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{{Infobox limited overs final
| title = 1997 Women's Cricket<br />World Cup Final
| image =
| caption =
| event = {{nobr|[[1997 Women's Cricket World Cup]]}}
| team1 = [[New Zealand women's national cricket team|New Zealand]]
| team1flag = {{flagicon|New Zealand|size=30px}}
| team1score = 164
| team1overs = 49.3 overs
| team2 = [[Australia women's national cricket team|Australia]]
| team2flag = {{flagicon|Australia|size=30px}}
| team2score = 165/5
| team2overs = 47.4 overs
| details = Australia won by 5 wickets
| date = 29 December 1997
| stadium = [[Eden Gardens]]
| city = Calcutta, India
| man_of_the_match = [[Debbie Hockley]] (NZ)
| umpires = [[Aloke Bhattacharjee]] (Ind) and [[S. Choudhary]] (Ind)
| previous = [[1993 Women's Cricket World Cup Final|1993]]
| next = [[2000 Women's Cricket World Cup Final|2000]]
}}
The '''1997 Women's Cricket World Cup Final''' was a [[one-day cricket]] match between [[Australia women's national cricket team|Australia]] and [[New Zealand women's national cricket team|New Zealand]] played on 29 December 1997 at [[Eden Gardens]] in Calcutta, India. It marked the culmination of the [[1997 Women's Cricket World Cup]], the sixth edition of [[Women's Cricket World Cup|the tournament]]. Australia won the final by five [[wicket]]s, clinching their fourth World Cup title. It was Australia's third appearance in a World Cup final, while New Zealand were making their second successive appearance.

Both teams finished top of their respective groups in the first stage of the competition, and won their quarter-finals by a wide margin. In the semi-finals, Australia beat the hosts, [[India women's national cricket team|India]] by 19 runs in a rain-reduced match, while New Zealand defeated, the reigning champions [[England women's cricket team|England]] by 20 runs. The New Zealand captain, [[Maia Lewis]] won the [[Toss (cricket)|toss]] and opted to [[Batting (cricket)|bat]] first. Her side were bowled out for 164 runs. Only three New Zealand players reached double figures, including [[Debbie Hockley]], whose score of 79 earned her the [[Player of the Match awards (cricket)|player of the match]] accolade. In their response, Australia started well, and a second-wicket [[Partnership (cricket)|partnership]] of 71 runs between [[Belinda Clark]] and [[Michelle Goszko]] meant that despite some late pressure from the New Zealand bowlers, Australia reached the winning total with 14 [[Delivery (cricket)|deliveries]] remaining.

==Background==
The [[1997 Women's Cricket World Cup]] was the sixth [[Women's Cricket World Cup]]. The first had been [[1973 Women's Cricket World Cup|held in 1973]], pre-dating the first [[Cricket World Cup|men's Cricket World Cup]] by two years. The 1997 tournament featured eleven teams, the most in the tournament's history;<ref name="icc-hist">{{cite web |url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/womens-world-cup/history |title=ICC Women's World Cup History |publisher=[[International Cricket Council]] |access-date=18 June 2020}}</ref> [[Australia women's national cricket team|Australia]], [[Denmark women's national cricket team|Denmark]], [[England women's cricket team|England]], [[India women's national cricket team|India]], [[Ireland women's cricket team|Ireland]], [[Netherlands women's national cricket team|Netherlands]], [[New Zealand women's national cricket team|New Zealand]], [[Pakistan women's national cricket team|Pakistan]], [[South Africa women's national cricket team|South Africa]], [[Sri Lanka women's national cricket team|Sri Lanka]] and the [[West Indies women's cricket team|West Indies]].<ref name="ci-table">{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/table/series/8584/season/1997/hero-honda-women%27s-world-cup |title=Hero Honda Women's World Cup 1997: Table |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=18 June 2020}}</ref> The tournament had originally been scheduled to feature twelve teams: [[Japan women's national cricket team|Japan]] and [[Canada women's national cricket team|Canada]] were also invited but were unable to take part, and a late attempt to involve [[Bangladesh women's national cricket team|Bangladesh]] also failed.<ref name="nzcm">{{cite web |url=http://nzcricketmuseum.co.nz/1997-womens-cricket-world-cup/ |title=The 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup |last=Bell |first=Jamie |publisher=New Zealand Cricket Museum |date=11 June 2017 |access-date=18 June 2020 |archive-date=27 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327021916/https://www.icc-cricket.com/womens-world-cup/history |url-status=dead }}</ref> The tournament took place from 9 to 29 December 1997, featuring 33 matches over 21 days.<ref name="ci-results">{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/scores/series/8584/season/1997/hero-honda-women%27s-world-cup?view=results |title=Hero Honda Women's World Cup 1997: Results |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=18 June 2020}}</ref> Australia and England had won all of the previous tournaments; Australia had three titles, and England, the reigning champions, had two.<ref name="icc-hist"/>

