- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR1.1 Gilchrist is gone! Caught at third man. Short and wide, he has biffed them for sixes before, he goes back and across, frees his arms and it flies off a thick edge straight to Mark Gillespie. Franklin has a sheepish smile on him. 7/132.4 Styris takes a beauty, running back towards the 30-yard circle. Off cutter, on the middle and Hayden has a swing across the line and ends up lobbing it high towards long on. The fielder rushes forward from the deep, Styris runs back ,gravity pulls the ball down and Styris reaches, lunges forward to grab it. Fab knock from Hayden. 216/322.6 Suddenly, against the run of play, Ponting falls. Tossed-up, full in length, on the off stump line, Ponting skips down the track and whips it, but it goes in the air and Ross Taylor, at midwicket, jumps up to grab it. Ponting was trying to get it past Taylor and ping the cow corner but he hit it straight at the fielder. 144/235.3 OMG! Clarke shoulders arms and hey presto! the middle stump has gone for a walk. Unbelievable! Comedy of errors. It was a slower one, on the middle, Clarke backed away, raised his bat and then was indecisive what to with the delivery. He just let the bat hang high and watched in horror his own demise. It went through straight, (get the bat down man get the bat down, nope) and kissed the middle stump. Clarke is gone. Bizarre. Watch it on the Youtube. 233/449.3 Fools Hussey with a slower one. From over the wicket, full and outside off, Hussey went down his knee and tried to swing it across the line, got a top edge to square-leg. 334/640.1 Done in the flight and Mason gets under a swirling delivery at long off. Tossed-up and Symonds charged out but it dipped outside off stump and Symonds reached out and ended up scooping it out high. It swirled as it came down, Mason went left and left, then to right, the ball came down as if its drunk, swaying and swirling and he lunged back to take the catch. Well done. 257/5Extras16 (lb 1, nb 10, w 5)TOTAL348/6 (50 Overs, RR: 6.96)Fall of wickets: 1-7 (AC Gilchrist, 1.1 ov), 2-144 (RT Ponting, 22.6 ov), 3-216 (ML Hayden, 32.4 ov), 4-233 (MJ Clarke, 35.3 ov), 5-257 (A Symonds, 40.1 ov), 6-334 (MEK Hussey, 49.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB MJ Mason 3 0 27 0 9.00 7 2 1 1 1 JEC Franklin 8 0 74 3 9.25 27 10 2 1 5 JS Patel 10 0 48 2 4.80 25 2 0 0 1 DL Vettori 10 0 60 0 6.00 19 4 0 0 2 SB Styris 10 0 50 1 5.00 28 3 1 2 0 MR Gillespie 6 0 67 0 11.16 8 8 2 0 1 CD McMillan 3 0 21 0 7.00 5 2 0 0 0
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR25.5 Another googly. Another victim. Fulton is the last man to fall. It was flighted outside leg stump, Fulton shaped to paddle it fine, missed and it came back to crash into the stumps. 133/103.3 gets him with a bouncer. Fleming is not happy. Banged in short, on the middle and off, Fleming tries to pull off the front foot, the ball bounces more than he anticipated, and thudded into his left arm before bobbing away to Ponting at second slip. They go up in appeal and Aleem Dar raises the fatal finger. No wonder Fleming was not happy, it beat the bat and went off the arm. 21/15.1 McGrath gets a wicket off his first ball. Wicket no 66 for him in World cups. Banged in short, Taylor is on the front foot, goes for a pull from there and hits straight to midwicket. McGrath is obviously happy. Looks at the batsman, claps before running away towards the catcher. 29/211.1 Victim no 67 in the World Cups. Styris charged out a length-delivery, had a heave, got a bottom-edge and flies straight to Hayden at short midwicket. 