New Zealand v Australia

[bourny3]

Game played at the Brit Oval with Australia bringing in Shane Watson for Brett Lee.

[bourny3]

score 74/4 Oram 11*, Mcmillan 12*

[bourny3]

Batsmen out
Fleming 29
Astle 18
Marshall 0
Styris 0

[bourny3]

New Zealand 78/4 (21.0 ov)

[bourny3]

Does anyone follow Australian cricket, my favourite player is Shane Watson and i am glad he has replaced Brett Lee

[bourny3]

New Zealand 79/5 (21.3 ov)

21.3 Kasprowicz to Oram, OUT: pitches on good length, tries to whips it
away on the on side, gives a simple catch to Kasprowicz in his
follow through

[bourny3]

JDP Oram c & b Kasprowicz 15 (27b 2x4 0x6)

Cairns is the next man in
I hope McCullum makes a good score he is in after Cairns

[bourny3]

21.4 Kasprowicz to Cairns, OUT: sharp inswinger, hits high on the pad,
huge shout for lbw, Koertzen finger goes up!

Kasprowicz is on a hat trick

[bourny3]

damn didnt get it
New Zealand 80/6 (21.5 ov)

[bourny3]

23.1 Kasprowicz to Harris, no run, pushes it to cover, harris calls for
the single, McMillan responded and sent back by hariis, Symonds
picks up and throw towards Kasprowicz who whips off the bails, no
chance McMillan to come back on time

[bourny3]

New Zealand 90/7 (24.0 ov)

McCullum is in hopefully a big score from him to make a game of it

[Unknown]

Australia are on heat aren't they. I did not think New Zealand would throw away wickets like that. How strange.

[bourny3]

Yes they are playing like Bangladesh

[Unknown]

Goes to show how dominant Australia is in this sport and where the root of their arrogance lies. The bowling just ripped appart the New Zealand batting. Remarkable.

[bourny3]

A bit of a fight back by NZ

New Zealand 124/7 (35.0 ov)

[Unknown]

Their tail enders have some skill with the bat then. Shane Bond can hit a few thats for sure and he is not even at the crease yet.

Edited on, September 16, 2004, 12:01 PM GMT, by Unknown.

[bourny3]

He isnt playing in the game

[Unknown]

Looks like the New Zealand bowling will be a bit frail today. I hope they prove me wrong becuase I loathe Australia.

[Unknown]

ICC Champions Trophy, The Oval: Australia 199-3 beat New Zealand 198-9 by seven wickets

Two seam bowlers with a combined age of 66 restricted New Zealand to just 198 to set up a comprehensive seven-wicket victory for Australia at The Oval.

Aussies ease past Kiwis

[insideedge]

The semifinal line up in the last champions Trophy was:

Australia vs Sri Lanka

India vs South Africa

An identical semifinal line up is possible in this Champions Trophy also

Edited on, September 16, 2004, 4:57 PM GMT, by insideedge.

[James90]

Kyle Mills with a first class batting average of 39 must be the best number 11 in world cricket, without a doubt. With so many batting allrounders in McMillan, Cairns, Styris, Oram, Harris no wonder you get batsmen like McCullum and Mills wasted down the order. Bit like Shane Watson, far too good a batsman to be down at number 8

[Zobair]

Aussies dominated once again. Amazing stuff! Kiwis are by no means a poor ODI team. Just shows how far Aussies are ahead of the pack as far as ODIs are concerned.

[bdmoderator]

Australia win the match quite bit easily.