==Route to the final==
{{main|1997 Women's Cricket World Cup}}

===Australia===
Australia competed in Group A of the competition, along with Denmark, England, Ireland, Pakistan and South Africa. Their first match, against Ireland, was abandoned due to rain which washed out three of the first five contests, meaning that Australia and Ireland shared the points. Facing South Africa two days later, Australia restricted their opponents to 163 runs, and then chased down the total without loss; their [[Batting order (cricket)#Opening batsmen|openers]], [[Belinda Clark]] and [[Joanne Broadbent]] scored 93 and 61 respectively. In their third match, Australia faced Pakistan,<ref name="wisden-report"/> who had only formed their team the previous year.<ref>{{cite book |title=Skirting the Boundary: A History of Women's Cricket |last=Duncan |first=Isabelle |year=2013 |publisher=[[The Robson Press]] |location=London |isbn=978-1-84954-546-4 |pages=70–71}}</ref> Australia bowled Pakistan out for 27, the fifth lowest total in [[Women's One Day International]]s,{{efn|As of 2020: at the time, the total was the second-lowest in Women's One Day Internationals, only Pakistan's own total of 23, also against Australia, from February 1997 was lower.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283170.html |title=Records / Women's One-Day Internationals / Team records / Lowest innings totals |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=18 June 2020}}</ref>}} and won the match by nine [[wicket]]s. Against Denmark in their next match, Clark scored 229 [[not out]], the first double century scored in women's or men's One Day International cricket.<ref name="wisden-report"/> Australia finished on 412 for three,{{efn|"412 for three" is cricket notation which could also be written 412/3, and signifies that the batting team has scored {{nobr|412 runs}}, and has lost three of its ten wickets. See [[Scoring (cricket)]] for more information.}} which is the highest total in a Women's World Cup match,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/team/highest_innings_totals.html?id=68;type=trophy |title=Records / Women's World Cup / Team records / Highest totals |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=18 June 2020}}</ref> and after bowling Denmark out for 49 runs, they also secured the largest margin of victory in Women's World Cup history, winning by 363 runs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/team/largest_margins.html?id=68;type=trophy |title=Records / Women's World Cup / Team records / Largest victories |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=18 June 2020}}</ref> In their final group stage match, Australia bowled England out for 95, and completed an eight-wicket win with more than 23 overs remaining. They finished top of Group A with 27 points, and qualified for the quarter-finals.<ref name="wisden-report"/>

Australia faced the Netherlands in the quarter-finals. After winning the [[Toss (cricket)|toss]], Australia chose to bat first, and scored 223 for four; [[Bronwyn Calver]] scored 74, and [[Mel Jones]] 43. In response, the Netherlands were restricted to 108 for six, meaning that Australia progressed to the semi-finals after securing a 115-run victory. In the semi-finals, Australia met India, who had finished second in Group B. The hosts won the toss and invited Australia to bat first in a match which was reduced to 32 overs per side due to rain. Australia scored 123 for seven led by scores of 33 and 31 from Broadbent and Clark. Due to a slow [[over rate]], India were penalised two overs, and so only had 30 overs in which to bat. They closed their innings on 104 for nine; [[Cathryn Fitzpatrick]] took three wickets for Australia as they won by 19 runs.<ref name="wisden-report"/>

