Player of the Match
Player of the Match

END OF OVER:
20 | 16 Runs | AUS: 216/4 | RR: 10.80

  • Tim David31 (10b)
  • Mitchell Marsh72 (44b)
  • Tim Southee4-0-52-0
  • Adam Milne4-0-53-1

10.36pm That was a fun, high-scoring thriller. It boiled down to the last ball, with Australia needing four off it and David did the job for Australia. Australia go 1-0 up in Wellington, with two games to go in Auckland. Brace yourselves for more big scores at Eden Park. Boult is set to return to international action there. So, plenty to look forward to at Eden Park. That's all we have for you from this game. Until next time, this is Deivarayan Muthu signing off on the behalf of Alex Malcolm. Take care and good night.

Mitch Marsh is the Player of the Match for his all-round effort. "Timmy David is extremely calm and has got a lot of confidence in his ability towards the end there," he says. "We're very lucky to have him. Just a great game of cricket. Any time you chase down 216 is a great effort. We just got over the line by the sheer brilliance of Tim David. We've got the Test series starting in a week so our bowlers will likely rotate. We've also got guys like Steve Smith who will come in for a crack at some point in time."

Mitch Santner: "I thought we didn't bowl too bad. But the power they possess all the way down is the reason why they're pretty good. [215] was a pretty good score. I guess we know they keep coming with the bat. The only way to stop them is to keep taking wickets and we didn't really do that today. It was a hell of a game of cricket. We've just got to reflect and move on. When the Bison (Mitch Marsh) can mis-hit it for six it means I might have to go to the gym to get some arms like that."

Srividya : "So Australia continue to silence crowds across the world ! And they did silence a very hostile crowd tonight "

Kiran: "Good game with a view to the World Cup. I was surprised that NZ didn't give another of their bowling options a go when it was going poorly in the middle just to experiment. "

James: "The real winner tonight was cricket. The real loser tonight was the Win Predictor"

Lilifar: "That's a powerful display of batting from Tim David "

Anis: "To that CSK Fan ...now MI fans very Happy :)"


19.6
4
Southee to David, FOUR, shovelled away with the bottom hand between deep midwicket and wide long-on. Bam! Even Phillips can't stop that! David finishes it off the last ball for Australia. Southee tries the yorker, but marginally misses his length, tails into David, but David still clears his front leg and absolutely muscles it away to the leg-side boundary. Phillips leaps to his left but David has hit it so hard. Phillips is shocked at the boundary. The crowd is shocked beyond the boundary. But this is just David doing David things

Australia need four to win off the last ball. Tim Southee vs Tim David.

19.5
2
Southee to David, 2 runs, off-stump yorker, good comeback from Southee. David carves away to the right of deep cover and rushes back for the double
19.4
6
Southee to David, SIX, Southee searches for a yorker, ends up pushing a full-toss down the leg side. David connects with it and sends it flat and hard over the boundary. Replays indicate that he hit the long-leg boundary cushions on the full

Australia 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st29DA WarnerTM Head
2nd40DA WarnerMR Marsh
3rd42MR MarshGJ Maxwell
4th61MR MarshJP Inglis
5th44MR MarshTH David