New Zealand v West Indies

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Game 1
Eden Park, Auckland
3pm AEDT Friday December 26
Game 2
Seddon Park, Hamilton
3pm AEDT Sunday December 28

Two draws in the Test series, now they have some fun with a couple of Twenty20 games. Gayle and Marshall v Ryder and McCullum will go a long way towards deciding this, but NZ have a far stronger middle order for this form of the game with Taylor, Styris and Oram, and Mills, Franklin, Southee and Thompson can all hit the ball a long way.

New Zealand XIII:
Jesse Ryder
+Brendon McCullum
Daniel Flynn
Ross Taylor
Scott Styris
Jacob Oram
*Daniel Vettori
Kyle Mills
James Franklin
Tim Southee
Ewen Thompson (international debut)
Mark Gillespie
Jeetan Patel
Changes from Test Series
In:
Scott Styris
Jacob Oram
Tim Southee
Ewen Thompson
Out:
Jamie How
Tim McIntosh
Iain O'Brien
Changes from Twenty20 in England in June
In:
Jesse Ryder
Jacob Oram
James Franklin
Tim Southee
Ewen Thompson
Jeetan Patel
Out:
Jamie How
James Marshall
Peter Fulton
Michael Mason

West Indies XVI:
*Chris Gayle
Xavier Marshall
Sewnarine Chattergoon (T20I debut)
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Shawn Findlay (T20I debut)
Kieron Pollard
Carlton Baugh (T20I debut)
Brendan Nash (T20I debut)
Jerome Taylor
+Denesh Ramdin
Daren Powell
Nikita Miller (T20I debut)
Fidel Edwards
Sulieman Benn
Lionel Baker (T20I debut)
Changes from Test team
In:
Shawn Findlay
Kieron Pollard
Carlton Baugh
Nikita Miller
Changes from Twenty20 against Australia in June
In:
Chris Gayle
Sewnarine Chattergoon
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Shawn Findlay
Carlton Baugh
Brendan Nash
Daren Powell
Nikita Miller
Lionel Baker
Out:
WKD Perkins
Dwayne Bravo
Andre Fletcher
Darren Sammy
Kemar Roach


Recent History:
February 16, 2006 @ Auckland
New Zealand won in bowl out 3-0
West Indies 7/126 (20)
Chanderpaul 26 (27)
Bond 2/15 (4)
Styris 2/33 (4)
New Zealand 8/126 (20)
Vincent 42 (37)
Dwayne Smith 2/9 (3.2)
Bravo 2/16 (2.4)

Weather:
Auckland: Sunny, 22
Hamilton: Sunny, 23

Coverage:
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RadioSport NZ (http://www.radiosport.co.nz/listenlive/radiosport.asx)

[Marklar_33]

I would nearly say New Zealand have the best batting line-up for this format of cricket, although not exactly in the order listed before. Of course, they will rarely live up to potential!

[stmookeyj]

Game 1, NZ won the toss and batted

NZ: Ryder, McCullum, Taylor, Styris, Oram, Flynn, Franklin, Mills, Vettori (C), Southee, Patel
WI: Gayle (C), Chanderpaul, Marshall, Sarwan, Pollard, Findlay, Baker, Baugh, Benn, Edwards, Taylor

NZ made 7/155 off their 20. Taylor 63 (50) top score, Gayle only bowler to take more than 1 wicket. After 10 overs in the reply, Windies are 2/85 with Gayle 45 off 28 still there with Sarwan just joining him.

[stmookeyj]

Last over, Windes need 7 to win

[stmookeyj]

7 off 5 with Southee getting Findlay off the 1st ball of the 20th. Benn new man in with Taylor.

[stmookeyj]

7 off 4, dot ball.

[stmookeyj]

6 off 3, correction as Edwards is in rather than Benn.

[stmookeyj]

6 off 2, dot ball. Windies need a boundary as Edwards is run out.

[stmookeyj]

Boundary to Taylor, 2 to win, 1 to tie, last ball.

[stmookeyj]

Single, TIE GAME.....

[Cousin Jed]

Haha another tiebreaker can't believe it

[stmookeyj]

"Super over" to decide it (1 bowler bowls 1 over, maximum 3 batsmen to be used, most runs wins I guess).

[stmookeyj]

Windies to bat first in the extra over given they batted 2nd in regulation.

[stmookeyj]

HOW IT WORKS

- 1 over, max 3 batsmen.
- if 2 wickets fall then no more balls to be bowled
- in the case of a tie in that over, then it's fewest wickets (NZ 7-8), then most 6's (currently 7-7), then most 4's (WI 13-11). Unsure if these overs count towards those tallies.

[stmookeyj]

Vettori bowling, Gayle, Marshall and Chanderpaul to be the batsmen. Light fading, lights not working but onwards we march.

[Cousin Jed]

Bad decision to go for 2 there.

[Cousin Jed]

Great decision to go for 2 there.

[Cousin Jed]

Brilliant decision to go for 2 there

[Cousin Jed]

Absolutely Amazing decision to go for 2 there.

Crap bowling.

[stmookeyj]

WI OVER: 6, 1X (Marshall Run out), 6, 6, 4, 2

NZ bats are Oram, McCullum and Taylor, Benn is the WI bowler.

[TassieSaint]

what happened to the bowl off thing? that was funny as

this is both awesome and ridiculous at the same time, I wish I had fox

[stmookeyj]

26 to win, 25 without loss is enough on a countback

[Juddy88]

3 sixes needed from 3 balls for NZL.