===New Zealand===
New Zealand were placed in Group B, which due to the uneven number of teams, only featured four other sides; India, Netherlands, Sri Lanka and the West Indies.<ref name="wisden-report"/> When the New Zealand team had left home, they were expecting to play Bangladesh in the opening round of matches,<ref name="nzcm"/> but in their absence, New Zealand did not begin their campaign until the third day of the tournament. In a rain-reduced match of 20 overs per side, the Netherlands scored 48 for eight, which New Zealand chased down in 8.1 overs to win by eight wickets. They enjoyed similarly facile victories in each of their next two matches. Against Sri Lanka, [[Not out|unbeaten]] scores of 100 and 57 for [[Debbie Hockley]] and [[Katrina Keenan|Katrina Withers]] helped New Zealand score 236 for three. They then bowled Sri Lanka out for 71 runs, and won by 165 runs. Two days later against the West Indies, they won by an even larger margin; another century from Hockley helped to set up a 198-run victory. New Zealand faced India in their final group match, and scored 176 for nine after batting first. In their chase, India began well, and looked likely to win the match, but collapsed from 150 for four, and the teams [[Tie (cricket)|tied]] the match. New Zealand finished as group winners, three points ahead of India.<ref name="wisden-report"/>

Drawn against Ireland in the quarter-finals, New Zealand chose to bat first, and scored 244 for three; Hockley and [[Emily Drumm]] each made half-centuries. They then restricted Ireland to 105 for nine during their chase, to secure a 139-run victory. In the semi-finals, they faced England, who had finished as runners-up in Group A. The four semi-finalists were the same teams which had finished as the top four teams at the [[1993 Women's Cricket World Cup]]. New Zealand once again batted first after winning the toss, and scored 175 for six; Hockley and Withers were their top-scorers with 43 and 35 respectively. As in the other semi-final, the second innings was shortened, as England were penalised one over for a slow over-rate, though the England team protested that the [[Umpire (cricket)|umpires]] had not allowed extra time for a number of stoppages during the New Zealand innings. As it was, England were bowled out for 155; New Zealand won by 20 overs and secured their second successive final.<ref name="wisden-report"/>

==Match==
===Summary===
[[File:Eden Gardens.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|The [[Eden Gardens]] hosted the final. (Pictured prior to a match in 2007.)|alt=The Eden Gardens cricket ground, empty.]]
The final was held at the [[Eden Gardens]], in Calcutta, India, on 29 December 1997. The crowd was reported to be in excess of 50,000, partly due to the local government providing transportation for local women to attend the match,<ref name="wisden-report">{{cite book |editor-first=Matthew |editor-last=Engel |editor-link=Matthew Engel |title=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1999]] |edition=136 |year=1999 |publisher=John Wisden & Co. Ltd |location=Guildford, Surrey |isbn=0-947-76650-2 |chapter=Hero Honda World Cup, 1997 |last=Salmon |first=Carol |pages=1270–1274}}</ref> though estimates varied. A state government official suggested the crowd to be around 80,000,<ref name="age-report">{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50647420/ |title=Massive crowd watches Australia win cup |work=[[The Age]] |page=16 |date=30 December 1997 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> while the Australian team manager [[Christina Matthews|Chris Matthews]] provided a more modest estimate of "more than 25,000".<ref name="smh-report">{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50647842/the-sydney-morning-herald/ |title=Australian women cruise to World Cup |last=Curtin |first=Jennie |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=30 December 1997 |page=39 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> In 2017, reflecting on the match, Clark said: "To this day, I don't know how many people were there at Eden Gardens that day. I've heard different variations. One thing I can tell you, though, is my eardrums were buzzing; I hadn't played in front of such a crowd ever before."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/19852190/lisa-sthalekar-debbie-hockley-belinda-clark-mithali-raj-others-reflect-women-world-cup |title=Clark's lap of honour, Hockley's finest hour |last=Kishore |first=Shashank |work=ESPNcricinfo |date=6 July 2017 |access-date=17 June 2020}}</ref> The attendance was unusually high for a women's cricket match; Melinda Farrell, an Australian cricket journalist, described it as "an outlier in women's cricket for 23 years".<ref name="cricbuzz">{{cite news |url=https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/112637/when-eden-backed-the-women-cricbuzzcom |title=When Eden backed the women |last=Farrell |first=Melinda |work=[[CricBuzz]] |date=7 March 2020 |access-date=14 August 2020}}</ref> Some of the players found the atmosphere distracting, as it was something they were unused to; Hockley said that it was difficult to hear the others players, and "until you're there you don't realise that's actually what happens. It probably happens at men's games all the time."<ref name="cricbuzz"/>

