Benson & Hedges World Series Cup - 4th final
Australia won by 6 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 114 | 1980/81 season
- Played at Sydney Cricket Ground
- 3 February 1981 - day/night (50-over match)
| New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JG Wright | c Border b TM Chappell | 57 | 93 | 88 | 2 | 0 | 64.77 | |
| BA Edgar | run out | 38 | 120 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| GP Howarth* | c Kent b Hogg | 46 | 72 | 55 | 3 | 0 | 83.63 | |
| MG Burgess | b GS Chappell | 20 | 49 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 58.82 | |
| RJ Hadlee | c Border b Lillee | 15 | 28 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| JM Parker | c †Marsh b Lillee | 12 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 92.30 | |
| PE McEwan | c Hogg b Lillee | 4 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| BL Cairns | b Pascoe | 7 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 63.63 | |
| IDS Smith† | not out | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 9, nb 5) | 14 | ||||||
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| Total | (8 wickets; 50 overs) | 215 | (4.30 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MC Snedden, EJ Chatfield |
| Fall of wickets1-90 (Wright), 2-119 (Edgar), 3-171 (Howarth), 4-177 (Burgess), 5-200 (Parker), 6-201 (Hadlee), 7-210 (Cairns), 8-215 (McEwan) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DK Lillee | 10 | 2 | 27 | 3 | 2.70 | |||
| RM Hogg | 10 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 4.60 | |||
| LS Pascoe | 10 | 0 | 51 | 1 | 5.10 | |||
| GS Chappell | 10 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 3.60 | |||
| TM Chappell | 10 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 4.10 |
| Australia innings (target: 216 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GM Wood | run out | 34 | 93 | 78 | 2 | 0 | 43.58 | |
| AR Border | b Snedden | 19 | 39 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 63.33 | |
| GS Chappell* | b Snedden | 87 | 138 | 102 | 5 | 0 | 85.29 | |
| KJ Hughes | b Snedden | 47 | 66 | 57 | 3 | 0 | 82.45 | |
| RW Marsh† | not out | 18 | 24 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 105.88 | |
| MF Kent | not out | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 133.33 | |
| Extras | (lb 8, w 1) | 9 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 47.4 overs) | 218 | (4.57 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat KD Walters, TM Chappell, DK Lillee, RM Hogg, LS Pascoe |
| Fall of wickets1-37 (Border), 2-89 (Wood), 3-188 (Hughes), 4-209 (GS Chappell) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| EJ Chatfield | 10 | 1 | 30 | 0 | 3.00 | |||
| RJ Hadlee | 8.4 | 1 | 43 | 0 | 4.96 | |||
| MC Snedden | 9 | 0 | 27 | 3 | 3.00 | |||
| PE McEwan | 10 | 1 | 58 | 0 | 5.80 | |||
| MG Burgess | 10 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 5.10 |
| Match details |
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Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat Series Australia won the best-of-5-finals 3-1 |
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Player of the match
GS Chappell (Australia) Player of the finals GS Chappell (Australia) |
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Umpires
RC Bailhache and AR Crafter |
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