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Australia vs New Zealand Scorecard, Final, T20 Tri-Series in Australia/New Zealand 2018
Result · Feb 21 2018, Wed - 11:30 AM (IST)
NEW ZEALAND150/9
AUSTRALIA121/3
Australia won by 19 runs (DLS Method)
CRR:8.25
Player Of The Match
Player Of The Series
Match Info
| Series: | Tri-Series in Australia/New Zealand 2018 |
| Date: | Feb 21 2018, Wed - 11:30 AM (IST) |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| City: | Auckland |
| Venue: | Eden Park |
| Toss: | New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat. |
| New Zealand Playing XI: | Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Kane Williamson (c), Mark Chapman, Ross Taylor, Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Seifert (wk), Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Trent Boult |
| Australia Playing XI: | David Warner (c), D'Arcy Short, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Alex Carey (wk), Ashton Agar, Andrew Tye, Kane Richardson, Billy Stanlake |
- This will be the ninth T20I meeting between Australia and New Zealand; the Black Caps have only mustered one win in that time (T1 - NZ won the 1-over eliminator, L5), they lost both previous encounters during this Tri-Series to the Australians.
- In fact, Australia are yet to lose a T20 International to the Black Caps in New Zealand in the regular 40 overs of play (W3, T1 - NZ won the 1-over eliminator).
- Australia have won five games in a row in this form of the game; if they were to claim victory in this outing too, it’ll equal their longest ever winning run in T20I cricket (6 – May 2010).
- New Zealand come into this encounter with Australia at Eden Park having suffered four T20I defeats in a row at the venue; despite posting 243/6 last time out there against Australia, the visitors managed to pull off the highest ever successful T20I run chase.
- Only one T20I (India v Windies, 2016) has ever seen a greater number of match aggregate runs than the previous fixture played out between New Zealand and Australia, which also took place at Eden Park (488).
- This final will be Australia’s 100th T20I; they have won 52 times to date, just two victories behind the Black Caps in this format, despite New Zealand being involved in 11 more outings (including No Results).
- Martin Guptill has recently become the all-time leading T20I runscorer (2250); he’s registered more runs than any other batsman so far in this Tri-Series (237) and he claimed a century in his last appearance versus Australia.
- Guptill has reached 50 in three successive outings for the Black Caps; he has the opportunity to become only the third man ever to record half-centuries in four innings on the bounce in T20I cricket (McCullum, Gayle).
- D'Arcy Short has scored 669 T20 runs so far in 2018 (Australia and Hobart Hurricanes), averaging 60.8 in that time; his 76 off 44 balls was instrumental in Australia’s incredible reply to New Zealand’s 243 last time out.
- Just five of Ashton Agar’s 84 deliveries in this Tri-Series have reached the boundary rope (two 4s & three 6s); a rate of just 6%, a series-low percentage of any bowler.