131*	37.62	4	37	14
M Azharuddin	Ind	174	162	29	5239	153*	39.39	4	37	6
AR Border	Aus	178	165	27	4439	127*	32.17	2	27	6
ST Jayasuriya	SL	118	118	5	4377	189	38.73	10	25	8
SC Ganguly	Ind	112	109	11	4194	144	42.80	11	24	6
SP Fleming	NZ	152	145	13	4154	134*	31.47	4	23	6
WJ Cronje	SA	138	128	20	4070	94	37.69	-	31	6
Imran Khan	Pak	139	122	29	3247	102*	34.91	1	18	2
IVA Richards	WI	106	92	11	3203	181	39.54	3	23	3
SR Waugh	Aus	106	89	15	2585	120*	34.93	2	16	8
SR Tendulkar	Ind	73	70	5	2454	186*	37.75	6	12	4
ADR Campbell	Zim	86	84	8	2207	102	29.04	2	14	4
MA Taylor	Aus	67	65	1	2098	105	32.78	1	15	2
RB Richardson	WI	87	83	13	2042	122	29.17	2	10	-
RT Ponting	Aus	61	57	10	2005	140*	42.66	7	7	2

• As many as seven batsmen crossed 20 during the Australian innings. This equals the existing LOI record of most individual scores of at least 20 in a team's innings. This record has now been made on 11 occasions with Australia doing so on five occasions.

• Brad Haddin (32 off 46 balls) posted his best LOI score surpassing the 14 also against Zimbabwe at Adelaide on 26-01-2004.