Benson & Hedges World Series Cup - 2nd final
Australia won by 7 wickets (with 63 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 112 | 1980/81 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 31 January 1981 (50-over match)
| New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JG Wright | c †Marsh b Lillee | 11 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 68.75 | |
| BA Edgar | c Border b TM Chappell | 28 | 99 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| GP Howarth* | b Walker | 7 | 12 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| JV Coney | lbw b Lillee | 4 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| MG Burgess | run out | 13 | 40 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 29.54 | |
| PE McEwan | run out | 12 | 47 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| BJ McKechnie | lbw b TM Chappell | 0 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| IDS Smith† | b GS Chappell | 13 | 17 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 48.14 | |
| RJ Hadlee | c GS Chappell b Beard | 16 | 46 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 37.20 | |
| BL Cairns | c TM Chappell b Beard | 14 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| EJ Chatfield | not out | 2 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 18.18 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 1, nb 1) | 6 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 46.4 overs) | 126 | (2.70 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-14 (Wright), 2-21 (Howarth), 3-30 (Coney), 4-62 (Burgess), 5-70 (Edgar), 6-71 (McKechnie), 7-92 (McEwan), 8-95 (Smith), 9-113 (Cairns), 10-126 (Hadlee) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DK Lillee | 8 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 3.12 | |||
| MHN Walker | 10 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 2.50 | |||
| GR Beard | 8.4 | 3 | 20 | 2 | 2.30 | |||
| GS Chappell | 10 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 2.20 | |||
| TM Chappell | 10 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 2.80 |
| Australia innings (target: 127 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GM Wood | c †Smith b Chatfield | 32 | 90 | 87 | 4 | 0 | 36.78 | |
| AR Border | c Burgess b Howarth | 19 | 33 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 70.37 | |
| GS Chappell* | not out | 58 | 99 | 87 | 4 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| KJ Hughes | st †Smith b Cairns | 12 | 29 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| KD Walters | not out | 4 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 2, w 1) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (3 wickets; 39.3 overs) | 130 | (3.29 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat GR Beard, TM Chappell, RW Marsh†, DK Lillee, MHN Walker, LS Pascoe |
| Fall of wickets1-30 (Border), 2-85 (Wood), 3-118 (Hughes) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RJ Hadlee | 10 | 2 | 29 | 0 | 2.90 | |||
| EJ Chatfield | 6 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 3.50 | |||
| PE McEwan | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 4.50 | |||
| GP Howarth | 4 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3.25 | |||
| BL Cairns | 10 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 2.30 | |||
| BJ McKechnie | 5.3 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 3.81 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to field Series Best-of-5-finals level 1-1 |
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ODI debut
GR Beard
(Australia) |
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Umpires
RA French and DG Weser |
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