1987 Cricket World Cup Final

The final of the Reliance World Cup was played in Eden Gardens, Calcutta on Sunday 8 November 1987. The match was won by Australia who defeated England by 7 runs to lift their first ever World Cup trophy. This was the first Cricket World Cup final to be played outside England.

1987 ICC Cricket World Cup Final
Event1987 ICC Cricket World Cup
Australia England
253/5 246/8
50 overs 50 overs
Date8 November 1987
VenueEden Gardens, Calcutta, India
Player of the matchDavid Boon
UmpiresRam Gupta and Mahboob Shah
Attendance95,000
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Background

The match was the fourth World Cup final and was hosted at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. It was the first World Cup final held at a venue other than Lord's, which had hosted the previous three finals in 1975, 1979 and 1983.

Australia reached their second World Cup final after defeating Pakistan by 18 runs in the first semi-finals. Their previous final appearance, in 1975, ended in defeat to the West Indies.

England reached their second final after defeating India by 35 runs in the second semi-final. Their previous final appearance, in 1979, ended in defeat to the West Indies.

Details

Australia won the toss and chose to bat. David Boon (75 from 125 balls, 7 fours) top-scored for Australia, whose batsmen scored fluently. Australia posted 253 (5 wickets, 50 overs). Mike Veletta (45 from 31 balls, 6 fours) cut loose late in the innings, as Australia scored 65 runs from the last 6 overs of their innings.

In the English reply, opener Tim Robinson was out lbw first ball. Bill Athey (58 from 103 balls, 2 fours) top-scored, and England were almost on target, when captain Mike Gatting (41 from 45 balls, 3 fours, 1 six) handed back the initiative with the loss of his wicket to an attempted reverse sweep off the occasional off-spin bowling of Allan Border, which ended a growing partnership of 69 runs in 13 overs between him and Athey. Allan Lamb (45 from 55 balls, 4 fours) also posted a great innings, but it was in vain as the required run-rate for England began to rise. When England failed to score the last 17 runs from the final over, the cup went to Australia.

8 November 1987
Scorecard
Australia 
253/5 (50 overs)
v
 England
246/8 (50 overs)
David Boon 75 (125)
Eddie Hemmings 2/48 (10 overs)
Bill Athey 58 (103)
Steve Waugh 2/37 (9 overs)
Australia won by 7 runs
Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India
Attendance : 95,000
Umpires: Ram Gupta and Mahboob Shah
Player of the match: David Boon

Scorecard

Australia innings
R B M 4s 6s S/R
David Boon c Downton b Hemmings 75 125 159 7 0 60.00
Geoff Marsh b Foster 24 49 71 3 0 48.97
Dean Jones c Athey b Hemmings 33 57 75 1 1 57.89
Craig McDermott b Gooch 14 8 6 2 0 175.00
Allan Border run out (Robinson/Downton) 31 31 48 3 0 100.00
Mike Veletta not out 45 31 50 6 0 145.16
Steve Waugh not out 5 4 5 0 0 125.00
Extras (b 1, lb 13, nb 7, w 5) 26
TOTAL (50 overs) 253/5 (5.06 runs per over)

Fall of wickets:1-75(Geoff Marsh),2-151(Dean Jones),3-166(Craig McDermott),4-168(David Boon),5-241(Allan Border)

England Bowling
Bowling O M R W Economy
Phil DeFreitas 6 1 34 0 5.66
Gladstone Small 6 0 33 0 5.50
Neil Foster 10 0 38 1 3.80
Eddie Hemmings 10 1 48 2 4.80
John Emburey 10 0 44 0 4.40
Graham Gooch 8 1 42 1 5.25

England innings
Runs Balls Min. 4s 6s S/R
Graham Gooch lbw b O'Donnell 35 57 74 4 0 61.40
Tim Robinson lbw b C.McDermott 0 1 2 0 0 0
Bill Athey run out (Waugh/Reid) 58 108 126 2 0 56.31
Mike Gatting (c) c Dyer b Border 41 45 55 3 1 91.11
Allan Lamb b Waugh 45 55 56 4 0 81.81
Paul Downton (wk) c O'Donnell b Waugh 9 8 13 1 0 112.50
John Emburey run out (Boon/McDermott) 10 16 27 0 0 62.50
Phil DeFreitas c Reid b Waugh 17 10 10 2 1 170.00
Neil Foster not out 7 6 12 0 0 116.66
Gladstone Small not out 3 3 6 0 0 100
Extras (b 1, lb 14, nb 4, w 2) 21
Total (50 overs) 246/8 run rate 4.92

Fall of Wickets:1-1(Tim Robinson),2-66(Graham Gooch),3-135(Mike Gatting),4-170(Bill Athey),5-188(Paul Downton),6-218(John Emburey),7-220(Allan Lamb),8-235(Phil DeFreitas)

Australia innings
O M R W Economy
Craig McDermott 10 1 51 1 5.10
Bruce Reid 10 0 43 0 4.30
Steve Waugh 9 0 37 3 4.11
Simon O'Donnell 10 1 35 1 3.50
Tim May 4 0 37 0 6.75
Allan Border 7 0 38 1 5.42

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