At least we can hope the final finishes in a less farcical manner than in 2007...

As we begin to reflect on this tournament, allow us to share some of the best of social media. Let's begin with that game in Wellington where England were bowled out for 123 and the Kiwis knocked them off in 12.2 overs.

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Ayelet H Lushkov: 300 pea-rollers?

Jack of all trades: Disappointing total from NZ hope the bowlers strike early otherwise it's game over.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

Most ducks in an innings in a World Cup final:

• 5 - England v West Indies in 1979

• 4 - New Zealand today

• 3 - West Indies v England in 1979

Richard Simister: What is it with the Australian celebrations, sledging as they dismiss players? The most unsportsmanlike team I've ever seen.

BBC Radio Test Match Special

Keep listening to TMS during the interval as Aggers will shortly be speaking to ICC chief executive David Richardson - you can send in your questions via @bbctms on Twitter.

The Australia innings will begin at 08:40 BST.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport in Melbourne

"It's absolutely brilliant from Maxwell. If and when Australia win this World Cup, then we may reflect on two enduring images of this final. McCullum's dismissal was the foreboding extraction of hope, while Southee's run-out was the perfect demonstration of Aussie dominance. On the outfield, Michael Clarke has some throw-downs. I wonder if he'll be needed."

Jim Maxwell
BBC Test Match Special

"If you're an aspiring young right-arm quick, forget it. Put the ball in your left hand - look at the left-arm bowlers in today's final: Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson, James Faulkner, Trent Boult, Corey Anderson - and the spinner Daniel Vettori."

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"The lowest target defended in a World Cup final or any World Cup knockout game is 184 (same as today): India 183 v West Indies 140 in 1983."

New Zealand 183 all out from 45 overs (NZ won toss)

Fall of wickets: 1-1 (McCullum 0), 33-2 (Guptill 15), 39-3 (Williamson 12), 150-4 (Taylor 40), 150-5 (Anderson 0), 151-6 (Ronchi 0), 167-7 (Vettori 9), 171-8 (Elliott 83), 182-9 (Henry 0), 183-10 (Southee 11)

Not out batsman: Boult 0

Bowling figures: Starc 8-0-20-2, Hazlewood 8-2-30-0, Johnson 9-0-30-3, Maxwell 7-0-37-1, Faulkner 9-1-36-3, Watson 4-0-23-0

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Australia all-rounder James Faulkner: "Obviously it's a pretty good start by he boys and there's no reason we can't chase the runs. We've been working really hard on our fielding and it was another good performance."

So, if you're just waking up in the UK (and you think it's 7am as you've not put your clocks forward) Australia need 184 to win their fifth World Cup.

Incidentally, if they score 183 for a tie, we go to a champagne Super Over.

Kiwi fans... if you're offered a Super Over at this stage, would you take it?!

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Australia performed superbly in the field, they bowled well and not a single catch went down. There was one dropped in the crowd when Southee hit a six... but I think he might have been a Kiwi. It's not been a happy occasion so far for New Zealand."

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Jim Maxwell
BBC Test Match Special

"He didn't get his bat over the line, he stopped short of the line. It was a brilliant, spontaneous reaction from Glenn Maxwell. It looked like a harmless situation but Southee was just taken by surprise."

An astonishing piece of fielding from Glenn Maxwell at short mid-wicket ends the innings next ball as the dawdling Southee, having backed up didn't run his bat in properly while returning to the non-striker's end - the bat seemed to stop short of the popping crease - and Maxwell's throw runs him out. A superb, reactive piece of fielding that deserved a wicket.

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Trent Boult is the last man for New Zealand - and just what you don't want, when Mitchell Johnson slings down a bouncer off the last ball of an over, is for it to be called an aerial wide.

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Australia are back on course. There was a moment when New Zealand were 150-3 and it looked like it might be interesting. Henry just sliced that one to cover."

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Johnson has his third wicket - as Henry smacks the ball straight to cover for an unconvincing seven-ball duck.

Meanwhile, Australia are rather behind on the over-rate but as Jim Maxwell and Vic Marks note on TMS, it's all very well to suspend a captain from the next ODI for slow over-rates, when he's already said he's retiring from the format.

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Rob Gallagher: If NZ, can get anything over 200 then they have a chance, obviously a small one, of defending that total.

Far from being someone whose overs have needed to be smuggled through, Faulkner has been on song for Australia today. Southee tries to lift the ball over the ring of four cover fielders, but is struggling to deal with Faulkner's back-of-the-hand slower balls, which are proving unhittable, just as Jade Dernbach's, erm, aren't unhittable. A three through the covers is the only scoring shot from the over - Henry is yet to affect the scoreboard. Faulkner has 3-36 from nine.

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