Benson & Hedges World Series - 2nd final
Australia won by 7 wickets (with 27 balls remaining)
| New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MD Crowe* | b Reid | 6 | 23 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| RB Reid | c Jones b PL Taylor | 64 | 127 | 94 | 5 | 0 | 68.08 | |
| JG Wright | c PL Taylor b O'Donnell | 8 | 47 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 23.52 | |
| AH Jones | lbw b Reid | 51 | 106 | 89 | 1 | 0 | 57.30 | |
| KR Rutherford | c PL Taylor b O'Donnell | 37 | 55 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 86.04 | |
| RT Latham | not out | 20 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 142.85 | |
| BA Young† | c Jones b O'Donnell | 11 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 183.33 | |
| C Pringle | not out | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 8, w 1, nb 1) | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs) | 208 | (4.16 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat GR Larsen, RG Petrie, DK Morrison |
| Fall of wickets1-14 (Crowe), 2-51 (Wright), 3-102 (Reid), 4-171 (Jones), 5-177 (Rutherford), 6-194 (Young) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| TM Alderman | 7 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 3.00 | |||
| BA Reid | 10 | 3 | 35 | 2 | 3.50 | |||
| SP O'Donnell | 9 | 0 | 43 | 3 | 4.77 | |||
| SR Waugh | 9 | 1 | 37 | 0 | 4.11 | |||
| PL Taylor | 9 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 4.44 | |||
| ME Waugh | 6 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 4.00 |
| Australia innings (target: 209 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Taylor | c Rutherford b Jones | 71 | 115 | 93 | 8 | 0 | 76.34 | |
| GR Marsh* | c †Young b Petrie | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DM Jones | b Pringle | 76 | 164 | 105 | 6 | 1 | 72.38 | |
| DC Boon | not out | 40 | 74 | 64 | 3 | 0 | 62.50 | |
| ME Waugh | not out | 3 | 20 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 21.42 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 12, w 2, nb 4) | 19 | ||||||
| Total | (3 wickets; 45.3 overs) | 209 | (4.59 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SR Waugh, SP O'Donnell, IA Healy†, PL Taylor, TM Alderman, BA Reid |
| Fall of wickets1-2 (Marsh), 2-120 (MA Taylor), 3-199 (Jones) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| C Pringle | 9.3 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 3.15 | |||
| RG Petrie | 9 | 0 | 51 | 1 | 5.66 | |||
| DK Morrison | 9 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 4.44 | |||
| GR Larsen | 10 | 2 | 32 | 0 | 3.20 | |||
| MD Crowe | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 7.50 | |||
| AH Jones | 6 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 4.66 |
| Match details |
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Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat Series Australia won the best-of-3-finals 2-0 |
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Player of the preliminary series
ME Waugh (Australia) Player of the finals MA Taylor (Australia) |
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Umpires
AR Crafter and PJ McConnell |
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