2015 Cricket World Cup final
Event | 2015 Cricket World Cup | ||||||||
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Date | 29 March 2015 | ||||||||
Venue | 2019 → |
The final of the 2015 Cricket World Cup took place on 29 March 2015 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia. It was played between the tournament's two co-hosts, New Zealand and Australia. Australia went into the game as favourites[2][3] and won by 7 wickets for a fifth World Cup triumph. The match was played in front of 93,013 spectators, a record crowd for a day of cricket in Australia.
Background
The 2015 Cricket World Cup started on 14 February and was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia across 14 venues. Fourteen teams were divided into two pools of seven, with the top four from each pool progressing to the quarter-finals.[4] The final was played on 29 March and was a day-night match contested between New Zealand and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.[5]
It was New Zealand's first World Cup Final.
It was the second consecutive time that two co-hosts contested the final: in 2011, India defeated Sri Lanka in the final while a third co-host Bangladesh exited in the pool stages. It was also the first time since 1987 that there was no Asian team in the final.[7]
The match was also the last One Day International (ODI) for Australian captain Michael Clarke (who announced that he would retire before the match),[8] Brad Haddin,[9] and New Zealand's Daniel Vettori,[10] the latter two announcing their retirements after the match.
Road to the final
New Zealand
New Zealand finished top of
Australia
Australia finished second in Pool A, losing against New Zealand, having a game cancelled due to rain against Bangladesh
Buildup
Australia entered the final as strong favourites to win.[17] Australia had a strong record at home, winning 24 of their last 26 games and former Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden suggested New Zealand would struggle with the larger field size at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), especially after playing all their tournament games on the smaller New Zealand grounds. Additionally, Australia had a much stronger record at the World Cup, having already won it four times. At the MCG Australia had won their last six matches, although they did lose the last time they played New Zealand there in 2009.[18] Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting stated that Australia were overwhelming favourites and one could not find a weakness in the Australian team.[19]
New Zealand's captain, Brendon McCullum, maintained an aggressive approach throughout the tournament,[20] and said the final match would be no different.[21] Australia's captain Michael Clarke said the loss against New Zealand during the group stages gave his side the "kick up the backside" they needed.[22]
Match
Match officials
The match was umpired by Sri Lanka's Kumar Dharmasena and England's Richard Kettleborough, both of whom were on the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires.[23] Kettleborough was named the ICC umpire of the year in 2013 and 2014[24] with Dharmasena winning the award in 2012.[25] Dharmasena was part of the Sri Lanka team which won the 1996 final against Australia, and became the first person to feature in the final as a player and as an umpire.[23] Sri Lankan Ranjan Madugalle was the match referee, South Africa's Marais Erasmus was the TV umpire and former England ODI international cricketer Ian Gould was the fourth umpire.[23]
Details
New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
Australia's start was equally ignominious with Aaron Finch being caught and bowled by Trent Boult in the second over for a duck. By the end of the 10th over, Australia were 56 for 1, with David Warner on 39 and Steve Smith on 13.[28] Warner was dismissed in the 13th over for 45, being caught by Elliott off the bowling of Henry but Australia remained resolute to end the 20th over on 98 for 2, Clarke on 21 and the steady Smith on 25. By the end of the 30th over, Clarke, who received the majority of deliveries, was on 57 while Smith had 47. Clarke was dismissed in the 32nd, bowled by Henry for 74, but by now Australia required just nine runs from 113 deliveries.[29] Shane Watson came in to support Smith as he struck the winning shot, a four off Henry from the first ball of the 34th over, to win the match by seven wickets.[27]
Australian captain Clarke dedicated the victory to Phillip Hughes who had died after being struck on the neck by a bouncer the previous November.[30]
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- New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
- Australia won the Cricket World Cup for the fifth time.[31][32]
- This was the last ODI played by Mitchell Johnson (Aus).[33]
- The crowd of 93,013 was the largest in the history of cricket in Australia, beating the previous record of 91,112 for a Test match on 26 December 2013. The country's previous ODI record crowd was 87,182 for the 1992 final.[34]
- 1st innings
New Zealand batting[35] | |||||||
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Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
Martin Guptill | b Maxwell | 15 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 44.11 | |
Brendon McCullum | b Starc | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Kane Williamson | c & b Johnson | 12 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 36.36 | |
Ross Taylor | c Haddin b Faulkner | 40 | 72 | 2 | 0 | 55.55 | |
Grant Elliott | c Haddin b Faulkner | 83 | 82 | 7 | 1 | 101.21 | |
Corey Anderson | b Faulkner | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Luke Ronchi | c Clarke b Starc | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Daniel Vettori | b Johnson | 9 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 42.85 | |
Tim Southee | run out (Maxwell) | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 | |
Matt Henry | c Starc b Johnson | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Trent Boult | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Extras | (lb 7, w 6) | 13 | |||||
Total | (all out; 45 overs) | 183 |
Fall of wickets: 1/1 (McCullum, 0.5 ov), 2/33 (Guptill, 11.2 ov), 3/39 (Williamson, 12.2 ov), 4/150 (Taylor, 35.1 ov), 5/150 (Anderson, 35.3 ov), 6/151 (Ronchi, 36.2 ov), 7/167 (Vettori, 40.6 ov), 8/171 (Elliott, 41.5 ov), 9/182 (Henry, 44.5 ov), 10/183 (Southee, 44.6 ov)
Australian bowling[35] | |||||||
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Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
Mitchell Starc | 8 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 2.50 | 1 | 0 |
Josh Hazlewood | 8 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 3.75 | 0 | 0 |
Mitchell Johnson
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9 | 0 | 30 | 3 | 3.33 | 2 | 0 |
Glenn Maxwell | 7 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 5.28 | 1 | 0 |
James Faulkner | 9 | 1 | 36 | 3 | 4.00 | 0 | 0 |
Shane Watson | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 5.75 | 2 | 0 |
- 2nd innings
Australian batting[35] | |||||||
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Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
David Warner | c Elliott b Henry | 45 | 46 | 7 | 0 | 97.82 | |
Aaron Finch | c & b Boult | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Steve Smith | not out | 56 | 71 | 3 | 0 | 78.87 | |
Michael Clarke | b Henry | 74 | 72 | 10 | 1 | 102.77 | |
Shane Watson | not out | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
Glenn Maxwell | |||||||
James Faulkner | |||||||
Brad Haddin | |||||||
Mitchell Johnson
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Mitchell Starc | |||||||
Josh Hazlewood | |||||||
Extras | (lb 3, w 6) | 9 | |||||
Total | (3 wickets; 33.1 overs) | 186 |
Fall of wickets: 1/2 (Finch, 1.4 ov), 2/63 (Warner, 12.2 ov), 3/175 (Clarke, 31.1 ov)
New Zealand bowling[35] | |||||||
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Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
Tim Southee | 8 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 8.12 | 3 | 0 |
Trent Boult | 10 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 4.00 | 0 | 0 |
Daniel Vettori | 5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 5.00 | 0 | 0 |
Matt Henry | 9.1 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 5.01 | 2 | 0 |
Corey Anderson | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 | 1 | 0 |
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External links
- Official 2015 World Cup site
- Cricket World Cup at icc-cricket.com