Australia vs New Zealand 2 Preview
Posted by Hamish McBrearty on January 21st, 2007
Later today the 2nd half of this weekend’s double header sees Australia take on New Zealand from Sydney. New Zealand’s top fast bowler Shane Bond is still in doubt with a back injury and may not play today, while all rounder Jacob Oram comes back into the team. Oram provides some big hitting at the death as well as useful medium pace bowling.
Australia will look to continue with their rotation policy that saw captain Ricky Ponting sit out Friday’s game against England. Given Sydney’s reputation as being a good spinner’s wicket it is likely to see Australia continue to play leg spinner Cameron White and possibly bring in left arm spinner Brad Hogg.
New Zealand will continue with their spin twins Daniel Vettori and Jeetal Patel. But bowling has not been New Zealand’s problem in this series, batting has. New Zealand’s batting during this series has been poor with no single batsman consistently scoring. Ross Taylor scored 84 against Australia last time the two teams met in this series but received very little support.
If New Zealand are to win this game they need their batsmen to fire with at least one big score and several good supporting scores. Given the current form an Australian victory seems far more likely.
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