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Competition: Win 2 brand new cricket balls.

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Anybody from Bangalore?

I'm trying to build a sort of profile/document on cricket around the world and how the locals feel. I put some place names in ahat and Bangalore came out. So, if you're from Bangalore and would like to let me know about hoe people in Bangalore feel about cricket, if you've ever been to a match in Bangalore, what the local leagues are like. Is there a statewide competition in Karnataka? If so, what's it like? All comments will be greatly appreciated.

Chappell-Hadlee Series Game 3 - Run Chase

New Zealand 7/287 60 runs required off 41 balls.

NZ win by 1 wicket with 3 balls to spare and Australia now has conceded the top 4 unsucessful defended scores in ODI history. The win was setup by a brilliant century by Mcmillian who brought up his 100 from just 67 balls.

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Top 5 scores by an Australian in a One Day International

Today Matthew Hayden smashed his way to the highest score in an ODI by an Australian. Let's take a look at the top 5 scores by an Aussie in ODI history.

1. Matthew Hayden 181* (166 balls) Vs NZ 2007/07 Scorecard
2. Mark Waugh 173 (148 balls) Vs WI 2000/01 Scorecard
3. Adam Gilchrist 172 (126 balls) Vs ZIM 2003/04 Scorecard
4. Ricky Ponting 164 (105 balls) Vs SA 2005/06 Scorecard
5. Andrew Symonds 156 (127 balls) Vs NZ 2005/06 Scorecard

Chappell-Hadlee Series Game 3

Mathew Hayden has blasted the highest score by an Australian in ODI history to lead Australia to 5/346 off their 50 overs in the 3rd and final match of the chappell-hadlee series.
All kinds of records tumbled as Hayden carried his bat to finsih 181 not out. He eclipsed Mark Waugh's 173 in the 2001/01 series to register the highest score by an Australian in ODI history.

Before today the highest by a player from any country in a one-dayer in NZ was 156 by Andrew Symond last year in the Chappell-Hadlee series.

Hayden hit 10 sixes to break the record for most sixes in an innings by an Australian which was 9, set by Ponting last year in that 430 odd score against South Africa. Hayden now sits in 8th place on the all-time list for highest individual score in ODIs.

Hayden's 181 came off just 166 balls with 11 fours and 10 sixes.
Watson chipped in with 68 off 69 balls as the openers put on 122 for the first wicket in 25 overs.

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World Cup Betting - Where to get the best prices.

As with most tournaments with various countries you will find that if a country's team has a realistic chance of winning it their odds will be a lot shorter in their own country than in other countries. Take for example, Australia. In Australia the best price you will get for the Aussie team winning the world cup is about $2.90 for a $1 bet. Most if not all bookies in Aus have them at $2.85 or $2.90. You can get juicy prices of around $9 for England, India and Sri Lanka. I will list selected countries (starting with Australia, more will come in the next few days) and the best prices I can find for each country in those countries. (I've only checked a few for each as they will all be similar. If you find better prices or even run a betting site and you have better prices let me know by leaving a comment and a link.)
Australia
Australia - $2.90 Sportingbet
South Africa - $5.25 Sportsbook
Pakistan - $10 Sportsbook
New Zealand - $9 All of them except Sportingbet
India - Sportsbet and TAB Sportsbet
Sri Lanka - Sportsbet
England - $9.50 Sportsbook
West Indies - $8.50 Sportsbet and Sportsbook
Bangladesh - $251 - All except sportsbook
Zimbabwe - $501 All except sportsbook
Kenya - $601 Sportsbook
Bermuda, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Holland - $2,501 Sportsbet

Highest run chases of all -time

UPDATE: 5th November 2009 - CLICK HERE to see the highest successful run chases in India.


UPDATE: 2 days after this post was posted NZ chased down 347 agaisnt Australia to add themselves to 2nd place again and bump their old high score down to third place. All the others also move down 1 place and the 7/316 Indis scored against Pakistan at Dhaka in 97/98( Scorecard) moves out of the top 10.

Having failed to defend 5/336, Australia now has the unwanted record of the top 3 highest scores unsuccessfully defended. The worrying thing is these have all come in the last 12 months.

