Final: Tasmania v Western Australia at Hobart, Jan 14, 1979

List A match

Gillette Cup (Australia) - Final Tasmania v Western Australia

1978/79 season

Played at Tasmania C.A. Ground, Hobart, on 14 January 1979 (50-over match) Result Tasmania won by 47 runs

	Tasmania innings (50 overs maximum)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
		GW Goodman	b Yardley	30	76	63	3	1	47.61
		SJ Howard	b Porter	19	88	59	2	0	32.20
		AJ Benneworth	c Serjeant b Porter	2	3	4	0	0	50.00
		JH Hampshire	c Clark b Yardley	8	11	12	2	0	66.66
		RD Woolley	b Mann	4	9	6	1	0	66.66
		TW Docking	not out	46	97	65	4	1	70.76
		DC Boon	b Mann	8	13	15	1	0	53.33
		J Simmons	not out	55	78	83	7	0	66.26
		Extras	(lb 2, nb 6)	8
		Total	(6 wickets; 50 overs; 194 mins)	180	(3.60 runs per over)

Did not bat GJ Cowmeadow, GR Whitney, MB Scholes

Fall of wickets1-51 (Goodman), 2-54 (Benneworth), 3-59 (Howard), 4-67 (Hampshire), 5-72 (Woolley), 6-84 (Boon)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	JB Gannon	10	2	44	0	4.40	(5nb)
	WM Clark	10	2	32	0	3.20
	GD Porter	10	3	29	2	2.90
	B Yardley	10	1	33	2	3.30	(1nb)
	AL Mann	10	0	34	2	3.40

	Western Australia innings (target: 181 runs from 50 overs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
		RJ Inverarity	c Docking b Simmons	22	60	52	2	0	42.30
		GM Wood	run out	19	71	39	2	0	48.71
		KJ Hughes	c & b Simmons	1	4	7	0	0	14.28
		AL Mann	b Simmons	9	23	21	1	0	42.85
		CS Serjeant	c Scholes b Simmons	47	113	78	6	0	60.25
		RI Charlesworth	lbw b Benneworth	8	26	16	1	0	50.00
		B Yardley	b Benneworth	0	1	3	0	0	0.00
		KJ Wright	b Benneworth	3	15	14	0	0	21.42
		GD Porter	b Cowmeadow	13	57	35	0	0	37.14
		WM Clark	not out	2	13	7	0	0	28.57
		JB Gannon	c Woolley b Cowmeadow	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
		Extras	(b 2, lb 6, nb 1)	9
		Total	(all out; 45 overs; 202 mins)	133	(2.95 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-38 (Inverarity), 2-42 (Hughes), 3-43 (Wood), 4-57 (Mann), 5-80 (Charlesworth), 6-80 (Yardley), 7-88 (Wright), 8-127 (Serjeant), 9-133 (Porter), 10-133 (Gannon)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	GJ Cowmeadow	8	0	21	2	2.62
	GR Whitney	7	1	25	0	3.57
	MB Scholes	10	1	42	0	4.20	(1nb)
	J Simmons	10	1	17	4	1.70
	AJ Benneworth	8.2	2	14	3	1.68
	GW Goodman	1.4	0	5	0	3.00

Toss Western Australia, who chose to field first Series Tasmania won the 1978/79 Gillette Cup (Australia) Player of the match J Simmons (Tasmania) Umpires K Connor and J Stevens

Match notes

• Scorers: L Howe (Western Australia) and T Hume (Tasmania)
• 12th men: MJ Norman (Tasmania) and TM Alderman (Western Australia)
• Attendance: 10,822 ($21428.00)
• AJ Benneworth was unable to complete his ninth over and the remaining four balls were bowled by GW Goodman.