Melbourne: Ten match facts for Sunday’s ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 final between Australiaand New Zealand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (14:30 local/03:30GMT):
– New Zealand have reached their first World Cup final –- they are the seventh different team to make a final appearance. Australia and New Zealand land in Melbourne for Trans-Tasman mega clash
– Australia are four-time champions winning the World Cup in 1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007.
– Australia have lost the toss in six of their last seven completed ODIs against New Zealand on home soil, but have won five of these seven meetings.
– The Black Caps are attempting to record their 300th ODI victory. They have lost 339 and tied six. Tim Southee confident of NZ beating AUS in ICC World Cup 2015 final at Melbourne
– Shane Watson has scored 86 runs off the 85 balls Tim Southee has bowled to him in ODIs, without being dismissed.
– Brendon McCullum has scored 308 of his 329 tournament runs in the mandatory power play, hitting 59 boundaries in the 150 balls he has faced.
– Ross Taylor has been dismissed three times by off-spinners in the tournament, more than any other player. He has also fallen once to leg-spin.
– 15 of Trent Boult’s 21 wickets in the tournament have been batsmen batting at numbers 1–4; this percentage of 71.4% is the highest of anyone taking at least 10 wickets. Trent Boult, Mitchell Starc in race to become highest wicket-taker at ICC Cricket World Cup 2015
– Michael Clarke (62.6) and Martin Guptill (61.1) have the respective third and sixth highest all-time World Cup averages, minimum 10 dismissals.
– Steve Smith’s last 12 ODI innings in Australia have produced 812 runs at an average of 81.2 and a strike rate of 96.4. Read: Michael Clarke: No praise is enough for Steven Smith
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 final, Australia vs New Zealand: Match facts
