Australia vs New Zealand 3 Innings Break
Posted by Hamish McBrearty on January 28th, 2007
Australia made 343/5 from 50 overs.
In New Zealand’s last game against Australia poor fielding cost them a chance to win the match, something even captain Stephen Fleming admitted. In their latest outing against Australia once again poor fielding has cost them any chance to win the match. Early on in the game Daniel Vettori dropped Matthew Hayden while he was on 0, and shortly after Hayden was again dropped by Ross Taylor while on 4. Hayden went on to make 117.
Adam Gilchrist was dismissed early, falling to a good catch at cover by Jeetan Patel, but from there it was all Australia. Hayden and captain Ricky Ponting put on 200 for the second wicket taking Australia from 28/1 to 228/2 with both batsmen reaching their centuries. Andrew Symonds hit a rapid fire 24, then Michael Hussey smashed the New Zealand attack to all corners of the ground scoring 29 off 16 balls.
New Zealand’s bowling was dreadful with too many boundary balls bowled and not enough containment. All of the bowlers took a pounding at the hands of the rampant Australian batsmen except for Daniel Vettori who once again showed his class finishing with figures of 1/34 off his 10 overs, and taking the prized wicket of Hayden. The bowling attack also managed to give away 18 wides with two deliveries in one Mark Gillespie over going for 4 wides.
For New Zealand to overhaul this massive Australian total they will need their top order to fire, something it hasn’t done all summer, and for the Australians to bowl and field poorly, which also hasn’t happened this summer. The required run rate is 6.88, meaning the pressure will be on the New Zealand batsmen from the very first ball.
I won’t be staying up to watch the result as the time difference means the game will finish well after midnight. My prediction: Australia by 160 runs.
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