The final match of the tournament took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between co-hosts New Zealand and Australia with Australia winning by 7 wickets.
India was the defending champions, having won the tournament in 2011 when it was held in the Indian subcontinent, defeating Sri Lanka in the finals by 6 wickets. Tickets for the Pool B match between India and Pakistan scheduled on 15 February 2015, were reportedly sold out within 12 minutes.
Prize money:
The International Cricket Council has declared a total prize money pool of $10 million for the tournament, which is 20 percent more than the last edition. The prize money was distributed according to the performance of the team as follows:Winner: $3,975,000
Runner-up: $1,750,000
Losing semi-finalists: $600,000 (each)
Losing quarter-finalists: $300,000 (each)
Winner of each group match: $45,000 (each)
Teams eliminated in group stage: $35,000 (each)
Total:: $10,225,000
2015 ICC World Cup statistics
- Dates - 14 February to 29 March 2015
- Administrator - International Cricket Council
- Cricket format - One Day International
- Tournament formats - Round robin and Knockout
- Hosts - Australia and New Zealand
- Participants - 14 (from 104 entrants)
- Matches played - 49
- Most runs - Martin Guptill (547)
- Most wickets - Mitchell Starc (22) and Trent Boult (22)
- Man of the match in final - James Faulker
- Man of the series - Mitchell Starc
