Aust v NZ Semi.

[MightyEagles]

Tonight, the battle between the tran tasmin rivals.
Should be a good game.

[dinglinga]

wonder how former SANFL boundary umpire and prospect CC Lou Vincent

will go tonight......

[blink]

He might go OK - NZ need him to. They always seem to leave everything up to Stephen Flemming - when he fails, so do NZ.

Look for Vettori taking a few wickets tonight, pitch should suit him well.

[Jimmy]

wonder how former SANFL boundary umpire and prospect CC Lou Vincent

will go tonight......

his career seemed to mirror that of clarke....flash in the pan

[whufc]

Australia in early trouble batting first Watson and Gilchrist both out to very lame shots leaving us 2/4 after three overs

[whufc]

australia now 2/36 after ten over Ponting and Martyn in

[sydney-dog]

Watson and Gilly

soft back yard cricket dismissals, very disappointing

[whufc]

it seems like a trait of Watson's he either hits runs or gets out really really soft. Needs more consisentcy in his batting even if that doesn't equate to consistent runs.

[sydney-dog]

Ricky, looked fantasic tonight but once again another soft dismissal for the Aussies

On Watson, happy to play him down the order but he does not have the decision making to open the innings

[scoob]

Cmon lads. if hussey and symmo can hang around! look out! cmon!!!

[mal]

240 would be a easy task for NZ but this pitch is offering
some assistance to the bowlers.
Maybe the aussies in a thriller.
How does Johnson bat in front of Bracken?

[sydney-dog]

9/ 240

competitive total under those conditions, new ball will be crucial

would of liked another 15-20 runs, we fell away a bit in the last ten overs, only 2 boundaries in the last 10 overs

my prediction, Aussies by 17 runs

[Jimmy]

win or lose???

[Jimmy]

Australia 240/9 (50 ov)
New Zealand 194/9 (44.0 ov)

we should roll them now

[Jimmy]

we win

all out 206

[Ian]

Australia innings
AC Gilchrist c Oram b Mills 3
SR Watson c Fulton b Mills 0
RT Ponting c Vettori b Mills 58
DR Martyn lbw b Vettori 26
MEK Hussey c Marshall b Franklin 35
A Symonds b Bond 58
MJ Clarke c Vettori b Mills 14
B Lee b Bond 5
MG Johnson run out (Bond) 3
NW Bracken not out 15
GD McGrath not out 0
Extras (lb 6, w 14, nb 3) 23

Total (9 wickets; 50 overs) 240


Fall of wickets 1-3 (Watson, 2.2 ov), 2-4 (Gilchrist, 2.5 ov), 3-70 (Martyn, 19.3 ov), 4-123 (Ponting, 28.6 ov), 5-188 (Hussey, 40.1 ov), 6-211 (Symonds, 45.4 ov), 7-220 (Clarke, 46.5 ov), 8-223 (Lee, 47.2 ov), 9-236 (Johnson, 49.5 ov)



Bowling O M R W Econ
KD Mills 10 1 38 4 3.80 (1w)
SE Bond 10 0 55 2 5.50 (6w)
JEC Franklin 8 1 48 1 6.00 (2nb, 2w)
JDP Oram 10 1 43 0 4.30 (1nb)
DL Vettori 10 0 41 1 4.10
NJ Astle 2 0 9 0 4.50



New Zealand innings
L Vincent c Ponting b McGrath 1
SP Fleming c Ponting b Bracken 15
NJ Astle b Lee 0
HJH Marshall c Gilchrist b McGrath 5
PG Fulton b McGrath 2
JDP Oram st Gilchrist b Symonds 43
BB McCullum c Martyn b Bracken 1
DL Vettori b Johnson 79
JEC Franklin c Gilchrist b Watson 8
KD Mills c Gilchrist b Lee 21
SE Bond not out 9
Extras (lb 7, w 13, nb 2) 22

Total (all out; 46 overs) 206


Fall of wickets 1-16 (Vincent, 5.3 ov), 2-20 (Astle, 6.2 ov), 3-30 (Marshall, 9.2 ov), 4-30 (Fleming, 10.4 ov), 5-34 (Fulton, 13.4 ov), 6-35 (McCullum, 14.2 ov), 7-138 (Oram, 35.1 ov), 8-159 (Franklin, 38.6 ov), 9-180 (Vettori, 42.4 ov), 10-206 (Mills, 45.6 ov)



Bowling O M R W Econ
B Lee 8 0 31 2 3.87 (1nb, 5w)
GD McGrath 10 2 22 3 2.20 (2w)
NW Bracken 7 1 36 2 5.14 (3w)
MG Johnson 7 0 38 1 5.42 (1nb, 2w)
SR Watson 7 0 27 1 3.85
A Symonds 7 0 45 1 6.42

[Jimmy]

the side that played this game...is this a full strength one day side?? any injuries or anything??

if so, can this team go back to back to back???

[blink]

There is still one thing missing from the current Australian side - SK Warne.

If he was in there, we would rarely lose an ODI, I think. Unfortunatley his time for a push for the World Cup looks to be over.

[Dissident]

Good game.

I enjoyed watching the Australian innings, seeing us lose two quick ones and have to rebuild. Enjoyed watching Fleming's captaining (he's good, but christ, stop raving about him please) wondering what to do with the field, and Franklin.

Commentators said some silly things. When Hussey lost his wicket Bob Willis said "Franklin deceived him with pace". Umm, the ball was on the "wide" line and money for jam. Hussey muffed it up.

Ponting and Symonds really played well.

The Kiwis didn't bowl that well to be honest. I can't remember all of the wickets, but I'll list the ones that were with "wicket balls" :



None. All the batsmen got themselves out really. mind you, it is ODI cricket - a batsmans game.

[MightyEagles]

Bring on the winner of tonights game.