Stand-in skipper Michael Hussey isn't worried about this fact or the team's form coming into the world cup which starts next month "We can't afford to panic, we can't afford to start making wholesales changes or anything like that," said Hussey "I know big totals being chased down is an area of concern and we're going to have to get better at it, but I still think we've got the right people in the team and in the squad."

The list of the top 10 totals batting second in ODI history.

1. 9/438 SA v AUS Johannesburg 05/06 Scorecard
2. 9/350 NZ v AUS Hamilton 06/07 Scorecard
3. 5/337 NZ v AUS Auckland 06/07 Scorecard
4. 8/332 NZ v AUS Chirstchurch 05/06 Scorecard
5. 7/330 AUS v SA Port Elizabeth 01/02 Scorecard
6. 8/326 IND v ENG Lord's 02 Scorecard
7. 5/325 IND v WI Ahmedabad 02/03 Scorecard
8. 2/324 SRL v ENG Leeds 06 Scorecard
9. 7/319 PAK v IND Ahmedabad 04/05 Scorecard
10. 4/316 AUS v PAK Lahore 98/99 Scorecard

Australia lose 2nd Chappelll-Hadlee trophy match.

They also have lost their number 1 spot one-day spot on the ICC rankings.

Stephen Fleming won the toss and chose to field. Australia got off to a slow start and when departed for 24 Australia were 2/52 off 12.2 overs. After the way Australia has been playing lately there could have been a collapse but Hussey was on a mission. He put on 70 for the 3rd wicket with Haddin (489 off 61) in just 13 overs. Hussey and Hodge then put on 130 in 17 overs to take Australia to 4/252 off 42.3, Hussey out for 105 off just 84 balls with 8 fours and 6 sixes. Hodge once again ran out of balls falling just short of his maiden one day century finishing on 97 not out off 86 balls. He and Cameron White blasting their way to an unbeaten partnership of 84 off just 45 balls. Australia finished on 4/336.

New Zealand, led by a century to Taylor which included 16 fours chased the runs down with 8 balls and 5 wickets remaining.

NZ smash Australia by 10 wickets.

New zealand has hammered Australia by 10 wickets in the first Chappell-Hadlee Trophy match at Wellington. Set just 149 runs to win NZ got the runs easily, sealing victory after just 27 overs. Earlier, NZ won the toss and chose to field. None of the Australian batsmen ever got in and Hussey top scoring with 42 off 96 balls summed up how the Australians were playing. Australia now has to win or draw the 2nd match to retain their place at the top of the ICC One Day rankings although the way they have the last 5 or so matches, they don't deserve it.

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Domestic Tables

Ford Ranger One Day Cup

Team	Mt	Pts	NRR
QLD	10	26	0.081
VIC	9	26	0.348
WA	10	22	0.322
TAS	8	17	-0.203
SA	9	17	-0.146
NSW	10	13	-0.445

Pura Cup

Team	Mt	Pts	Qt
NSW	8	26	1.036
VIC	7	24	1.352
WA	8	22	1.232
QLD	8	20	0.942
TAS	7	20	0.863
SA	8	6	0.743

World Cup Squads

Australia

1.	RT Ponting (captain)
2.	NW Bracken
3.	MJ Clarke
4.	AC Gilchrist (wicketkeeper)
5.	BJ Haddin (wicketkeeper)
6.	ML Hayden
7.	BJ Hodge
8.	GB Hogg
9.	MEK Hussey
10.	MG Johnson
11.	B Lee
12.	GD McGrath
13.	A Symonds
14.	SW Tait
15.	SR Watson

Bangladesh

1.	Habibul Bashar (captain)
2.	Shahriar Nafees (vice-captain)
3.	Abdur Razzak
4.	Aftab Ahmed
5.	Javed Omar
6.	Mashrafe Mortaza
7.	Mohammad Ashraful
8.	Mohammad Rafique
9.	Mushfiqur Rahim (wicketkeeper)
10.	Rajin Saleh
11.	Saqibul Hasan
12.	Shahadat Hossain
13.	Syed Rasel
14.	Tamim Iqbal
15.	Tapash Baisya

Canada

1.	JM Davison (captain)
2.	KT Sandher
3.	DR Chumney
4.	A Bagai (wicketkeeper) - vice-captain
5.	GEF Barnett
6.	U Bhatti
7.	IS Billcliff
8.	A Codrington
9.	GR Codrington
10.	AC Cummins
11.	S Dhaniram
12.	AA Mulla (wicketkeeper)
13.	H Osinde
14.	Qaiser Ali
15.	AM Samad