[[Aloke Bhattacharjee]] and [[S. Choudhary]] were appointed as the umpires for the match. Clark described the pitch as atypical for an Indian ground, as it had a lot of grass left on the wicket.<ref name="age-report"/> The New Zealand captain, Lewis, won the toss and chose to bat first.<ref name="smh-report"/> Writing in ''[[The Times]]'', Thrasy Petropoulos suggested that much of New Zealand's hopes of winning rested on their opening batters, Hockley and Drumm, and how they would cope with Australia's fast bowler, Fitzpatrick.<ref name="times-report">{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0502246856/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=TTDA&xid=fd7b75a3 |title=Australia confirm their superiority |last=Petropoulos |first=Thrasy |work=[[The Times]] |date=30 December 1997 |page=34 |issue=66085 |via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale Primary Sources]]}}</ref> Instead, it was the medium-pace of Calver who took the first two wickets,<ref name="times-report"/> [[Bowled|bowling]] Drumm for six runs, and having [[Shelley Fruin]] caught by Clark for eight runs.<ref name="ciscore"/> Katrina Withers, New Zealand's next batter, was dismissed by what Petropoulos described as "the ball of the day", when she [[Glossary of cricket terms#edge|edged]] an [[Outswinger|outswinging]] delivery from [[Charmaine Mason]] to the wicket-keeper, [[Julia Price]].<ref name="times-report"/> Withers had scored five, and New Zealand were 49 for three.<ref name="ciscore"/> Lewis was trapped [[leg before wicket]] (lbw) by the right-arm [[leg spin]] of [[Olivia Magno]] for 10 runs,<ref name="smh-report"/> and shortly after [[Kathryn Ramel]] was the first of two New Zealand batters to be [[run out]], having only scored one run.<ref name="ciscore"/> Despite the regular loss of wickets, New Zealand maintained a steady [[run rate]],<ref name="smh-report"/> and Hockley anchored their innings.<ref name="times-report"/> [[Karen Rolton]], who finished with Australia's best [[bowling analysis]], took the next two wickets; she had [[Clare Nicholson]] adjudged lbw for two runs, and then [[Sarah McLauchlan]] was [[stumped]] for eight, moving New Zealand onto 125 for seven.<ref name="ciscore"/> The New Zealand wicket-keeper, [[Rebecca Rolls]], was one of few batters to provide support for Hockley,<ref name="smh-report"/> scoring 18 runs out of a [[Partnership (cricket)|partnership]] of 30 with the opener.<ref name="ciscore"/> Hockley was dismissed in the 47th over, bowled by Fitzpatrick for 79 runs,<ref name="guard-report">{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50647901/ |title=On top of the world |last=Harris |first=Cath |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=30 December 1997 |page=20 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> including 7 [[Four (cricket)|fours]] and 1 [[Six (cricket)|six]].<ref name="times-report"/> Rolls was dismissed soon after, caught by Calver off the bowling of Mason. New Zealand's final two batters, [[Catherine Campbell]] and [[Kelly Brown (cricketer)|Kelly Brown]] added seven more runs before Brown was run out, ending their team's innings on 164 [[Glossary of cricket terms#all out|all out]].<ref name="ciscore"/>

Australia opened the batting in their chase with Broadbent and Clark; the pair put on 36 runs together before Broadbent was caught by Lewis off the bowling of Ramel for 15 runs.<ref name="ciscore"/> [[Michelle Goszko]] joined Clark, and the two [[New South Wales Breakers|New South Wales]] teammates pushed Australia ahead of the required rate of 3.3 runs per over.<ref name="age-report"/><ref name="smh-report"/> Goszko was bowled by Withers for 37 runs, and had shared a partnership of 71 runs with Clark, taking Australia to 107 for two. Clark said that the partnership "got enough runs for the rest of the team to build on".<ref name="age-report"/> Clark was the next batter to be dismissed, when she was caught and bowled by Campbell shortly after reaching her half-century. Australia were 135 for three, and needed 30 runs from the final 12 overs to win. Although Clark felt that Australia were in control of the match, [[Economy rate (cricket)|economical]] bowling from New Zealand put pressure on the Australian batters.<ref name="age-report"/><ref name="smh-report"/> Rolton and Jones added another 36 runs before Jones was bowled by Keenan for 17; Rolton was dismissed soon after, caught by Brown off the bowling of Ramel for 24. Calver scored the winning runs for Australia with 14 deliveries remaining.<ref name="ciscore"/>

