Australia vs New Zealand 2 Pre-Game
Posted by Hamish McBrearty on January 21st, 2007
New Zealand have won the toss and elected to bat.
Looks like an excellent wicket for batting, with a few green patches to encourage the seam bowlers. Australia have decided not to go with two spinners and left Brad Hogg out in favour of Stuart Clark, probably something to do with the green patches in the pitch. It’s an extremely hot day in Sydney today, so it will be very uncomfortable for the Australians in the field.
New Zealand have left out Shane Bond with a back injury and also Jeetan Patel, bringing in Michael Mason and Hamish Marshall. This leaves the New Zealand team 1 specialist bowler short so expect Nathan Astle and Craig McMillan to pick up the slack.
Teams
New Zealand
- Brendan McCullum
- Nathan Astle
- Stephen Fleming
- Ross Taylor
- Hamish Marshall
- Peter Fulton
- Craig McMillan
- Daniel Vettori
- James Franklin
- Michael Mason
- Mark Gillespie
Australia
- Adam Gilchrist
- Matthew Hayden
- Ricky Ponting
- Michael Clark
- Andrew Symonds
- Michael Hussey
- Cameron While
- Brett Lee
- Stuart Clark
- Nathan Bracken
- Glenn McGrath
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