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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 4th February 1979 (40-over match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Australia won by 4 wickets |
| Umpires | RC Bailhache, DG Weser |
| Scorers | MP Ringham (Australia), GGA Saulez (England) |
| Player of the Match | DI Gower |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| G Boycott | lbw b Laughlin | 33 | 86 | 117 | 1 | - | 38.37 |
| *JM Brearley | c Wright b Dymock | 0 | 2 | 6 | - | - | 0.00 |
| DW Randall | lbw b Dymock | 4 | 14 | 14 | - | - | 28.57 |
| GA Gooch | c Hurst b Carlson | 19 | 50 | 63 | 2 | - | 38.00 |
| DI Gower | not out | 101 | 100 | 120 | 9 | - | 101.00 |
| IT Botham | c Wood b Hurst | 31 | 41 | 46 | 3 | - | 75.61 |
| +DL Bairstow | run out | 1 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 25.00 |
| CM Old | not out | 16 | 24 | 37 | - | - | 66.67 |
| RGD Willis | did not bat | ||||||
| M Hendrick | did not bat | ||||||
| JK Lever | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 3 lb, 1 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 40 overs) | 212 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Brearley), 2-7 (Randall), 3-50 (Gooch), 4-89 (Boycott), 5-153 (Botham), 6-158 (Bairstow) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Hurst | 8 | 1 | 36 | 1 | - | - | 64.00 | 4.50 |
| Dymock | 8 | 1 | 31 | 2 | - | - | 32.00 | 3.88 |
| Carlson | 8 | 1 | 27 | 1 | - | - | 64.00 | 3.38 |
| Cosier | 8 | 0 | 48 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| Laughlin | 8 | 0 | 63 | 1 | - | - | 64.00 | 7.88 |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GM Wood | b Old | 23 | 54 | 85 | 2 | - | 42.59 |
| WM Darling | c Old b Willis | 7 | 12 | 14 | 1 | - | 58.33 |
| KJ Hughes | c Boycott b Lever | 50 | 99 | 114 | 4 | - | 50.51 |
| *GN Yallop | c Gower b Hendrick | 31 | 66 | 94 | 1 | - | 46.97 |
| PM Toohey | not out | 54 | 55 | 100 | 2 | - | 98.18 |
| GJ Cosier | b Lever | 28 | 14 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 200.00 |
| PH Carlson | c Boycott b Lever | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| TJ Laughlin | not out | 15 | 11 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 136.36 |
| +KJ Wright | did not bat | ||||||
| G Dymock | did not bat | ||||||
| AG Hurst | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 1 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 38.6 overs) | 215 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (Darling), 2-55 (Wood), 3-90 (Hughes), 4-145 (Yallop), 5-185 (Cosier), 6-185 (Carlson) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Willis | 8 | 1 | 21 | 1 | - | - | 64.00 | 2.62 |
| Lever | 7 | 1 | 51 | 3 | - | - | 18.67 | 7.29 |
| Hendrick | 8 | 0 | 47 | 1 | - | - | 64.00 | 5.88 |
| Old | 8 | 1 | 31 | 1 | - | - | 64.00 | 3.88 |
| Botham | 7.6 | 0 | 58 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.48 |