Both England and Australia are heading towards the big day in their own ways.
Defending champions England have been buoyed by an incredible turnaround that saw them win five crucial matches after losing their first three matches of the tournament.
While the Aussies are on their way to a record seventh world title and extending their winning streak to 11 matches.
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Interestingly, despite winning 10 of the last 11 World Cups between them, England and Australia will be facing each other in an ICC World Cup final for the first time in 34 years.
The two sides began their campaigns together in Hamilton about a month ago and will end them together, one holding the trophy, the other overlooking Hagley Oval.
Australia have only lost one World Cup final but that was not too far from the setting for Sunday’s finale. back in 2000, right down the road from Christchurch At the Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln, Australia lost the closest final ever, being beaten by New Zealand by just four runs.
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That year, England recorded their worst performance in the fifth World Cup before fighting back to take the trophy from Australia in 2009.
In doing so, they would have a remarkable year, in which they claimed their first, and only, T20 World Cup as well as Ashes victory.
This is something that Australia are looking forward to match after 13 years, as they have already secured the T20 trophy, which was secured on home soil in 2020 ahead of the Ashes with two matches in February, But the one-day World Cup survived them.
vice captain Rachel Haynes Already has a winner’s medal since 2013, and he is on his way to a competition record, the opening batsman sitting on 429 runs for the tournament, 27 behind. Debbie Hawkley New Zealand’s all-time best set in 1997.
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This is the only record he can’t break on Sunday as a left-arm spinner. Sophie Ecclestone He has a chance to surpass Australian Lynn Fulston, whose record of 23 wickets in 1982 is going to be defeated.
Ecclestone sits on 20 for his first international five-wicket haul in the semi-final win against South Africa, which ends at six for 36, the best figures by an England bowler in a World Cup.
The left-arm spinner is a symbol of England’s journey throughout the tournament that she is reaching the pinnacle at just the right time.
The 22-year-old started with his worst figures in ODI cricket without a wicket at 77 against Australia.
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This highlighted how shaky England’s beginnings were; A dropped catch allowed Australia to post 310 for three in the opening game, before more fielding woes handed West Indies a famous victory.
South Africa defeated England in the World Cup for the first time in 22 years, leaving the defending champions with three losses in their first three matches as their four remaining clashes must be won.
And they went on to win, beating India, New Zealand, Pakistan and Bangladesh to make their way into the knockouts and set up a 2017 semi-final rematch with South Africa.
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England looked comfortably at the Proteas to keep their hopes of a fifth title alive, and Ecclestone acclaimed captain heather knightAs the lead, he guided his side back from the brink.
Knight has a chance to create history as the first England captain to have guided her team to trophies in a row.
Australia’s star all-rounder Ellyse Perry New Zealand is on track to take his place in the showpiece after missing out on a back problem in the team’s last two matches. She did two crunch training sessions in Christchurch before the final.