[Juddy88]

Lol and Taylor gets the first away. No ball as well. Only 12 from three needed.


Taylor gets out, it's all over.

[Cousin Jed]

Had to be a no ball

[stmookeyj]

Standing O for Gayle after that over, this game is made for him.

NZ OVER: 6, 2, X (Oram caught at long on), 6NB (waist high full toss, no free hit), X

West Indies win.

[trueblue_91]

incredible!!!

Fantastic by Gayle but at the same time poor by Vettori. That No Ball by Benn really made it interesting:p

[DoubleO7]

Bloody oath, Gayle you gun.

[alfy!]

what a match, gayle was a star

[beez]

Quite funny that they've played twice and tied twice

[JUBJUB]

Quite funny that they've played twice and tied twice

and it's been the same venue twice

[red+black]

For both games
- New Zealand won the toss
- umpired by Billy Bowden and Tony Hill
- 6 runs were required off the last two balls to win, but only a 4 and a single were scored
- the team batting first lost 7 wickets and the team batting second lost 8 wickets
- the #10 batsman scored the tying run
- the #1 opener for the team batting second top scored for the match
- eventually won by the team batting second.

[stmookeyj]

GAME 2

Thompson in for the injured Styris (broken finger) for NZ, keeper change for the Windies with Ramdin in for Baugh

NZ are batting, and are 0/29 in the 4th.

[red+black]

Tie?

[stmookeyj]

Doubt it this time, 0/82 after the 8th with McCullum 49 off 27....

[alfy!]

Great start by New Zealand, should be looking at 200 here.

[red+black]

There have only been six 100 run opening partnerships in international T20 cricket. Five of them were made in 2007, the only one this year by Scotland!

And they've done it. 104*, the =4th best opening, 145 being the best.

[beez]

This is far more entertaining than that silly game at the MCG. Kiwis 0/106 after 10 overs. Both Ryder and McCullum have half centuries.

[red+black]

Amazing. 106* off 10 overs. McCullum 51* (30), Ryder 50* (30).

[Hoggy]

Brilliant batting, disgraceful fielding.

Chris Gayle has the only ton in a 20/20 international, dead set both Baz and Big Jess could do so in a few overs time.

Hope they put Oram at 3...


Edit - not Baz now, he's out. :(

[Hoggy]

Wow...!

[red+black]

More evidence that video replays need to be used for any incident.

Ryder top edges over the keeper for 4, umpire calls 4 byes :rolleyes:

[red+black]

1st 10 overs 0/106
2nd 10 overs: 9/85

[JUBJUB]

An easy 36 run win to the Kiwis.Pollard fielded like Ben Rohrer from NSW.At least he made some runs to make up for some of his blunders while fielding.

Chanderpaul is a great player but no way should he be playing T20.He's got no idea.

[JUBJUB]

Does it ever stop raining in New Zealand ?
It looks like the 2nd ODI is going to end like the 1st - rained out.

[red+black]

Can we ship Telstra Dome over to New Zealand?

Then we could build a proper stadium here.

[red+black]

In future, can we sticky threads of international series and not make them so specific (ie. T20)?

Martin Guptill has just had made the 2nd highest score on debut. Brought up his 100 with a 6 :thumbsu:

To score a century on debut:
- 1st player for 14 years
- 5th player ever
- 1st Kiwi
- 1st against WI
- and he also carried his bat through the 50 overs

http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/nzvwi2008_09/engine/current/match/366712.html

[damochandler]

are we any chance of getting another complete game in this series. whats the weather like for tomorrow. it should be a flat track to bat on to by the last odi at that ground. the poms and kiwis played out a tie last year on this ground, thanx to a how 100

[Oscarman]

Had a work meeting today - at a pub, and saw some of the play so far today. Chris Gayle has got the locals in the nearby houses shitting themselves. One six nearly hit a solar hot water system on someone's roof. Great stuff.:thumbsu::D

[DoubleO7]

Gayle is a gun.

Another ODI century.

Would not surprise me if he takes a couple of wickets with his off spinners.

[JUBJUB]

Had a work meeting today - at a pub, and saw some of the play so far today. Chris Gayle has got the locals in the nearby houses shitting themselves. One six nearly hit a solar hot water system on someone's roof. Great stuff.:thumbsu::D

and another of his sixes clobbered a spectator in the face.The guy was alright,but he was a bit bloodied.

[Cotchin 9]

McCullum is teeing off :D.

[damochandler]

McCullum is teeing off :D.


he is out now and so is guptill and the rain has hit again. they are 5 for 211. knowing what has happened in this series. we wont get any more play today

[DoubleO7]

Just saw highlights of Chanderpaul's innings and WOW!

It was incredible!!

[The Cotch]

What a shame the match had to end like that. West Indies deserved to win, I don't understand this Duckworth Lewis crap. One more wicket and New Zealand would've been in the sh!t.

Also just on Gayle and Chanderpaul..........WOW. Chanderpauls reverse sweeping was amazing although it did bring about his downfall.

[beez]

God knows why they ever bother to play cricket in New Zealand...

[Cleavy]

Why did Ramdin and Powell bat ahead of Nash?

[Mr P@H]

Oh oh, looks like Chanderpaul and Gayle are hitting form. Great partnership to watch though.