By Roy Lie A Tjam.
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia. March 30 2015.The best team won the ICC World Cup. Once again, that team was Australia.
New Zealand 183 (45 overs): Elliott 83, Johnson 3-10, Faulkner 3-36
Australia 186-3 (33.1 overs): Clarke 74, Smith 56*
Australia win by seven wickets
Michael Clarke hit 74 in his last one- day international to lead Australia to their fifth Cricket World Cup title with a seven-wicket win over New Zealand. A crowd of over 93,000 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground saw Australia bowl out the Black Caps for 183 and then gallop to victory in the 34th over.
Michael Clarke hit 74 in his last one- day international to lead Australia to their fifth Cricket World Cup title with a seven-wicket win over New Zealand. A crowd of 93,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground saw Australia bowl out the Black Caps for 183 and then gallop to victory in the 34th over. Clarke, dedicated the win to his close friend and former teammate Phillip Hughes, who died last year after being hit on the head by a bouncer in a first-class match in Sydney. The ICC Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organized by the sport’s governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament held every four years.
The tournament is one of the world’s most viewed sporting events and is considered the “flagship event of the international cricket calendar” by the ICC