Brendon McCullum won the toss and elected to bat first.Australia and New Zealand face off in the 2015 World Cup final in Melbourne and nearly a 100,000 people have thronged the stadium in the colosseum in Victoria. This is the summit event and this is the day the players play for since childhood. Australia are four-time winners and are playing their seventh final. New Zealand meanwhile, play their first ever final. Catch the ball-by-ball updates of the match here
Skipper Brendon McCullum hasn’t experimented too much with the combination. Adam Milne’s injury had allowed Mitchell McClenaghan a chance to play a match earlier in the tournament. Now, he is finally out of side and Matt Henry has replaced him. 10 out of 11 players in the side have played all the matches in this tournament.
Australia’s batting line-up has quite a few big hitting all-rounders to add muscle up their batting line-up. James Faulkner, Glenn Maxwell and Shane Watson has beefed up their middle order.
