Cool Taylor steers New Zealand to tight victory
New Zealand had to wait until the last delivery to hand Australia their fourth loss in a row
01/31Result
1st ODI (D/N), New Zealand tour of Australia at Perth, Feb 1 2009
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![Australia]( "Australia")
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![New Zealand]( "New Zealand")
182/8 (50 ov)
Player of the Match
01/31Result
1st ODI (D/N), New Zealand tour of Australia at Perth, Feb 1 2009
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![Australia]( "Australia")
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![New Zealand]( "New Zealand")
182/8 (50 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
LRPL Taylor
64(97) 6x4 - 1x6
Control %84%
- Productive Shot
- leg glance
- 22 runs
- 2x4 - 1x6
Match Details
Toss
Australia , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
New Zealand led the 5-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
13.30 start, First Session 13.30-17.00 Interval 17.00-17.45, Second Session 17.45-21.15
Match days
01 February 2009 - day/night match (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Match Referee
Scorecard Summary
AUSTRALIA 181 (48.4 OVERS)
- Brad Haddin31 (54)
- Michael Hussey49 (65)
- Kyle Mills4/35 (9.4)
- Iain O'Brien2/43 (10)
NEW ZEALAND 182/8 (50 OVERS)
- Neil Broom29 (50)
- Ross Taylor64 (97)
- Nathan Bracken3/35 (10)
- Shaun Tait2/40 (10)
END OF OVER:50 | 5 Runs 1 Wkt | NZ: 182/8 | RR: 3.64
- Daniel Vettori7 (9b)
- Jeetan Patel2 (2b)
- Nathan Bracken10-3-35-3
- Shaun Tait10-1-40-2
9.50 pm: What a superb low-scoring thriller at the WACA. New Zealand pip Australia by two wickets off the last ball. They'll be mighty thrilled with the effort but it should have never got this close.
Kyle Mills is the Player of the Match for taking four wickets and then scoring 26 runs just when the chase got really tense. The next game is on Friday at the MCG, do join us for that. Thank you for your emails, on behalf of today's commentary team (Jamie, Sid R, and Kanishkaa) this is George Binoy signing off. Good night!
49.6
1
Bracken to Vettori, 1 run, he's done it! Vettori's hit the winning run! Bracken bowls a full ball outside off stump, he was looking for the yorker no doubt.Vettori loves width outside off, he loves the cut, and he places the ball through backward point and yells in triumph
The field comes in, Patel gets rid of his helmet, and his gloves. He wants to feel as light as possible.
49.5
1
Bracken to Patel, 1 run, just opens the face of the bat and steers it to short third man, New Zealand can't lose now, the scores are level
There's never been a tie between these two sides in ODIs
49.4
1
Bracken to Vettori, 1 run, fires in the yorker and he gets underneath a low full toss and works it away to deep square leg
49.3
1
Bracken to Patel, 1 run, gets forward and steers it down to backward point and the batsmen are struggling, the fielder has a shy at the bowler';s stumps and Patel is nowhere in the scene
Jeetan Patel walks in.
49.2
W
Bracken to Southee, OUT, timber! Bracken bowls that deadly off cutter and Southee fails to pick the slower ball, he exposes his leg stump and tries to heave it away over square leg as the ball thuds on to his middle stump
TG Southee b Bracken 3 (11m 6b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50.00
4 to get off 5, Southee on strike, the keeper is standing behind
49.1
1
Bracken to Vettori, 1 run, fires that on the blockhole and he pushes it firmly through the line to long-on
5 to get off 6 balls, tension!
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