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.

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