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Australia vs New Zealand, 47th Match, Super Eights at St George's, , Apr 20 2007 - Ball by Ball Commentary

RESULT
47th Match, Super Eights, St George's, April 20, 2007, ICC World Cup
(25.5/50 ov, T:349) 133

Australia won by 215 runs

Player Of The Match
103 (100)
matthew-hayden
New
NZ
Full commentary

Walloped!

Australian fielders huddle together in celebration. This is their 21st consecutive win in World Cups. Australia win by 215 runs. Massive. This is New Zealand's biggest defeat in ODIs.

Man-of-the-Match Matthew Hayden

This is Sriram Veera, your commentator for the day, signing off. Adios.

25.5
W
Hogg to Fulton, OUT

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.

Peter Fulton b Hogg 62 (72b 5x4 0x6 127m) SR: 86.11
25.4
Hogg to Fulton, no run

on the middle and leg, turned to square-leg

25.3
Hogg to Fulton, no run

leans forward, pushes to cover

Harry in South Africa: "Agree with Denver Kiwi. Cape Town Kiwi here reckons these midweek cricket games between rugby World Cups are great scraps, for puppies :). Alto ugh that Hayden chap could brute his way into the Wallaby squad come September." Ha!

25.2
Hogg to Fulton, no run

defended back to Hogg

25.1
Hogg to Fulton, no run

full and on the stumps, pushed to cover

end of over 251 run • 1 wicket
NZ: 133/9CRR: 5.32 RRR: 8.64
Jeetan Patel0 (1b)
Peter Fulton62 (67b 5x4)
Shaun Tait 6-0-32-3
Brad Hogg 6-1-29-3
24.6
Tait to Patel, no run

full in length, outside stump, driven to the off side

24.5
W
Tait to Mason, OUT

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.

Michael Mason c †Gilchrist b Tait 0 (5b 0x4 0x6 6m) SR: 0

Harshdeep throws in this stat: "In case you don't know, Australia today became most ODI matches playing country beating Pakistan's record of 656 ODI's. This is Australia's 657th ODI."

24.4
Tait to Mason, no run

from wide of the crease, on the middle, turned towards midwicket.

24.3
Tait to Mason, no run

fuller, on the off stump line, cuts in, driven to mid-off

24.3
1w
Tait to Mason, 1 wide

banged in short but it sails down leg side

Ameera, from T&T, writes in: "... when Australia's playing, I hear that song from Men at Work in my head "they come from the land down under... can't you hear the thunder? You better run, and take cover." They should adopt it as their theme song, and everytime Hayden walks out to bat, they should be playing it."

24.2
Tait to Mason, no run

off cutter, on the off and middle, defended back to the bowler

24.1
Tait to Mason, no run

full, 138.7 kph, on the off and middle, dug out back to the bowler

end of over 248 runs • 1 wicket
NZ: 132/8CRR: 5.50 RRR: 8.34
Peter Fulton62 (67b 5x4)
Michael Mason0 (0b)
Brad Hogg 6-1-29-3
Shane Watson 5-0-20-1
23.6
4
Hogg to Fulton, FOUR runs

slightly short, on the middle and leg, Fulton pulls, in the air, past square-leg. Catch it was Gilchrist's call ..... er... can we get the opposition get a few boundaries at least?

23.6
1w
Hogg to Fulton, 1 wide

down the leg side, spins away, Fulton lets it go past him. Wide called.

23.5
W
Hogg to Gillespie, OUT

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.

Mark Gillespie c McGrath b Hogg 2 (8b 0x4 0x6 9m) SR: 25
23.4
1
Hogg to Fulton, 1 run

shortish, on the leg and middle, lapped around the corner, behind square-leg

23.3
Hogg to Fulton, no run

fuller, on the off stump line, flicked to the on side

23.2
1
Hogg to Gillespie, 1 run

on the middle and leg, clipped to behind square-leg

23.1
1
Hogg to Fulton, 1 run

spins in from outside off, Fulton goes back, waits for the turn, tucks it behind square-leg

end of over 237 runs
NZ: 124/7CRR: 5.39 RRR: 8.33
Peter Fulton56 (63b 4x4)
Mark Gillespie1 (6b)
Shane Watson 5-0-20-1
Brad Hogg 5-1-21-2

Mark, our kiwi in denver is back:" Ok, this Kiwi in Denver suddenly remembers he can't go to any bars today...um, work stuff... but how about September for the rugby world cup?"

Good one! Well done us!

22.6
1
Watson to Fulton, 1 run

on the middle and off, turned to right of mid-on where Hogg makes the stop and fires in an throw at non-striker's end. Misses.

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Super Eights
TEAMMWLPTNRR
AUS770142.400
SL752101.483
NZ752100.253
SA74380.313
ENG7346-0.394
WI7254-0.566
BAN7162-1.514
IRE7162-1.730
Group A
TEAMMWLPTNRR
AUS33063.433
SA32142.403
NED3122-2.527
SCOT3030-3.793
Group B
TEAMMWLPTNRR
SL33063.493
BAN3214-1.523
IND31221.206
BER3030-4.345
Group C
TEAMMWLPTNRR
NZ33062.138
ENG32140.418
KENYA3122-1.194
CAN3030-1.389
Group D
TEAMMWLPTNRR
WI33060.764
IRE3113-0.092
PAK31220.089
ZIM3021-0.886