NZ tour of Oz, Dec 4-9

[meninblue]

warner edges one just past 2nd slip

that would have been good for my FL, a wicket for boult and warner out early

Well made 100

[mikesiva]

Marsh reached his half century with a six!

[rich1uk]

australia more than doubled where they were at the 30 over mark and with an over to go

[rich1uk]

ian smith wont be enjoying this half hour commentary stint

[rich1uk]

how was that not a wide ?

[rich1uk]

weird little stat

australia scored exactly twice as many off the last 25 overs as they from the first 25

126-1 after 25 then a further 252 from the second 25

[mikesiva]

Australia 378-5. Game over. ..surely.

[meninblue]

378 is too much even at Canberra.

[yuppie]

NZ don't have the batting lower down to lift the run rate if the top order build a stable platform for the chase.

Nice to Marsh get some runs, was due.

Warner's 6th ODI of the year

Santers bowling figures stand out for NZ.

[yuppie]

Guptil not going to hang about.

Got to think if NZ have any chance he needs to bat for 30 overs.

[bigfluffylemon]

378 is too much even at Canberra.

Yup.

India came bloody close to chasing around 350 last year, only to be defeated by a lower order collapse. And their batting is much stronger than the Kiwis, especially without McCullum or Taylor. Can't see New Zealand getting close to this one unless Williamson and Guptill pull out something incredible.

[bigfluffylemon]

Good grief. Looking at the stats, since it started hosting ODIs again in 2013, there has only been one score of below 329 in the first innings of ODIs at Manuka - Bangladesh scored 267 in the World Cup 2015. They still won, as their opposition was Afghanistan. The team batting first has won on every occasion apart from a tri-series game between India and Sri Lanka in 2008 (that was rain affected), and a 1992 world cup match.

Foolish to send Australia in after winning the toss.

[rich1uk]

looking like game over already with guptill gone

as classy as williamson is dont think he can play the sort of innings he would need to

[hopeforthebest]

Surely just lollygagging along to a modest 260 is not worth it. Better get on with it rather than drag it out.

[rich1uk]

camera shots of the sky are more interesting than the game