Australia won by 8 runs.
Great chase by NZ, led by a brialliant century by Jacob Oram but they fell agonisingly short. England will have to watch out on tuesday.
Australia has won the toss and decided to bat. It's going to be tough work for NZ in the field as it's 40 degrees in Perth at the moment. Australia have made two changes, Nathan Bracken and Glenn McGrath are back in place of Brad Hogg and Stuart Clark. For NZ, Lou Vincent comes in for Nathan Astle who retired from international cricket the other day.
Mathew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist will open the batting for Australia. Gilchrist neede 72 runs to take him to 8600 ODI runs. Hayden needs 62 to take him to 4400.
Kyle Mills to open the bowling.
Over 1:
Good line and length from Mills. Getting a bit of late swing. Maiden.
0/0 Run Rate: 0
Gilchrist 0 (6 balls)
Hayden 0 (o balls)
Mills 1-1-0-0
Over 2:
Mark Gillespie into the attack.
3rd ball Hayden dropped by Vettori, should have been taken. Another maiden.
0/0 Run rate: 0
Gilchrist 0 (6 balls)
Hayden 0 (6 balls)
Gillespie 1-1-0-0
Over 3
2nd ball FOUR! Gilchrist
0/5 Run rate: 1.66
Gilchrist 4 (12 balls)
Hayden 0 (6 balls)
Mills 2 O 1 M 0 W 5 R
Over 4
2nd ball 5 wides
4th ball 5 wides.
14 runs from the over
0/19 Run rate: 4.75
Gilchrist 5 (14 balls)
Hayden 3 ( 10 balls)
Gillespie 2-1-0-14
Over 5
3rd ball FOUR! Gilchrist
5th ball FOUR! Gilchrist
6th ball WICKET! Gilchrist hits one in the air trying to smash another through the covers. Great take by Patel, the ball was travelling very qucikly.
Gilchrist C Patel B Mills 13 (20 balls 3 4's)
1/28 Run Rate: 5.6
Hayden 3 (10 balls)
Ponting 0 ( 0 balls)
Mills 3-1-1-14
Over 6
Smoke, presumably from a bushfire has started to enter the ground.
1/29 Run Rate: 4.83
Hayden 4 (11 balls)
Ponting 0 (5 balls)
Gillespie 3-1-0-15
Over 7
2nd ball Hayden dropped again. Nobody called it, Taylor ended up going for it but made a mess of it.
5th ball. Hayden FOUR! Hayden.
1/35 Run rate: 5
Hayden 9 (15 balls)
Ponting 1 (8 balls)
Mills 4-1-1-20
Over 8
4th ball FOUR! Hayden
1/42 Run Rate: 5.25
Hayden 13 (18 balls)
Ponting 2 (10 balls)
Gillespie 4-1-22-0
Over 9
1st ball FOUR! Ponting
1/47 Run Rate: 5.22
Hayden 15 (19 balls)
Ponting 7 (15 balls)
Mills 5-1-1-25
Over 10
Oram into the attack
1st ball FOUR! Ponting
Boony just asked for a beer.
4th ball FOUR! Hayden
1/59 Run Rate: 5.9
Hayden 20 (23 balls)
Ponting 14 (17 balls)
Oram 1-0-0-12
Over 11
Vettori into the attack. Powerplay not taken.
6th ball. Ball up in the air, taken. Huge appeal, third umpire called. Looks like it's been hit into the ground. Hayden should be safe here. 3rd umpire says not out.
1/62 Run rate: 5.63
Hayden 21 (27 balls)
Ponting 15 (19 balls)
Vettori 1-0-0-3
Over 12
Oram off after 1 over, Patel into the attack.
1 run off the over
1/63 Run Rate 5.25
Hayden 21 (28 balls)
Ponting 16 (24 balls)
Patel 1-0-0-1
Over 13
The Fremantle doctor has arrived.
1/67 Run rate 5.15
Hayden 21 (28 balls)
Ponting 20 (30 balls)
Vettori 2-0-0-7
Over 14
5 off the over
1/72 Run rate: 5.14
Hayden 23 (31 balls)
Ponting 23 (33 balls)
Patel 2-0-0-6
Over 15
2 off the over.
1/74 Run Rate: 4.93
Hayden 24 (36 balls)
Ponting 24 (34 balls)
Vettori 3-0-0-9
Over 16
1/79 Run rate: 4.94
Hayden 25 (39 balls)
Ponting 27 (38 balls)
Patel 3-0-0-11
18 overs gone 1/87 Run rate: 4.83
Australia ended up scoring 343 for the loss of 5 wickets. Ponting and Hayden put on a 200 run partnership and both got centuries. New Zealand is currently 0/38 off 7.2 overs.
Australia scorecard (thanks to cricinfo)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
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 | AC Gilchrist | c Patel b Mills | 13 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 65.00 |
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| ML Hayden | b Vettori | 117 | 111 | 15 | 0 | 105.40 |
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 | RT Ponting | c Fulton b McMillan | 111 | 122 | 8 | 1 | 90.98 |
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| MJ Clarke | c sub (HJH Marshall) b Patel | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 87.50 |
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| A Symonds | b Gillespie | 24 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 184.61 |
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| MEK Hussey | not out | 29 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 181.25 |
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| CL White | not out | 20 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 166.66 |
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| Extras | (lb 2, w 18, nb 2) | 22 |
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| Total | (5 wickets; 50 overs) | 343 |
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Fall of wickets1-28 (Gilchrist, 4.6 ov), 2-228 (Hayden, 38.4 ov), 3-254 (Clarke, 41.5 ov), 4-275 (Ponting, 44.1 ov), 5-293 (Symonds, 45.6 ov)
New Zealand Scorecard
| New Zealand innings (target: 344 runs from 50 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
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| L Vincent | lbw b Clarke | 66 | 82 | 8 | 1 | 80.48 |
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| SP Fleming | c Gilchrist b McGrath | 28 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 103.70 |
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| PG Fulton | c Hayden b Johnson | 23 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 88.46 |
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| RL Taylor | b Clarke | 39 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 78.00 |
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| CD McMillan | run out (Johnson) | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 83.33 |
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| JDP Oram | not out | 101 | 72 | 4 | 6 | 140.27 |
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| BB McCullum | not out | 46 | 39 | 4 | 1 | 117.94 |
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| Extras | (b 2, lb 5, w 18, nb 2) | 27 |
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| Total | (5 wickets; 50 overs) | 335 |
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Fall of wickets1-47 (Fleming, 9.3 ov), 2-107 (Fulton, 18.3 ov), 3-142 (Vincent, 25.4 ov), 4-150 (McMillan, 27.2 ov), 5-198 (Taylor, 35.2 ov)
