A crowd of 13,600 was in­evitably be­hind the un­der­dogs and open­er Alex Oban­da, mak­ing his World Cup de­but, gave them some­thing to cheer with two huge six­es as Kenya's re­ply be­gan-the sec­ond hit­ting the roof of the sta­di­um from Tait's bowl­ing. A 25-run part­ner­ship be­tween the Obuya broth­ers came to an end in calami­tous fash­ion when Collins re­fused a quick sin­gle, leav­ing David com­plete­ly strand­ed, but at least the younger broth­er stuck around with the im­pres­sive Mishra, who fol­lowed his 51 last time out against Cana­da with an­oth­er flu­id half-cen­tu­ry against more test­ing op­po­si­tion.

The ex­pe­ri­enced Obuya, who had crept to 46 off 85 balls when Mishra de­part­ed, upped the pace and blud­geoned a six off Wat­son to com­plete his sec­ond World Cup half-cen­tu­ry, but he could on­ly man­age a sin­gle off the last ball and was left strand­ed on 98 as Aus­tralia com­plet­ed vic­to­ry. Aus­tralia now stays in Ban­ga­lore for its next game against Cana­da on Wednes­day, while Kenya will play its fi­nal game in Kolkata against Zim­bab­we in a week's time. (AP)

Score­board

Aus­tralia in­nings

B Haddin c Pa­tel b Ka­mande 65

S Wat­son c Ouma b Odhi­ambo 21

R Ponting lbw b C Obuya 36

M Clarke c Pa­tel b Odhi­ambo 93

C White b Ka­mande 2

M Hussey c D Obuya b Odhi­ambo 54

S Smith not out 17

M John­son not out 12

Ex­tras: (2b, 5lb, 16w, 1nb) 24

TO­TAL: (for six wick­ets) 324

Wk­ts at: 1-38, 2-127, 3-131, 4-143, 5-257, 6-304.

Bowl­ing: Thomas Odoyo 10-0-50-0 (1w), Eli­jah Otieno 8-0-75-0, Ne­hemi­ah Odhi­ambo 10-1-57-3 (2w), James Ngoche 8-0-56-0 (1w), Jim­my Ka­mande 10-0-46-2 (2w), Collins Obuya 4-0-33-1 (1nb, 1w).

Kenya In­nings

M Ouma c Haddin b Lee 4

A Oban­da b Tait 14

C Obuya not out 98

D Obuya run out 12

T Mishra run out 72

T Odoyo b Tait 35

R Pa­tel run out 6

J Ka­mande not out 0

Ex­tras: (2b, 6lb, 12w, 3nb) 23

TO­TAL: (for six wick­ets) 264

Wk­ts at: 1-12, 2-21, 3-46, 4-161

Bowl­ing: Brett Lee 8-1-26-1, Shaun Tait 8-0-49-2 (2nb, 5w), Mitchell John­son 8-1-40-0 (2w), Steve Smith 6-0-36-0, Ja­son Kre­jza 8-0-36-0, Michael Clarke 5-0-21-0, Shane Wat­son 7-0-48-0 (1w).

Toss: Aus­tralia.

Re­sult: Aus­tralia wins by 60 runs.

Um­pires: Asad Rauf, Pak­istan, and Richard Ket­tle­bor­ough, Eng­land.

TV um­pire: Bil­ly Bow­den, New Zealand.

Match ref­er­ee: Andy Py­croft, Zim­bab­we.