Australia will chase 184 to win Sunday’s World Cup final at the MCG, where Grant Elliott played a lone hand in an underwhelming New Zealand innings.

Elliott’s plucky 83, which included a successful review, helped push the Blackcaps to a total of 183 after Brendon McCullum won the toss.

Australia will fancy their chances of winning a fifth ODI title after rolling the opposition in 45 overs.

McCullum fell for a third-ball duck in a magnificent opening over from Mitchell Starc, who found the bottom of off stump with a superb in-dipper.

New Zealand stumbled to 3-39 in the 13th over, with dangermen Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson back in the sheds after tame dismissals to Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Johnson respectively.

Elliott, the hero of his side’s dramatic win over South Africa in their semi-final, stepped up under immense pressure again.

He received scant support from teammates.

The Johannesburg-born batsman shared a 111-run stand with Ross Taylor, the pair knuckling down particularly well in a two-over spell from Starc.

Taylor’s dismissal, engineered by James Faulkner but completed thanks to a diving one-handed catch from Brad Haddin triggered a woeful collapse of 7-33.

Elliott scored at a run a ball, turning the strike over easily and picking offside gaps with aplomb for the vast majority of his seven fours.

The 36-year-old was on 15 when he was trapped lbw by Maxwell in the 20th over.

However, umpire Kumar Dharmasena’s decision was overturned when ball-tracking technology suggested it had turned sharply and was going to miss leg stump.

Elliott’s next chance came in the 37th over, when he was on 72 and would have been run out had Steve Smith hit the stumps at the non-striker’s end.

Elliott benefited from another tight lbw review three overs later, with Clarke’s referral of a Faulkner appeal deemed to be umpire’s call.

The right-hander eventually fell to Faulkner, who claimed three wickets to be Australia’s leading wicket-taker alongside Johnson.

McCullum, Corey Anderson, Luke Ronchi and Matt Henry all failed to get off the mark.

LOWEST WINNING ODI TOTALS FROM TEAM BATTING FIRST:

*At MCG: Australia’s 9-173 v West Indies in 1991

*In World Cup final: India’s 183 v West Indies in 1983.