Five-time champions Australia edged out gallant New Zealand by just five runs in the highest-scoring World Cup game in history on Saturday.
Australia piled up 388 all out as Travis Head top scored with 109 and fellow opener David Warner made 81.
"That was awesome. Sometimes I have to remember I'm out in the field, not a spectator. A fantastic game, they kept coming at us," said Australia skipper Pat Cummins.Trent Boult scampered for a single before Mitchell Starc donated five wides. That left Lockie Ferguson, who had injured his Achilles in the field, needing to perform the heroics off the last ball.
Earlier, Head, playing his first match of the tournament after being sidelined with a broken hand, reached his fourth one-day international hundred off 59 balls with 10 fours and six sixes.
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