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{{Infobox limited overs final
| title                   = 1982 Women's Cricket<br />World Cup Final
| image                   = File:Lancaster Park, Christchurch, 1978 crop.jpg
| caption                 = The final was played at [[Lancaster Park]], pictured in 1978.
| event                   = {{nobr|[[1982 Women's Cricket World Cup]]}}
| team1                   = [[England women's cricket team|England]]
| team1flag               = {{flagicon|England|size=30px}}
| team1score              = 151/5
| team1overs              = 60 overs
| team2                   = [[Australia women's national cricket team|Australia]]
| team2flag               = {{flagicon|Australia|size=30px}}
| team2score              = 152/7
| team2overs              = 59 overs
| details                 = Australia won by three wickets
| date                    = 7 February 1982
| stadium                 = [[Lancaster Park]]
| attendance              =
| city                    = [[Christchurch]],<br />New Zealand
| man_of_the_match        =
| man_of_the_match_title  =
| umpires                 = [[Dickie Bird]] and [[Fred Goodall]]
| next                    = [[1988 Women's Cricket World Cup Final|1988]]
}}
The '''1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final''' was a [[one-day cricket]] match between the [[Australia women's national cricket team]] and the [[England women's cricket team]] played on 7 February 1982 at [[Lancaster Park]] in [[Christchurch]], New Zealand. It marked the culmination of the [[1982 Women's Cricket World Cup]], the third edition of [[Women's Cricket World Cup|the tournament]], but was the first time a final had been held; both the previous events had been [[round-robin tournament]]s. Both Australia and England had previously won the competition; England won [[1973 Women's Cricket World Cup|the inaugural tournament in 1973]], while Australia won [[1978 Women's Cricket World Cup|in 1978]]. Australia won the match [[Wicket#Winning by number of wickets|by three wickets]] to claim their second world title.
Australia and England finished first and second in the league-stage to claim their places in the final. Australia had gone unbeaten throughout the round-robin, having won eleven of their matches and [[Tie (cricket)|tied]] with England in the other. England had won seven of their matches, lost three and tied twice, and finished 14 points behind Australia and 6 ahead of New Zealand. The final was [[Umpire (cricket)|umpired]] by [[Dickie Bird]] and [[Fred Goodall]]. England [[Batting (cricket)|batted]] first in the final, and scored slowly, particularly against Australia's [[spin bowling]]. [[Jan Southgate]] top-scored for England with 53 [[Run (cricket)|runs]], as they made 151 for five. In response, Australia initially struggled, losing their first three wickets for 28 runs. A [[Partnership (cricket)|partnership]] between [[Karen Read]] and [[Sharon Tredrea]] recovered their [[innings]], before quick scoring from [[Jen Jacobs]] and [[Marie Cornish]] saw them to victory.
==Background==
The [[1982 Women's Cricket World Cup]] was the third [[Women's Cricket World Cup]]. The first had been [[1973 Women's Cricket World Cup|held in 1973]], pre-dating the first [[Cricket World Cup|men's Cricket World Cup]] by two years.<ref name="icc-hist"/> The 1982 tournament featured five teams; [[Australia national women's cricket team|Australia]], [[England women's cricket team|England]], [[India national women's cricket team|India]], [[New Zealand national women's cricket team|New Zealand]] and an [[International XI women's cricket team|International XI]].<ref name="wisden"/> It took place between 10 January and 7 February, featuring 31 matches over 29 days.<ref name="matches">{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/scores/series/8584/season/1982/hansells-vita-fresh-womens-world-cup |title=Hansells Vita Fresh Women's World Cup 1982 – Fixtures and Results |website=[[ESPNcricinfo]] |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> England had won the first world cup on home soil, before Australia claimed [[1978 Women's Cricket World Cup|the second]], held in India. Neither tournament had featured a final, but had rather been league competitions, in which the team which finished with the most points won.<ref name="icc-hist"/>
==Route to the final==
