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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 9th December 1979 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | West Indies won by 80 runs |
| Points | Australia 0; West Indies 2 |
| Umpires | KJ Carmody, RV Whitehead |
| Player of the Match | IVA Richards |
| West Indies innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CG Greenidge | c Marsh b Lillee | 11 | 20 | 35 | 1 | - | 55.00 |
| DL Haynes | c Marsh b Thomson | 80 | 122 | 181 | 5 | - | 65.57 |
| IVA Richards | not out | 153 | 130 | 173 | 16 | 1 | 117.69 |
| AI Kallicharran | not out | 16 | 17 | 26 | 2 | - | 94.12 |
| LG Rowe | did not bat | ||||||
| CL King | did not bat | ||||||
| *+DL Murray | did not bat | ||||||
| DR Parry | did not bat | ||||||
| AME Roberts | did not bat | ||||||
| J Garner | did not bat | ||||||
| MA Holding | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 10 lb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, innings closed, 48 overs) | 271 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28 (Greenidge), 2-233 (Haynes) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Lillee | 10 | 1 | 48 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.80 |
| Hogg | 10 | 1 | 50 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |
| Chappell | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| Thomson | 8 | 0 | 43 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 5.38 |
| Bright | 6 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.83 |
| Hookes | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.00 |
| Border | 7 | 0 | 40 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.71 |
| Wiener | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.00 |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BM Laird | b Holding | 7 | 15 | 28 | 1 | - | 46.67 |
| JM Wiener | c and b Parry | 27 | 64 | 67 | 2 | - | 42.19 |
| AR Border | run out | 44 | 58 | 90 | 2 | - | 75.86 |
| *GS Chappell | c Richards b King | 31 | 21 | 25 | 3 | - | 147.62 |
| KJ Hughes | b Holding | 12 | 16 | 13 | 1 | - | 75.00 |
| DW Hookes | c Murray b Roberts | 9 | 27 | 33 | - | - | 33.33 |
| +RW Marsh | c Rowe b Roberts | 13 | 11 | 13 | - | 1 | 118.18 |
| RJ Bright | not out | 19 | 43 | 51 | 1 | - | 44.19 |
| DK Lillee | b King | 19 | 24 | 28 | - | - | 79.17 |
| RM Hogg | not out | 3 | 9 | 10 | - | - | 33.33 |
| JR Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 6 lb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 48 overs) | 191 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16 (Laird), 2-54 (Wiener), 3-102 (Chappell), 4-119 (Hughes), 5-128 (Border), 6-147 (Hookes), 7-151 (Marsh), 8-185 (Lillee) | |||||||
| West Indies bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Roberts | 8 | 1 | 33 | 2 | - | - | 24.00 | 4.12 |
| Holding | 10 | 2 | 29 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.90 |
| Garner | 10 | 1 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.60 |
| King | 10 | 0 | 40 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.00 |
| Parry | 10 | 0 | 56 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 5.60 |
Notes
--> The match was reduced to 48 overs per side
--> IVA Richards passed his previous highest score of 138 in ODI matches
--> IVA Richards passed his previous highest score of 139 in List A matches
--> AR Border passed his previous highest score of 34 in ODI matches
--> GS Chappell passed 2000 runs in List A matches when he reached 6
--> KJ Hughes passed 500 runs in List A matches when he reached 7
--> RJ Bright passed his previous highest score of 17 in ODI matches
--> DK Lillee passed his previous highest score of 16 in ODI matches
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