England

1.	MP Vaughan (captain)
2.	JM Anderson
3.	IR Bell
4.	RS Bopara
5.	PD Collingwood
6.	JWM Dalrymple
7.	A Flintoff
8.	EC Joyce
9.	J Lewis
10.	SI Mahmood
11.	PA Nixon (wicketkeeper)
12.	MS Panesar
13.	KP Pietersen
14.	LE Plunkett
15.	AJ Strauss

India

1.	R Dravid (captain)
2.	SR Tendulkar (vice-captain)
3.	AB Agarkar
4.	MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper)
5.	SC Ganguly
6.	Harbhajan Singh
7.	KD Karthik (wicketkeeper)
8.	Z Khan
9.	A Kumble
10.	MM Patel
11.	IK Pathan
12.	V Sehwag
13.	S Sreesanth
14.	AR Uthappa
15.	Yuvraj Singh

Ireland

1.	DT Johnston (captain)
2.	WK McCallan (vice-captain)
3.	AC Botha
4.	JP Bray
5.	KED Carroll
6.	PG Gillespie
7.	D Langford-Smith
8.	JF Mooney
9.	PJK Mooney
10.	EJG Morgan
11.	KJ O'Brien
12.	NJ O'Brien (wicketkeeper)
13.	WTS Porterfield
14.	WB Rankin
15.	AR White

Kenya

1.	SO Tikolo (captain)
2.	TM Odoyo (vice-captain)
3.	R Bhudia
4.	JK Kamande
5.	T Mishra
6.	CO Obuya
7.	DO Obuya
8.	N Odhiambo
9.	PJ Ongondo
10.	LN Onyango
11.	MA Ouma (wicketkeeper)
12.	ML Patel
13.	RD Shah
14.	AO Suji
15.	HA Varaiya

Netherlands

1.	LP van Troost (captain)
2.	B Zuiderent
3.	Adeel Raja
4.	PW Borren
5.	TBM de Leede
6.	MBS Jonkman
7.	AN Kervezee
8.	Mohammad Kashif
9.	DJ Reekers
10.	E Schiferli
11.	J Smits (wicketkeeper)
12.	WF Stelling
13.	ES Szwarczynski
14.	RN ten Doeschate
15.	DLS van Bunge

New Zealand

1.	SP Fleming (captain)
2.	SE Bond
3.	JEC Franklin
4.	PG Fulton
5.	MR Gillespie
6.	BB McCullum (wicketkeeper)
7.	CD McMillan
8.	MJ Mason
9.	JDP Oram
10.	JS Patel
11.	SB Styris
12.	RL Taylor
13.	DR Tuffey
14.	DL Vettori
15.	L Vincent

Pakistan

1.	Inzamam-ul-Haq (captain)
2.	Younis Khan (vice-captain)
3.	Abdul Razzaq
4.	Danish Kaneria
5.	Iftikhar Anjum
6.	Imran Nazir
7.	Kamran Akmal (wicketkeeper)
8.	Mohammad Asif
9.	Mohammad Hafeez
10.	Mohammad Yousuf
11.	Naved-ul-Hasan
12.	Shahid Afridi
13.	Shoaib Akhtar
14.	Shoaib Malik
15.	Umar Gul

Scotland

1.	CM Wright (captain)
2.	RR Watson (vice-captain)
3.	JAR Blain
4.	DR Brown
5.	GM Hamilton
6.	RM Haq
7.	PJC Hoffmann
8.	DR Lockhart
9.	RT Lyons
10.	NFI McCallum
11.	JD Nel
12.	NS Poonia
13.	GA Rogers
14.	CJO Smith (wicketkeeper)
15.	DF Watts

South Africa (15 to be omitted)

1.	GC Smith (captain)
2.	LL Bosman
3.	J Botha
4.	MV Boucher (wicketkeeper)
5.	AB de Villiers
6.	HH Dippenaar
7.	JP Duminy
8.	HH Gibbs
9.	AJ Hall
10.	PL Harris
11.	JH Kallis
12.	JM Kemp
13.	GJP Kruger
14.	CK Langeveldt
15.	JA Morkel
16.	A Nel
17.	M Ntini
18.	JL Ontong
19.	AN Petersen
20.	RJ Peterson
21.	VD Philander
22.	SM Pollock
23.	AG Prince
24.	JA Rudolph
25.	DW Steyn
26.	R Telemachus
27.	AC Thomas
28.	T Tshabalala
29.	JJ van der Wath
30.	MN van Wyk (wicketkeeper)