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Each team played twelve matches during the round-robin stage of the tournament, facing each other three times. The top two teams would progress directly to the final, the first time the tournament would feature a final.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nzcricketmuseum.co.nz/1982-womens-cricket-world-cup/ |title=The 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup |last=Bell |first=Jamie |date=16 May 2017 |publisher=New Zealand Cricket Museum |access-date=30 March 2020 |archive-date=7 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407144813/http://nzcricketmuseum.co.nz/1982-womens-cricket-world-cup/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Australia remained unbeaten; they won eleven of their matches and [[Tie (cricket)|tied]] their other, against England.<ref name="icc-hist"/> On the opening day of the tournament, [[Jill Kennare]] scored 98 runs, as Australia beat India by 153 runs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8584/scorecard/66916/australia-women-vs-india-women-1st-match-hansells-vita-fresh-womens-world-cup-1981-82 |title=1st Match, Hansells Vita Fresh Women's World Cup at Auckland, Jan 10 1982 |website=[[ESPNcricinfo]] |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> Four days later, England's [[Jan Brittin]] made the highest score of the tournament, 138 [[not out]], against the International XI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_innings.html?id=924;type=tournament |title=Records / Hansells Vita Fresh Women's World Cup, 1981/82 / High scores |website=[[ESPNcricinfo]] |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> England won seven of their matches, lost three times (twice against Australia and once against India), and tied two matches (in addition to the tie against Australia, they also tied with New Zealand).<ref name="matches"/> Australia finished top of the table with 46 points, and England were second with 32. Hosts New Zealand scored 26 points, India 16, while the International XI lost all their matches to finish with no points.<ref name="wisden"/>
==Match==
===Summary===
The final was played at [[Lancaster Park]], in [[Christchurch]], New Zealand, on 7 February, in front of a crowd of around 3,000.<ref name="wisden">{{cite book |editor-last=Woodcock |editor-first=John |editor-link=John Woodcock (cricket writer) |title=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1983]] |location=London |publisher=Queen Anne Press |chapter=Women's Cricket, 1982 |last=Rheinberg |first=Netta |author-link=Netta Rheinberg |pages=1193–1195 |isbn=0-356-09382-4}}</ref> The match was [[Umpire (cricket)|umpired]] by a New Zealander, [[Fred Goodall]], and the English umpire, [[Dickie Bird]]. By officiating in the match, Bird became the only umpire to stand in both a men's and women's World Cup final, having previously umpired the [[1975 Cricket World Cup Final]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfT2qjcg6PoC&pg=PT158 |title=Dickie Bird Autobiography: An honest and frank story |last=Bird |first=Dickie |author-link=Dickie Bird |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |location=London |year=1997 |isbn=978-1-444-75607-4 |page=158}}</ref> The England [[Captain (cricket)|captain]], [[Susan Goatman]], won the [[Toss (cricket)|toss]],{{efn|Contemporary Australian newspaper reports stated that Australia won the toss,<ref name="report-age">{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46565103/ |title=Cup win a thriller |work=[[The Age]] |location=Melbourne |page=28 |date=8 February 1982 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="report-smh">{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46565151/ |title=Australian women win final |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |location=Sydney |page=33 |date=8 February 1982 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> but online scorecards, and the [[International Cricket Council]]'s history of the Women's World Cup, record that England won the toss and chose to bat first.<ref name="ciscore"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/42/42029.html |url-access=subscription |title=Australia Women v England Women: Hansells Vita Fresh Women's World Cup 1981/82 (Final) |website=CricketArchive |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="icc-hist">{{cite web |url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/womens-world-cup/history |title=ICC Women's World Cup History |publisher=[[International Cricket Council]] |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref>}} and chose to bat first on a [[Cricket pitch|pitch]] described as "placid" by the Australian press.<ref name="report-age"/><ref name="report-smh"/> The England [[Batting order (cricket)#Opening batsmen|opening batters]], Brittin and Goatman, scored slowly, putting on 42 runs together before Brittin was dismissed by a diving catch from [[Marie Cornish]] off her own bowling for 17 runs. England scored another 12 runs before Goatman was bowled by [[Lyn Fullston]] for 29. Fullston was also the bowler for the next wicket; [[Chris Watmough]] was caught at mid-on by Kennare for 9, and England were 63 for three.<ref name="report-age"/> England's experienced partnership of [[Jan Southgate]] and [[Rachael Heyhoe-Flint]] aimed to recover the England innings, but were restricted by Australia's spin bowling.<ref name="report-smh"/> Southgate in particular was described in ''[[The Age]]'' as being "uncomfortable against the spin",<ref name="report-age"/> while ''[[The Times]]'' criticised Heyhoe-Flint for "not forcing the pace when England had wickets in hand."<ref name="report-times">{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS285968968/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=TTDA&xid=3cb01fea |title=England's women fail to force the pace |work=[[The Times]] |date=8 February 1982 |issue=61152 |page=17 |location=London |via=Gale}}</ref> In the final ten [[Over (cricket)|overs]], the England batters began to score more quickly;<ref name="report-smh"/> but both were dismissed shortly before the close of the innings. Southgate, who made the team's highest score, 53 runs, was caught by [[Sharyn Hill]] off the bowling of [[Sharon Tredrea]], while Heyhoe-Flint was caught by Fullston off Tredrea's bowling for 29. England finished with 151 for five.<ref name="ciscore"/>
