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Match Date : October 27, 1987
Venue : Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh
Toss : Australia won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : Khizer Hayat and David Shepherd
Match Result : Australia won by 17 runs
Man of the Match : Geoff Marsh
Australia (50 Overs Maximum)
Geoff Marsh not out 126 (149) 12 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
David Boon run out 14 (28) 1 ‘4s’
Dean Jones c Smith b Watson 56 (80) 1 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Allan Border (C) b Snedden 1 (4)
Mike Veletta run out 0 (1)
Steve Waugh b Watson 1 (7)
Greg Dyer (WK) b Chatfield 8 (10)
Craig McDermott lbw b Chatfield 5 (7)
Tim May run out 15 (10) 1 ‘4s’
Andrew Zesers not out 8 (3) 1 ‘4s’
Bruce Reid
Extras : 17 (Wides: 7 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 10)
Total : 251/8 (Overs: 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-25 (Boon), 2-151 (Jones), 3-158 (Border), 4-158 (Veletta), 5-175 (Waugh), 6-193 (Dyer), 7-201 (McDermott), 8-228 (May)
New Zealand Bowling
Snedden 10-0-48-1
Chatfield 10-2-52-2
Boock 10-1-45-0
Bracewell 4-0-24-0
Patel 8-0-26-0
Watson 8-0-46-2
New Zealand (Target: 252 from 50 Overs)
Martin Snedden b Waugh 32 (56) 3 ‘4s’
John Wright c&b Zesers 61 (82) 4 ‘4s’
Martin Crowe run out 4 (5)
Ken Rutherford c Jones b McDermott 44 (57) 4 ‘4s’
Jeff Crowe (C) c&b Border 27 (28) 3 ‘4s’
Dipak Patel st Dyer b Border 3 (10)
John Bracewell run out 12 (20)
Ian Smith (WK) c Boon b Waugh 12 (15)
Stephen Boock run out 12 (8) 1 ‘4s’
Willie Watson run out 8 (8) 1 ‘6s’
Ewen Chatfield not out 5 (6)
Extras : 14 (Wides: 4 No Balls: 2 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 7)
Total : 234 all out (Overs: 48.4)
Fall of Wickets : 1-72 (Snedden), 2-82 (Martin Crowe), 3-127 (Wright), 4-173 (Jeff Crowe), 5-179 (Rutherford), 6-186 (Patel), 7-206 (Bracewell), 8-208 (Smith), 9-221 (Boock), 10-234 (Watson)
Australia Bowling
McDermott 10-1-43-1
Reid 6-0-30-0
Waugh 9.4-0-37-2
Zesers 6-0-37-1
May 10-0-52-0
Border 7-0-27-2