Australia vs New Zealand 1 Preview
Posted by Hamish McBrearty on January 13th, 2007
Today the second game of the Commonwealth Bank Series will be played in Hobart between Australia and New Zealand. Two rival nations who love to defeat each other.
Australia are coming off their 5-0 whitewash of England in the Ashes series as well as easy victories in the Twenty20 International and the first game of the Commonwealth Bank Series. New Zealand batted and bowled well in their series against Sri Lanka, just never in the same game.
The New Zealand bowling attack is inexperienced at this level due to injuries to front line bowlers Jacob Oram and Kyle Mills. However strike bowler Shand Bond will be in the team. Bond always seems to save his best for Australia and in particular Ricky Ponting. Bond has dismissed Ponting 6 out of the last 7 times the two have met.
New Zealand’s batting line up looks good on paper but is filled with batsmen out of form and lacking game time. Steven Flemming only played 1 game against Sri Lanka where he failed to score, Nathan Astle and Brendan McCullum looked good but failed to make big scores.
Australia have been in magnificent form in all forms of the game winning the ICC Champions Trophy last year and dominating the Ashes. Judging by England’s performance on Friday it would appear only New Zealand have any chance of beating them in the CB series, however given the Aussies’ dominant form a defeat seems unlikely.
I’ll be back with the teams and the result of the toss in about 20 minutes.
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