Australia's reply started poorly; they lost three wickets in the first eleven overs, taking the score to 28 for three. Their opening pair, [[Peta Verco]] and Hill, were both caught by Goatman off the bowling of [[Avril Starling]], while Kennare was the first of three Australian to be [[run out]]. [[Karen Read]] and Australia's captain, Tredrea, formed a solid partnership and steadied their team's innings. The pair scored 54 runs together before they were both dismissed in quick succession; Read was caught by Southgate off the bowling of [[Janet Tedstone]] for 32, while Tredrea was caught behind off [[Carole Hodges]] for 25. Australia were 97 for five, needing another 55 runs to win. England adopted a tight field to minimise Australia's scoring options, but [[Jen Jacobs]] lofted the ball over the fielders during her innings of 37, which ''The Times'' described as one of the highlights of the match.<ref name="report-age"/><ref name="report-times"/> Cornish, who had been playing a support role until that point, then assumed control and scored seven runs from one over bowled by [[Enid Bakewell]], but with Australia still needing seven runs, [[Raelee Thompson]] was run out. ''The Times'' praised England's "excellent work in the field",<ref name="report-times"/> though it was ultimately a mis-field that gave Australia their winning run in the penultimate over.<ref name="report-guard">{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47618974/ |title=Final defeat for England |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=8 February 1982 |page=17 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Cornish remained not out with 24 runs, and Australia won the match by three wickets with six balls remaining.<ref name="ciscore"/>
===Scorecard===
* '''Toss''': England won the toss and elected to field first
* '''Result''': Australia won by three wickets<ref name="ciscore">{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8584/scorecard/66971/australia-women-vs-england-women-final-hansells-vita-fresh-womens-world-cup-1981-82 |title=Final, Hansells Vita Fresh Women's World Cup at Christchurch, Feb 7 1982 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=12 March 2020}}</ref>
{| cellpadding="1" style="border:gray solid 1px; text-align:center; width:60%;" class="wikitable"
|+ England batting innings
|-
! scope="col" | [[Batsman]]
! scope="col" | [[Dismissal (cricket)|Method of dismissal]]
! scope="col" | [[Run (cricket)|Runs]]
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Jan Brittin]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c & b [[Marie Cornish]] || 17
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Susan Goatman]] {{asterisk}}
| style=" text-align: left;" | b [[Lyn Fullston]] || 29
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Chris Watmough]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Jill Kennare]] b [[Lyn Fullston]] || 9
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Jan Southgate]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Sharyn Hill]] b [[Sharon Tredrea]] || 53
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Rachael Heyhoe-Flint]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Lyn Fullston]] b [[Sharon Tredrea]] || 29
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Glynis Hullah]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[not out]]|| 1
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Enid Bakewell]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[not out]] || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | Extras
| style=" text-align: left;" | (5 [[Bye (cricket)|byes]], 7 [[leg bye]]s, 1 wide) || 13
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | '''Totals'''
| style=" text-align: left;" | (60 overs, 2.51 runs per over) || '''151/5'''
|- style="text-align:left;"
| colspan="3" | ''Did not bat'': [[Carole Hodges]], [[Janet Tedstone]], [[Shirley Hodges]] {{dagger}}, [[Avril Starling]]
|}
{| cellpadding="1" style="border:gray solid 1px; text-align:center; width:60%;" class="wikitable"
|+ Australia bowling
|-
! scope="col" style="width:25%;"| [[Bowler (cricket)|Bowler]]
! scope="col" | [[Over (cricket)|Overs]]
! scope="col" | [[Over (cricket)|Maidens]]
! scope="col" | [[Run (cricket)|Runs]]
! scope="col" | [[Wicket]]s
! scope="col" | [[Economy rate (cricket)|Economy]]
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Sharon Tredrea]]
