Final: Queensland v Western Australia at Brisbane, 22 Feb 1981

McDonald's Cup, 1980/81, Final
Queensland v Western Australia
Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
22 February 1981 (50-over match)

Result: Queensland won by 72 runs
Series: Queensland wins the 1980/81 McDonald's Cup

Toss: Queensland
Umpires: CE Harvey and MW Johnson
Man of the Match: MF Kent

Queensland innings (48 overs maximum)                           R   M   B  4 6
KC Wessels            c Serjeant         b Malone              53 123  78  2 0
MF Kent               c O'Neill          b Baker               41  68  56  6 0
*GS Chappell          c Lillee           b Yardley             14  46  31  0 0
AR Border             c Lillee           b Alderman            13  66  37  0 0
GM Ritchie            run out (Hughes/Marsh)                   14  28  25  0 0
WR Broad              c McEwan           b Baker               21  35  29  0 0
+RB Phillips          not out                                  13  29  14  1 0
DC Schuller                              b Lillee               5   8   6  0 0
JR Thomson            run out (Baker/Marsh)                     5   6   7  0 0
G Dymock              run out (McEwan/Lillee)                   1   3   2  0 0
CG Rackemann          not out                                   0   3   6  0 0
Extras                (lb 6, nb 2)                              8
Total                 (9 wickets, 48 overs, 212 mins)         188

FoW: 1-68 (Kent), 2-110 (Chappell), 3-113 (Wessels),
   4-131 (Ritchie), 5-157 (Border), 6-164 (Broad),
   7-177 (Schuller), 8-186 (Thomson), 9-188 (Dymock).

Bowling                 O       M       R       W
Lillee                 10       0      37       1 (2nb)
Malone                 10       3      28       1
Alderman               10       1      40       1
Baker                   8       0      37       2
Yardley                10       2      38       1

Western Australia innings (target: 189 runs from 48 overs)      R   M   B  4 6
GM Wood               c Phillips         b Thomson              3  22  14  0 0
MD O'Neill            lbw                b Rackemann            6  33  20  1 0
*KJ Hughes            run out (Dymock/Phillips)                 0   1   1  0 0
KS McEwan             c Phillips         b Dymock               2  13   5  0 0
CS Serjeant           c Chappell         b Broad               28  94  70  1 0
+RW Marsh             c Chappell         b Dymock              17  24  26  1 0
B Yardley             c Rackemann        b Thomson             12  10   7  2 0
DK Lillee             c Ritchie          b Schuller             0   5   5  0 0
DJ Baker              not out                                  21  74  45  2 0
MF Malone             c Wessels          b Broad               10  20  12  0 0
TM Alderman                              b Rackemann            0   5   5  0 0
Extras                (b 5, lb 1, w 3, nb 8)                   17
Total                 (all out, 32.5 overs, 155 mins)         116

FoW: 1-14 (Wood), 2-15 (Hughes), 3-19 (O'Neill), 4-19 (McEwan),
   5-38 (Marsh), 6-55 (Yardley), 7-55 (Lillee),
   8-92 (Serjeant), 9-116 (Malone), 10-116 (Alderman).

Bowling                 O       M       R       W
Thomson                 7       0      26       2 (1w, 7nb)
Rackemann               6.5     2      11       2 (2w)
Dymock                 10       2      34       2 (1nb)
Schuller                4       1      11       1
Broad                   5       0      17       2

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• Scorers: HA Browton (Western Australia) and R Spence (Queensland)
• 12th Men: TV Hohns (Queensland) and G Shipperd (Western Australia)
• Attendance: 20,043 ($51686.00)