===Scorecard===
* '''Toss''': New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first
* '''Result''': Australia won by five wickets<ref name="ciscore">{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8584/scorecard/66905/australia-women-vs-new-zealand-women-final-hero-honda-womens-world-cup-1997-98 |title=Final, Hero Honda Women's World Cup at Kolkata, Dec 29 1997 |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=8 May 2020}}</ref>
{| cellpadding="1" style="border:gray solid 1px; text-align:center; width:60%;" class="wikitable"
|+ New Zealand batting innings
|-
! scope="col" | [[Batsman]]
! scope="col" | [[Dismissal (cricket)|Method of dismissal]]
! scope="col" | [[Run (cricket)|Runs]]
! scope="col" | [[Delivery (cricket)|Balls]]
! scope="col" | {{abbr|SR|Strike rate}}
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Debbie Hockley]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | b [[Cathryn Fitzpatrick]] || 79 || 121 || 65.28
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Emily Drumm]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | b [[Bronwyn Calver]] || 6 || 17 || 35.29
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Shelley Fruin]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Belinda Clark]] b [[Bronwyn Calver]] || 8 || 30 || 26.66
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Katrina Keenan|Katrina Withers]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Julia Price]] {{dagger}} b [[Charmaine Mason]] || 5 || 10 || 50.00
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Maia Lewis]] {{asterisk}}
| style=" text-align: left;" | lbw b [[Olivia Magno]] || 10 || 33 || 30.30
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Kathryn Ramel]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[run out]] || 1 || 9 || 11.11
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Clare Nicholson]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | lbw b [[Karen Rolton]] || 2 || 16 || 12.50
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Sarah McLauchlan]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | st [[Julia Price]] {{dagger}} b [[Karen Rolton]] || 8 || 21 || 38.09
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Rebecca Rolls]] {{dagger}}
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Bronwyn Calver]] b [[Charmaine Mason]] || 18 || 24 || 75.00
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Catherine Campbell]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[not out]] || 3 || 12 || 25.00
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Kelly Brown (cricketer)|Kelly Brown]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[run out]] || 1 || 4 || 25.00
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | Extras
| style=" text-align: left;" | (10 [[leg bye]]s, 13 wides) || 23
| colspan="2" |
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | '''Totals'''
| style=" text-align: left;" | (49.3 overs) || '''164'''
| colspan="2" | 3.31 runs per over
|}
{| cellpadding="1" style="border:gray solid 1px; text-align:center; width:60%;" class="wikitable"
|+ Australia bowling
|-
! scope="col" style="width:25%;"| [[Bowler (cricket)|Bowler]]
! scope="col" | [[Over (cricket)|Overs]]
! scope="col" | [[Over (cricket)|Maidens]]
! scope="col" | [[Run (cricket)|Runs]]
! scope="col" | [[Wicket]]s
! scope="col" | [[Economy rate (cricket)|Economy]]
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Cathryn Fitzpatrick]]
| 10 || 2 || 22 || 1 || 2.20
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Bronwyn Calver]]
| 10 || 1 || 29 || 2 || 2.90
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Charmaine Mason]]
| 9.3 || 1 || 32 || 2 || 3.36
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Olivia Magno]]
| 6 || 1 || 28 || 1 || 4.66
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Karen Rolton]]
| 6 || 1 || 25 || 2 || 4.16
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Avril Fahey]]
| 8 || 1 || 18 || 0 || 2.25
|}