| 12 || 2 || 36 || 2 || 3.00
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Raelee Thompson]]
| 12 || 2 || 34 || 0 || 2.83
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Denise Martin]]
| 12 || 2 || 31 || 0 || 2.58
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Marie Cornish]]
| 12 || 6 || 17 || 1 || 1.41
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Lyn Fullston]]
| 12 || 3 || 20 || 2 || 1.66
|}
{| cellpadding="1" style="border:gray solid 1px; text-align:center; width:60%;" class="wikitable"
|+ Australia batting innings
|-
! scope="col" | [[Batsman]]
! scope="col" | [[Dismissal (cricket)|Method of dismissal]]
! scope="col" | [[Run (cricket)|Runs]]
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Peta Verco]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Susan Goatman]] b [[Avril Starling]] || 7
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Sharyn Hill]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Susan Goatman]] b [[Avril Starling]] || 12
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Jill Kennare]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[run out]] || 4
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Karen Read]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Jan Southgate]] b [[Janet Tedstone]] || 32
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Sharon Tredrea]] {{asterisk}}
| style=" text-align: left;" | c [[Shirley Hodges]] {{dagger}} b [[Carole Hodges]] || 25
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Jen Jacobs]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[run out]] || 37
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Marie Cornish]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[not out]] || 24
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Raelee Thompson]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[run out]] || 3
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Lyn Fullston]]
| style=" text-align: left;" | [[not out]] || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | Extras
| style=" text-align: left;" | (2 [[Bye (cricket)|byes]], 3 [[leg bye]]s, 2 [[no ball]]s, 1 wide) || 8
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | '''Totals'''
| style=" text-align: left;" | (59 overs, 2.57 runs per over) || '''152/7'''
|- style="text-align:left;"
| colspan="3" | ''Did not bat'': [[Denise Martin]], [[Terri Russell]] {{dagger}}
|}
{| cellpadding="1" style="border:gray solid 1px; text-align:center; width:60%;" class="wikitable"
|+ England bowling
|-
! scope="col" style="width:25%;"| [[Bowler (cricket)|Bowler]]
! scope="col" | [[Over (cricket)|Overs]]
! scope="col" | [[Over (cricket)|Maidens]]
! scope="col" | [[Run (cricket)|Runs]]
! scope="col" | [[Wicket]]s
! scope="col" | [[Economy rate (cricket)|Economy]]
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Janet Tedstone]]
| 12 || 4 || 24 || 1 || 2.00
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Avril Starling]]
| 11 || 3 || 21 || 2 || 1.90
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Glynis Hullah]]
| 11 || 0 || 35 || 0 || 3.18
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Enid Bakewell]]
| 12 || 3 || 26 || 0 || 2.16
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Carole Hodges]]
| 12 || 1 || 33 || 1 || 2.75
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;" | [[Chris Watmough]]
| 1 || 0 || 5 || 0 || 5.00
|}
'''Umpires''':
* [[Dickie Bird]] and [[Fred Goodall]]
'''Key'''
* {{asterisk}} – [[Captain (cricket)|Captain]]
* {{dagger}} – [[Wicket-keeper]]
* c ''Fielder'' – Indicates that the batsman was dismissed by a catch by the named [[Fielding (cricket)|fielder]]
* b ''Bowler'' – Indicates which [[Bowling (cricket)|bowler]] gains credit for the dismissal
* c & b ''Bowler'' – Indicates that the batsman was dismissed by a catch by the bowler
==Aftermath==
England's Brittin finished at the tournament's leading run-scorer, with 391 runs, while Australia's Fullston took the most wickets, with 23.<ref name="icc-hist"/> England's captain, Goatman, announced her retirement after the tournament; she had led England for three years, having previously captained the [[Young England women's cricket team|Young England team]] during the 1973 tournament. Southgate was appointed as her replacement as captain. Writing for ''[[Wisden]]'', [[Netta Rheinberg]] noted that England could no longer "consider themselves able to fend off all challenges", and that as a result they implemented efforts to improve cricket at a junior level, to encourage future talent.<ref name="wisden"/>
Australia and England met again in [[1988 Women's Cricket World Cup Final|the final]] of the [[1988 Women's Cricket World Cup]], when Australia won by eight wickets. Between them, Australia and England have won ten of the eleven Women's Cricket World Cups; only [[2000 Women's Cricket World Cup|in 2000]] did one of the pair fail to win, when New Zealand beat Australia [[2000 Women's Cricket World Cup Final|in the final]].<ref name="icc-hist"/>
==Notes==
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