Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket - 1st match, Group A
Australia won by 7 wickets (with 22 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 307 | 1984/85 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 17 February 1985 - day/night (50-over match)
| England innings (49 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| G Fowler | c & b McDermott | 26 | 69 | 48 | 2 | 0 | 54.16 | |
| PR Downton† | c McCurdy b McDermott | 27 | 81 | 64 | 2 | 0 | 42.18 | |
| DI Gower* | c Alderman b McCurdy | 6 | 23 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| AJ Lamb | c Kerr b Lawson | 53 | 77 | 53 | 3 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| MW Gatting | c Alderman b O'Donnell | 34 | 76 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 62.96 | |
| CS Cowdrey | lbw b McDermott | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| VJ Marks | b Lawson | 24 | 46 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 63.15 | |
| PH Edmonds | b Lawson | 20 | 29 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 90.90 | |
| RM Ellison | not out | 2 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| JP Agnew | not out | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| Extras | (b 3, lb 12, nb 5) | 20 | ||||||
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| Total | (8 wickets; 49 overs) | 214 | (4.36 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat NG Cowans |
| Fall of wickets1-61 (Fowler), 2-66 (Downton), 3-76 (Gower), 4-159 (Lamb), 5-159 (Gatting), 6-166 (Cowdrey), 7-200 (Edmonds), 8-211 (Marks) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GF Lawson | 10 | 3 | 31 | 3 | 3.10 | |||
| TM Alderman | 10 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 4.80 | |||
| CJ McDermott | 10 | 0 | 39 | 3 | 3.90 | |||
| RJ McCurdy | 10 | 1 | 42 | 1 | 4.20 | |||
| SP O'Donnell | 9 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 4.33 |
| Australia innings (target: 215 runs from 49 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| KC Wessels | c Gatting b Ellison | 39 | 56 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 78.00 | |
| RB Kerr | not out | 87 | 193 | 126 | 5 | 0 | 69.04 | |
| KJ Hughes | run out | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AR Border* | c Cowans b Marks | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| DM Jones | not out | 78 | 124 | 94 | 8 | 0 | 82.97 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 3, nb 6) | 10 | ||||||
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| Total | (3 wickets; 45.2 overs) | 215 | (4.74 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat WB Phillips†, SP O'Donnell, GF Lawson, CJ McDermott, RJ McCurdy, TM Alderman |
| Fall of wickets1-57 (Wessels), 2-57 (Hughes), 3-58 (Border) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| NG Cowans | 10 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 5.20 | |||
| RM Ellison | 10 | 4 | 34 | 1 | 3.40 | |||
| JP Agnew | 8 | 0 | 59 | 0 | 7.37 | |||
| VJ Marks | 7.2 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 4.50 | |||
| PH Edmonds | 10 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 3.30 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to bat Points Australia 2, England 0 |
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Player of the match
RB Kerr (Australia) |
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Umpires
AR Crafter and RC Isherwood |
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