| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AR Border | c Parker b Hadlee | 5 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 62.50 | |
| GM Wood | b McEwan | 72 | 137 | 114 | 4 | 0 | 63.15 | |
| GS Chappell* | c Edgar b Snedden | 90 | 161 | 122 | 7 | 0 | 73.77 | |
| MF Kent | c Edgar b Snedden | 33 | 47 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 86.84 | |
| RW Marsh† | not out | 18 | 23 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 138.46 | |
| KD Walters | not out | 6 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 120.00 | |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 3) | 11 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 50 overs) | 235 | (4.70 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat KJ Hughes, GR Beard, TM Chappell, DK Lillee, MHN Walker |
| Fall of wickets1-8 (Border), 2-153 (Wood), 3-199 (GS Chappell), 4-215 (Kent) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RJ Hadlee | 10 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 4.10 | |||
| MC Snedden | 10 | 0 | 52 | 2 | 5.20 | |||
| BL Cairns | 10 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 3.40 | |||
| BJ McKechnie | 10 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 5.40 | |||
| PE McEwan | 7 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 4.42 | |||
| GP Howarth | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4.00 |
| New Zealand innings (target: 236 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JG Wright | c Kent b GS Chappell | 42 | 90 | 81 | 4 | 0 | 51.85 | |
| BA Edgar | not out | 102 | 202 | 141 | 7 | 0 | 72.34 | |
| GP Howarth* | c †Marsh b GS Chappell | 18 | 24 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 90.00 | |
| BL Cairns | b Beard | 12 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 120.00 | |
| MG Burgess | c TM Chappell b GS Chappell | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| PE McEwan | c Wood b Beard | 11 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 61.11 | |
| JM Parker | c TM Chappell b Lillee | 24 | 30 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 126.31 | |
| RJ Hadlee | lbw b TM Chappell | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| IDS Smith† | b TM Chappell | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 133.33 | |
| BJ McKechnie | not out | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 10) | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets; 50 overs) | 229 | (4.58 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MC Snedden |
| Fall of wickets1-85 (Wright), 2-117 (Howarth), 3-136 (Cairns), 4-139 (Burgess), 5-172 (McEwan), 6-221 (Parker), 7-225 (Hadlee), 8-229 (Smith) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DK Lillee | 10 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 3.40 | |||
| MHN Walker | 10 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 3.50 | |||
| GR Beard | 10 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 5.00 | |||
| GS Chappell | 10 | 0 | 43 | 3 | 4.30 | |||
| TM Chappell | 10 | 0 | 57 | 2 | 5.70 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series Australia led the best-of-5-finals 2-1 |
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Umpires
PM Cronin and DG Weser |
| Match notes |
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Feb 1, 1981 The underarm incident: Trevor Chappell rolls one on the floor © Wisden Cricket Monthly |
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