Sri Lanka

1.	DPMD Jayawardene (captain)
2.	RP Arnold
3.	MS Atapattu
4.	CM Bandara
5.	TM Dilshan
6.	CRD Fernando
7.	ST Jayasuriya
8.	KMDN Kulasekara
9.	MF Maharoof
10.	SL Malinga
11.	M Muralitharan
12.	KC Sangakkara (wicketkeeper)
13.	LPC Silva
14.	WU Tharanga
15.	WPUJC Vaas

West Indies (15 to be omitted)

1.	BC Lara (captain)
2.	OAC Banks
3.	CS Baugh (wicketkeeper)
4.	IDR Bradshaw
5.	DJ Bravo
6.	PA Browne (wicketkeeper)
7.	S Chanderpaul
8.	CD Collymore
9.	N Deonarine
10.	TM Dowlin
11.	FH Edwards
12.	RR Emrit
13.	CH Gayle
14.	RO Hinds
15.	WW Hinds
16.	SC Joseph
17.	RN Lewis
18.	D Mohammed
19.	RS Morton
20.	KA Pollard
21.	DB Powell
22.	D Ramdin (wicketkeeper)
23.	DJG Sammy
24.	MN Samuels
25.	RR Sarwan
26.	LMP Simmons
27.	DR Smith
28.	DS Smith
29.	JE Taylor
30.	GC Tonge

Zimbabwe (15 to be omitted)

1.	P Utseya (captain)
2.	TMK Mawoyo
3.	GB Brent
4.	CJ Chibhabha
5.	E Chigumbura
6.	T Chisoro
7.	CK Coventry
8.	AG Cremer
9.	KM Dabengwa
10.	T Duffin
11.	TN Garwe
12.	RS Higgins
13.	T Hove
14.	AJ Ireland
15.	T Kamungozi
16.	F Kasteni
17.	NB Mahwire
18.	T Maruma
19.	H Masakadza
20.	S Matsikenyeri
21.	CB Mpofu
22.	TV Mufambisi (wicketkeeper)
23.	T Mupariwa
24.	ML Nkala
25.	EC Rainsford
26.	HP Rinke
27.	V Sibanda
28.	GM Strydom
29.	BRM Taylor (wicketkeeper)
30.	SC Williams

Selectors wake up "sleeper" Haddin.

IT was when Australia returned from last year's revenue-raising tri-series in Malaysia that strong whispers about Brad Haddin's international claims began spreading.

The powerful 29 year old played that tournament against India and West Indies when Adam Gilchrist was rested, and was his team's leading run-scorer.

It is understood that his captain, Ricky Ponting, later proclaimed Haddin was better than any other Australia batsman in that series and that list included Ponting, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, Damien Martyn and Andrew Symonds.

So while his inclusion in Australia's 15-man World Cup squad surprised many - he has not played an international match since that Kuala Lumpur outing last September - Haddin has long been on the selectors' minds.

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Tait can't wait to burn rivals.

FAST-bowling menace Shaun Tait wants to "shake up and roll" opposition batsmen in a World Cup strike force with Australia teammate Brett Lee.

The imposing Adelaide Hills boy pipped New South Wales seamer Stuart Clark for the final pace berth in Australia's 15-man squad announced yesterday for cricket's Caribbean showcase.

Tait, 23, vowed to use the speed that sealed his spot to prove his limited-overs credentials and terrorise opposition.

"I will try to shake them up. It's the same attitude Brett Lee has," Tait said.

"You have one or two bowlers who can run in and stir the pot a bit with the new ball.

"I suppose I add something different, which was probably the attraction.

"I like hanging around with Brett, we talk about bowling fast together. It would be great to steam in with him."

Tait aims to exploit an ability to gain reverse swing on slow, dry West Indies pitches and become the "Dr Death" of the Aussie attack.

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South Africa smash Pakistan by 10 wickets.