77/312.3 nailed 'em. Full length ball pitching on off and rattling McMillan's pads. It strikes him on middle and, despite Tait delivering from a wide angle, it would have gone on to hit leg stump. Asad Rauf waits for the long appeal to subside before lifting the finger. It's the slowest death of all and McMillan has to go. Tait has struck 80/414.3 done by the change of pace. Around 111k slower one, full and outside off, Franklin goes for a drive, is early into the stroke, gets a inside-edge and drags on to the stumps. Five down and boy are they wobbling or what? 89/519.3 McCullum slog sweeps straight to Hussey at deep midwicket. Flighted up, on the off stump line and McCullum tries to sweep it to deep square-leg, instead it flies to deep midwicket. 111/621.1 Another one goes down. Vettori heads for the dressing room. Hogg flighted it, on the off stump line, Vettori goes for a sweep but top-edges it to Symonds at backward square-leg. 117/723.5 googly does the trick. Floated up, on the middle, Gillespie has a slog-sweep across the line and ends up lobbing a dolly to McGrath at mid-on. 127/824.5 And then they were one. well outside the off stump, full in length, Mason fishes at it and Asad Rauf reckons he got a itsy bitsy teeny weeny nick. 133/9Extras9 (nb 2, w 7)TOTAL133 all out (25.5 Overs, RR: 5.14)Fall of wickets: 1-21 (SP Fleming, 3.3 ov), 2-29 (LRPL Taylor, 5.1 ov), 3-77 (SB Styris, 11.1 ov), 4-80 (CD McMillan, 12.3 ov), 5-89 (JEC Franklin, 14.3 ov), 6-111 (BB McCullum, 19.3 ov), 7-117 (DL Vettori, 21.1 ov), 8-127 (MR Gillespie, 23.5 ov), 9-133 (MJ Mason, 24.5 ov), 10-133 (PG Fulton, 25.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB NW Bracken 4 0 27 0 6.75 14 2 1 1 0 SW Tait 6 0 32 3 5.33 22 4 0 4 1 GD McGrath 4 0 25 2 6.25 12 3 0 0 1 GB Hogg 6.5 1 29 4 4.24 23 2 0 1 0 SR Watson 5 0 20 1 4.00 19 1 0 1 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
Australia , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
09.30 start, First Session 09.30-13.00. Interval 13.00-13.45, Second Session 13.45-17.15
Match days
20 April 2007 (50-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Australia 2, New Zealand 0
Match Notes
- Australia: 50 runs in 7.3 overs (47 balls), Extras 2
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 42 balls (ML Hayden 22, RT Ponting 24, Ex 4)
- Australia: 100 runs in 15.1 overs (98 balls), Extras 7
- Drinks: Australia - 102/1 in 16.0 overs (ML Hayden 47, RT Ponting 47)
- 2nd Wicket: 100 runs in 100 balls (ML Hayden 43, RT Ponting 48, Ex 9)
- ML Hayden: 50 off 53 balls (5 x 4, 1 x 6)
- RT Ponting: 50 off 53 balls (7 x 4)
- Power Play 2: Overs 23.1 - 28.0
- Australia: 150 runs in 23.4 overs (150 balls), Extras 9
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 35 balls (ML Hayden 28, MJ Clarke 23, Ex 0)
- Australia: 200 runs in 29.4 overs (187 balls), Extras 10
- ML Hayden: 100 off 96 balls (10 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Drinks: Australia - 208/2 in 31.0 overs (ML Hayden 100, MJ Clarke 30)
- Power Play 3: Overs 33.1 - 38.0
- Australia: 250 runs in 38.4 overs (244 balls), Extras 13
- Australia: 300 runs in 47.2 overs (298 balls), Extras 16
- 6th Wicket: 50 runs in 46 balls (MEK Hussey 21, SR Watson 26, Ex 3)
- SR Watson: 50 off 28 balls (4 x 4, 2 x 6)
- New Zealand: 50 runs in 7.3 overs (48 balls), Extras 3
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- Drinks: New Zealand - 80/4 in 12.3 overs (PG Fulton 32)
- New Zealand: 100 runs in 16.3 overs (106 balls), Extras 7
- PG Fulton: 50 off 54 balls (3 x 4)
- Official Attendance - 12,229
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