Friday, February 25, 2011
Australia registers a comfortable win
Australia beat New Zealand by 7 Wickets in World Cup 2011
Match Sumary : Australia 207 for 3 (Watson 62, Haddin 55) beat New Zealand 206 (Nathan 52, Vettori 44, Johnson 4-33, Tait 3-35) by 7 wickets.Shaun Tait. Brett Lee. Mitchell Johnson. The hostile fast men from Australia made an imperious statement in Nagpur. They breathed fire and New Zealand didn’t have the heart, and at least today, the skills, to extinguish them. Nathan McCullum and Daniel Vettori revived New Zealand from a disastrous 73 for 6, but a below-par 206 was not enough to avoid a crushing defeat. A flamboyant Brad Haddin and an imperious Shane Watson hit entertaining half-centuries to charge Australia home.
It was a shambolic effort from the New Zealand top order. Some of the deliveries didn’t deserve wickets but New Zealand were in the mood for self-destruction. They handled the best bowler on view, Lee, with caution and gave him just one wicket but imploded against Tait and Johnson. Both bowlers bowled enough tight deliveries to lure the batsmen into mistakes with deliveries that had some teasing width. It remains to be seen how they will fare against a better batting line-up. Will today’s wicket-taking deliveries be smashed for boundaries or will the batsmen continue to err on perceived pressure-releasing balls? Today, though, their efforts were enough to blow away New Zealand’s top order.
Brendon McCullum, who unfurled couple of fierce upper cuts against Tait, threw his bat at a full delivery well outside off, but edged it to third man. Jesse Ryder, who laced a few classy pulls against Johnson, stabbed a delivery that held its line outside off, to the wicketkeeper. James Franklin, looking out of place at No. 5, chased a wide delivery from Johnson to give Brad Haddin another catch. Scott Styris edged a wide and short delivery from Tait to Haddin and Ross Taylor played all around a full delivery from Tait to lose his off stump.
Everything that one expected from this Australian pace attack was visible today. It was expected they would either blow away the opposition or leak runs on flat tracks. Eleven fours came in the first 12 overs but the wickets too kept tumbling. Lee strangled the batsmen with his nagging line and length, Tait slung them in full and fast, Johnson went round-arm to catapult pacy deliveries and Watson was accurate enough to let the vagaries of the up-and-down track to do its bit.
Aus vs NZ ICC world cup 2011 match live
Australia vs New Zealand Cricket Highlights – ICC World Cup 2011
Date: 25 February 2011 Time: 04:00 GMTVenue: Nagpur, India
Australia are coming into this match on the back of win against Zimbabwe couple of days ago, it was a match where every one expected that Australia will crush the Zimbabwe team but that did not happen and although they won the match they were not in total control as Ponting would want them to be. Good news for them is Mitchel Johnson is back in form and getting wickets as he racked up 4 wickets in this match while Watson continued his great run of form with the bat when he gave australia a good start with a well batted 79 runs to his name.
On the other hand we have always underdogs, New Zealand side who won their first match against kenya with real ease, as they hammered them in the match with bowl and bad, New Zealand bowled them out for jsut 69 runs and went on to win the match by 10 wickets and stamp their authority in theWorld Cup 2011.
Australia Defeated New Zealand by 7 Wickets in World Cup 2011 Match
Match results and Highlights
New Zealand: 206 (45.1 ov)
Australia: 207/3 (34.0 ov)
Australia won by 7 wickets (with 96 balls remaining)
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