South Africa 113-0 (Smith 56*, de Villiers 50*)Pollock 2-13, Kemp 2-9) beat Pakistan 107 all out (Inzamam 45*, Pollock 2-13) by 10 wickets
Shaun Pollock, supported by an assembly line of bristling seamers, set Pakistan up for the kill, before South Africa's openers finished it with a lack of mercy that Jack the Ripper would've shivered at. Pakistan were trounced, ultimately, by ten wickets with 36 overs to spare at Cape Town, South Africa taking a 2-1 series lead with one match left to play.

As with the series opening result at Centurion, numbers couldn't fully convey the carnage. In the end, as Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers rained down a glut of boundaries, it seemed as if the Twenty20 game that started this series with the same result and manner was being replayed.

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Sri Lanka edge home by 5 runs.

Sri Lanka 257 for 8 (Sangakkara 110, Dilshan 56) beat India 252 for 9 (Ganguly 62*, Tendulkar 54) by 5 runs

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Over-reaction to Australia's loss

The usual over-reaction when Australia loses at a sport they normally dominate. If Australia wins 3-0 or 2-1 in the Chappell-Hadlee series eveybody will forget about the CB series and carry on about how unbeatable Australia is. The same over-reaction, the sky is falling comments and crucifixion of the selectors happened when Australia lost the rugby league tri-series in 2005 but they bounced back beautifully in 2006 and only lost 1 game.

CB Series final points table and selected stats.

Points Table

Team	P	W	L	NR	T	BP	Points	NRR	For	Against
Australia	8	7	1	-	-	3	31	+0.667	1860 / 355.3	1826 / 400
England	8	3	5	-	-	1	13	-0.608	1655 / 399.5	1702 / 358.3
New Zealand	8	2	6	-	-	1	9	-0.007	2016 / 400	2003 / 396.5

Finals
England won 2-0

Batting Stats
(These stats will feature more players from Australia and England than New Zealand and Aus and Eng played 2 extra games.)

Highest Average (Minimum 100 runs)
Name Inn NO Runs HS Avg
Oram 5 2 261 101* 87.60
Ponting 8 2 445 111 74.16
Collingwood 9 1 379 120 47.37
Hayden 10 1 387 117 43
Hodge 5 1 154 99* 38.50

Most Runs
Ponting 445
Hayden 387
Collingwood 378
Bell 292
Joyce 288
Taylor 282
Highest Strike Rates (minimum 4 innings)
Oram 124.28
Plunkett 109.43
Hodge 101.98
Gilchrist 95.27
Ponting 87.25
Flintoff 85.41

Highest Scores (clicking name/score will open the match scorecards)
Collingwood 120*
Hayden 117
Ponting 111
Joyce 107
Collingwood 106
Fleming 106
Ponting 104
Oram 10
Hodge 99*

Bowling Stats
Most wickets
Name M O W
McGrath 7 68 13
Plunkett 6 49. 5 12
Lee 7 68 12
Bracken 8 71.1 12
Flintoff 10 81.1 12
Bond 6 56.5 11
Best Averages(minimum 20 overs)
Anderson 20.62
Plunkett 23
McGrath 23.26
McMillan 24.24
Johnson 26
Best bowling in an innings
Flintoff 4/21
Vettori 4/24
Lewis 4/36
Anderson 4/42
Johnson 4/45
Bond 4/46

England win the CB series.

One of the most unexpected series wins of all-time has been achieved by England. Paying $41 for a $1 bet a few weeks ago after people bowled out for 110, they have bounced back superbly and will now lift the CB series trophy. At the time of writing Australia still has a minute chance of winning the 2nd final but looking at the radar the rain won't stop in time.
Congratulations must go to England who were down and out and less popular than a Sheik Al-Hilaly at Cronulla beach on Australia Day about a week and a half ago. They will gain a tremendous amount of confidence coming up to the World Cup and the Australian selectors will have a huge task of getting the team right.

Selectors in pace predicament.

SHAUN Tait and Stuart Clark have become the centre of a selection room shootout for the prized final pace place in Australia's World Cup squad.

Neither has a chance to advance their cause because the squad will be chosen on Thursday before Australia's next match on Friday, the first limited-overs tri-series final.

Tait's sizzling form on Sunday, when he pushed the speedometer to near-world record 160kph against New Zealand, has put him in firm contention for the fifth and final pace place in Australia's 15-man squad.

One, but not both Tait and Clark, will be chosen.

