Wills World Cup - 4th quarter final
Australia won by 6 wickets (with 13 balls remaining)
| New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| CM Spearman | c †Healy b Reiffel | 12 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| NJ Astle | c †Healy b Fleming | 1 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| LK Germon*† | c Fleming b McGrath | 89 | 149 | 96 | 9 | 1 | 92.70 | |
| SP Fleming | c SR Waugh b McGrath | 8 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| CZ Harris | c Reiffel b Warne | 130 | 162 | 124 | 13 | 4 | 104.83 | |
| RG Twose | b Bevan | 4 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| CL Cairns | c Reiffel b ME Waugh | 4 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| AC Parore | lbw b Warne | 11 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 84.61 | |
| SA Thomson | run out | 11 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 110.00 | |
| DN Patel | not out | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 3, nb 4) | 13 | ||||||
| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs) | 286 | (5.72 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat DJ Nash |
| Fall of wickets1-15 (Astle), 2-16 (Spearman), 3-44 (Fleming), 4-212 (Germon), 5-227 (Twose), 6-240 (Cairns), 7-259 (Parore), 8-282 (Harris), 9-286 (Thomson) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| PR Reiffel | 4 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 9.50 | (3nb, 1w) | ||
| DW Fleming | 5 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 4.00 | |||
| GD McGrath | 9 | 2 | 50 | 2 | 5.55 | (1nb) | ||
| ME Waugh | 8 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 5.37 | |||
| SK Warne | 10 | 0 | 52 | 2 | 5.20 | (1w) | ||
| MG Bevan | 10 | 0 | 52 | 1 | 5.20 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| SR Waugh | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 6.25 |
| Australia innings (target: 287 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Taylor* | c †Germon b Patel | 10 | 23 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 41.66 | |
| ME Waugh | c Parore b Nash | 110 | 156 | 112 | 6 | 2 | 98.21 | |
| RT Ponting | c sub (RJ Kennedy) b Thomson | 31 | 32 | 43 | 4 | 0 | 72.09 | |
| SK Warne | lbw b Astle | 24 | 40 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 171.42 | |
| SR Waugh | not out | 59 | 99 | 68 | 5 | 0 | 86.76 | |
| SG Law | not out | 42 | 47 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 140.00 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 6, w 3, nb 3) | 13 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 47.5 overs) | 289 | (6.04 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MG Bevan, IA Healy†, PR Reiffel, DW Fleming, GD McGrath |
| Fall of wickets1-19 (Taylor), 2-84 (Ponting), 3-127 (Warne), 4-213 (ME Waugh) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DJ Nash | 9 | 1 | 44 | 1 | 4.88 | (1w) | ||
| DN Patel | 8 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 5.62 | |||
| CL Cairns | 6.5 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 7.46 | (1nb) | ||
| CZ Harris | 10 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 4.10 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| SA Thomson | 8 | 0 | 57 | 1 | 7.12 | (1w) | ||
| NJ Astle | 3 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 7.00 | |||
| RG Twose | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 7.66 |
| Match details |
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Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat Series Australia advanced |
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Player of the match
ME Waugh (Australia) |
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Umpires
CJ Mitchley (South Africa) and S Venkataraghavan TV umpire Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) Match referee MAK Pataudi |
| Match notes |
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Mar 1996 Chris Harris sweeps on the way to his highest ODI score © Getty Images |
Mar 1996 Mark Waugh scored a matchwinning century in the quarter-final © Getty Images |
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