Final: Victoria v Western Australia at Melbourne, 23 Jan 1977

Gillette Cup (Australia), 1976/77, Final
Victoria v Western Australia
Melbourne Cricket Ground
23 January 1977 (40-over match)

Result: Western Australia won by 1 wicket
Series: Western Australia wins the 1976/77 Gillette Cup (Australia)

Toss: Western Australia
Umpires: KJ Carmody and WJ Copeland
Man of the Match: MF Malone

Balls per over: 8

Victoria innings (40 overs maximum)                             R   M   B  4 6
PA Hibbert            lbw                b Malone              38  69  60  6 0
JK Moss               c Marsh            b Lillee              26  90  61  2 0
DJ Broad              c Marsh            b Malone               0   1   1  0 0
GN Yallop             c Laird            b Brayshaw            16  56  33  0 0
DF Whatmore           run out (Charlesworth/Marsh)              2   6   6  0 0
*+RD Robinson         run out (Serjeant/Brayshaw)              32  58  47  4 0
TJ Laughlin                          c & b Yardley              0   2   3  0 0
RJ Bright                                b Lillee              25  63  44  2 0
MHN Walker            run out (Clark)                           9  19  21  0 0
CG Thwaites                              b Clark                7  24  21  0 0
AG Hurst              not out                                   2   5   4  0 0
Extras                (lb 5, nb 2)                              7
Total                 (all out, 37.3 overs, 164 mins)         164

FoW: 1-64 (Hibbert), 2-64 (Broad), 3-74 (Moss), 4-77 (Whatmore),
    5-110 (Yallop), 6-110 (Laughlin), 7-131 (Robinson),
    8-143 (Walker), 9-162 (Bright), 10-164 (Thwaites).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Lillee                       7      0     30      2
Malone                       8      1     34      2
Clark                        6.3    0     27      1 (2nb)
Yardley                      8      1     42      1
Brayshaw                     8      0     24      1

Western Australia innings (target: 165 runs from 40 overs)      R   M   B  4 6
BM Laird              c Thwaites         b Hurst               20  50  44  3 0
RI Charlesworth       run out (Broad/Robinson)                  7  52  42  0 0
RS Langer             lbw                b Laughlin             0  31   9  0 0
KJ Hughes             c Hibbert          b Hurst                7   6   5  1 0
IJ Brayshaw           lbw                b Hurst               21  11  13  2 1
CS Serjeant           c Walker           b Thwaites            38  87  63  4 0
*+RW Marsh            c Yallop           b Walker               7  14  11  1 0
B Yardley                            c & b Walker               0   3   2  0 0
MF Malone             not out                                  47 107  98  4 0
DK Lillee             run out (Robinson)                        5  20  15  1 0
WM Clark              not out                                   3  28  24  0 0
Extras                (lb 1, w 1, nb 8)                        10
Total                 (9 wickets, 39.3 overs, 210 mins)       165

FoW: 1-31 (Charlesworth), 2-31 (Laird), 3-38 (Hughes),
    4-60 (Brayshaw), 5-62 (Langer), 6-74 (Marsh),
    7-74 (Yardley), 8-125 (Serjeant), 9-139 (Lillee).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Walker                       8      2     11      2 (5nb)
Hurst                        8      0     31      3 (3nb)
Thwaites                     8      1     37      1
Laughlin                     5.3    0     41      1
Bright                       8      0     24      0
Hibbert                      2      0     11      0 (1w)

Note: Wides count as Balls Faced in the batsmens' analyses

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• Scorers: BW Bright (Victoria) and MP Ringham (Western Australia)
• 12th Men: ? (Victoria) and TM Chappell (Western Australia)
• Attendance: 32,908