Glenn McGrath, Nathan Bracken and Brett Lee are certainties while Mitchell Johnson is considered just ahead of Tait and Clark.

It is an agonising choice for the panel, which feels deeply indebted to Clark for his stunning Test form which carried Australia to recent series wins against South Africa and England.

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Neilsen ready to dig in.

WHERE Australia's incumbent coach John Buchanan often employed corporate jargon and motivational tools to achieve results, his replacement is very much the cricketer's coach.

Tim Nielsen played more than 100 first-class matches for South Australia as a wicketkeeper-batsman; Buchanan made just seven appearances for Queensland.

While Buchanan is most comfortable at his laptop or with a video recording device in his hand, Nielsen is regularly spied chatting with his charges over a beer and cigarette.

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CB Series Game 11: Australia Vs New Zealand

New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat on a good MCG pitch. Australia is without Andrew Symonds who recieved surgery on his injured bicep this morning and is in doubt for the world cup. Hodges keeps his place in the team and Ponting returns.

New Zealnd batted well and scored 290 runs from their 50 overs. It will be a tough chase for Australia

Australia won by 5 wickets with 10 balls to spare thanks largely to the brilliant batting of Ponting 104 and Hodge 99* who looks as though he has booked his ticket to the world cup.

New Zealand innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	L Vincent	b Tait	90	160	113	6	1	79.64
	SP Fleming	c Hussey b Lee	9	14	11	1	0	81.81
	PG Fulton	lbw b Clarke	60	134	81	4	0	74.07
	RL Taylor	b Clarke	21	47	31	1	0	67.74
	SB Styris	c Hussey b Clark	34	53	36	2	0	94.44
	JDP Oram	c Hodge b Lee	15	13	9	1	1	166.66
	BB McCullum	b Clark	19	27	14	1	0	135.71
	DL Vettori	not out	3	9	4	0	0	75.00
	JEC Franklin	not out	13	4	5	0	1	260.00
	Extras	(b 2, lb 11, w 9, nb 4)	26
	Total	(7 wickets; 50 overs; 230 mins)	290

Did not bat MR Gillespie, SE Bond

Fall of wickets1-12 (Fleming, 2.5 ov), 2-163 (Fulton, 31.3 ov), 3-188 (Vincent, 36.5 ov), 4-212 (Taylor, 41.3 ov), 5-233 (Oram, 44.3 ov), 6-269 (Styris, 47.6 ov), 7-275 (McCullum, 49.1 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	B Lee	10	0	71	2	7.10	(3nb, 3w)
	SW Tait	10	1	26	1	2.60
	SR Clark	10	1	61	2	6.10	(1nb, 1w)
	MG Johnson	7	0	48	0	6.85	(1w)
	MJ Clarke	9	0	45	2	5.00	(2w)
	CL White	4	0	26	0	6.50	(1w)

Australia innings (target: 291 runs from 50 overs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	AC Gilchrist	b Franklin	29	46	28	4	0	103.57
	ML Hayden	c Taylor b Franklin	28	63	44	2	0	63.63
	RT Ponting	c Vincent b Gillespie	104	171	113	6	1	92.03
	MJ Clarke	c McCullum b Vettori	9	45	20	0	0	45.00
	BJ Hodge	not out	99	123	86	7	1	115.11
	MEK Hussey	run out (Vincent/Oram)	8	9	5	1	0	160.00
	CL White	not out	1	5	1	0	0	100.00
	Extras	(lb 1, w 3, nb 9)	13
	Total	(5 wickets; 48.2 overs; 219 mins)	291

Did not bat SW Tait, SR Clark, B Lee, MG Johnson

Fall of wickets1-56 (Gilchrist, 10.6 ov), 2-65 (Hayden, 12.6 ov), 3-112 (Clarke, 22.4 ov), 4-266 (Ponting, 46.1 ov), 5-279 (Hussey, 47.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	JEC Franklin	10	0	56	2	5.60	(2nb)
	SE Bond	9	0	64	0	7.11	(2nb, 1w)
	MR Gillespie	8.2	0	45	1	5.40	(1nb)
	JDP Oram	5	0	44	0	8.80	(1nb)
	DL Vettori	10	0	55	1	5.50	(2nb, 2w)
	SB Styris	6	0	26	0	4.33

Scorecard thanks to Cricinfo