Benson & Hedges World Series - 1st final
Australia won by 6 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)
| New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MD Crowe* | c ME Waugh b PL Taylor | 35 | 109 | 66 | 2 | 0 | 53.03 | |
| RB Reid | c MA Taylor b Alderman | 17 | 56 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 43.58 | |
| JG Wright | b O'Donnell | 10 | 24 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| AH Jones | c SR Waugh b ME Waugh | 43 | 66 | 72 | 5 | 0 | 59.72 | |
| KR Rutherford | c & b PL Taylor | 7 | 21 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 53.84 | |
| BA Young† | b ME Waugh | 19 | 42 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 63.33 | |
| RT Latham | not out | 26 | 58 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 54.16 | |
| GR Larsen | lbw b ME Waugh | 6 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 42.85 | |
| RG Petrie | not out | 11 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 91.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 10, w 11, nb 4) | 25 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets; 50 overs) | 199 | (3.98 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat C Pringle, DK Morrison |
| Fall of wickets1-55 (Reid), 2-69 (Wright), 3-101 (Crowe), 4-126 (Rutherford), 5-136 (Jones), 6-159 (Young), 7-170 (Larsen) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| TM Alderman | 8 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 2.87 | |||
| BA Reid | 9 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 4.88 | |||
| SP O'Donnell | 6 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 4.33 | |||
| SR Waugh | 7 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 4.57 | |||
| PL Taylor | 10 | 0 | 35 | 2 | 3.50 | |||
| ME Waugh | 10 | 2 | 29 | 3 | 2.90 |
| Australia innings (target: 200 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GR Marsh* | b Pringle | 70 | 161 | 126 | 5 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| MA Taylor | run out | 41 | 56 | 40 | 5 | 0 | 102.50 | |
| DM Jones | b Morrison | 49 | 97 | 72 | 2 | 0 | 68.05 | |
| DC Boon | not out | 14 | 45 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 42.42 | |
| ME Waugh | lbw b Morrison | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SR Waugh | not out | 16 | 34 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| Extras | (lb 5, w 2, nb 5) | 12 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 49.1 overs) | 202 | (4.10 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SP O'Donnell, IA Healy†, PL Taylor, TM Alderman, BA Reid |
| Fall of wickets1-70 (MA Taylor), 2-170 (Jones), 3-174 (Marsh), 4-176 (ME Waugh) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| C Pringle | 10 | 1 | 32 | 1 | 3.20 | |||
| RG Petrie | 10 | 1 | 41 | 0 | 4.10 | |||
| DK Morrison | 10 | 1 | 43 | 2 | 4.30 | |||
| GR Larsen | 8 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 4.50 | |||
| AH Jones | 7 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 3.85 | |||
| MD Crowe | 4.1 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 4.32 |
| Match details |
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Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat Series Australia led the best-of-3-finals 1-0 |
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Umpires
RJ Evans and LJ King |
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