Australia won the Cricket World Cup for the 5th time with a
comprehensive victory over New Zealand.
New Zealand lost influential captain Brendon McCullum to the fifth ball of
the match and were bowled out for 183.
Grant Elliott resisted with 83, while Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson and
James Faulkner shared eight wickets.
Team captain Michael Clarke, in his final one-day international, was given
a standing ovation by the record 93,000 crowd and welcomed by his
team-mates on the boundary when he was bowled by Matt Henry with eight required.
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