{| cellpadding="1" style="border:gray solid 1px; text-align:center; width:60%;" class="wikitable"
|+ Australia batting innings
|-
! scope="col" | [[Batsman]]
! scope="col" | [[Dismissal (cricket)|Method of dismissal]]
! scope="col" | [[Run (cricket)|Runs]]
! scope="col" | [[Delivery (cricket)|Balls]]
! scope="col" | {{abbr|SR|Strike rate}}
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Belinda Clark]] {{asterisk}}
| style=" text-align: left;" | c & b [[Catherine Campbell]] || 52 || 81 || 64.19
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Joanne Broadbent]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Maia Lewis]] b [[Kathryn Ramel]] || 15 || 50 || 30.00
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Michelle Goszko]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | b [[Katrina Keenan|Katrina Withers]] || 37 || 54 || 68.51
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Karen Rolton]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Kelly Brown (cricketer)|Kelly Brown]] b [[Kathryn Ramel]] || 24 || 51 || 47.05
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Mel Jones]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | b [[Katrina Keenan|Katrina Withers]] || 17 || 37 || 45.94
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Bronwyn Calver]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[not out]] || 7 || 14 || 50.00
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Olivia Magno]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[not out]] || 0 || 0 || –
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | Extras
| style=" text-align: left;" | (5 byes, 4 [[leg bye]]s, 1 no ball, 5 wides) || 13
| colspan="2" |
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | '''Totals'''
| style=" text-align: left;" | (47.4 overs) || '''165/5'''
| colspan="2" | 3.46 runs per over
|- style="text-align:left;"
| colspan="5" | ''Did not bat'': [[Julia Price]] {{dagger}}, [[Charmaine Mason]], [[Cathryn Fitzpatrick]], [[Avril Fahey]]
|}
{| cellpadding="1" style="border:gray solid 1px; text-align:center; width:60%;" class="wikitable"
|+ New Zealand bowling
|-
! scope="col" style="width:25%;"| [[Bowler (cricket)|Bowler]]
! scope="col" | [[Over (cricket)|Overs]]
! scope="col" | [[Over (cricket)|Maidens]]
! scope="col" | [[Run (cricket)|Runs]]
! scope="col" | [[Wicket]]s
! scope="col" | [[Economy rate (cricket)|Economy]]
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Katrina Keenan|Katrina Withers]]
| 10 || 2 || 23 || 2 || 2.30
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Clare Nicholson]]
| 10 || 3 || 26 || 0 || 2.60
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Kelly Brown (cricketer)|Kelly Brown]]
| 1 || 0 || 10 || 0 || 10.00
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Kathryn Ramel]]
| 4.4 || 0 || 23 || 2 || 4.92
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Catherine Campbell]]
| 10 || 1 || 36 || 1 || 3.60
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Sarah McLauchlan]]
| 9 || 0 || 26 || 0 || 2.88
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Debbie Hockley]]
| 3 || 0 || 12 || 0 || 4.00
|}

'''Umpires''':
* [[Aloke Bhattacharjee]] and [[S. Choudhary]]

'''Key'''
* {{asterisk}} – [[Captain (cricket)|Captain]]
* {{dagger}} – [[Wicket-keeper]]
* c ''Fielder'' – Indicates that the batter was dismissed by a catch by the named [[Fielding (cricket)|fielder]]
* b ''Bowler'' – Indicates which [[Bowling (cricket)|bowler]] gains credit for the dismissal
* c & b ''Bowler'' – Indicates that the batter was dismissed by a catch by the bowler
* lbw – Indicates the batter was dismissed [[leg before wicket]]
* st – Indicates the batter was [[stumped]]

==Aftermath==
Hockley was named as [[Player of the Match awards (cricket)|player of the match]], which was titled "Eve of the Match".<ref name="nzcm"/> She later said that she only won because "in India they tended to just give it to the batsman who score the most runs. It just wouldn't happen now because you're more likely to give it to someone on the winning team".<ref name="cricbuzz"/> Hockley also finished as the tournament's leading run-scorer, with 456 runs, while Withers took the most wickets, 13.<ref name="icc-hist"/> Clark was named as the player of the tournament.<ref name="wisden-report"/> Australia and New Zealand met again in the [[2000 Women's Cricket World Cup Final]], which New Zealand won by four runs.<ref name="icc-hist"/>

==Notes==
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==References==
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