2015 Cricket World Cup Final
Australia celebrating their World Cup win
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| Event | 2015 Cricket World Cup | ||||||||
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| Date | 29 March 2015 | ||||||||
| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne | ||||||||
| Player of the Match | James Faulkner (Aus) | ||||||||
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Richard Kettleborough (On-field) Kumar Dharmasena (On-field) Marais Erasmus (TV umpire) Ian Gould (Reserve umpire) |
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| Attendance | 93,013 | ||||||||
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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 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.
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. The final was played on 29 March and was a day-nighter contested between New Zealand and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
It was New Zealand's first World Cup Final. They had previously lost the semi-final on six occasions between 1975 and 2011. Australia played in their record seventh final, having won four (1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007) and lost two (1975, 1996).
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.
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