It was just unfortunate for Australia to lose the first match of the Chappel-Hadlee series against New Zealand when a last moment risk from Scott Styris saw Australia with the last option of making it to the presentation ceremony first before Vettori had to. And, from then onwards, needless to be said, it has been only Aussies to have been walking away with the honors of the day. If not for the 2nd one dayer, the remaining two one dayers were completely dominated by Australia. And, this time in the fourth ODI, Australia dismissed Kiwis' claim in the 2nd ODI.
In the 2nd one dayer at Auckland, New Zealand were found blaming the Duckworth-Lewis method for their team's loss against Australia which saw their required number of runs being reduced by just 8 runs and the number of balls being reduced by 30. And, this time, it was the Aussies who were found facing the same situation when rain tried to play a spoilsport. The revised target for Australia happened to be 200 runs from 32 overs as against the 238 run target they were supposed to chase from 50 overs had everything gone alright. Meaning the number of runs required was reduced by just 39 and the number of balls by 96.
Had the game went on smoothly, and than Australia would have had to chase at the rate of just above 4.0 an over, which happened to be just below 6.0 an over after the rain interruption. The main thing that proved costly for the Kiwis was their batting which saw the 2nd highest score in their innings happened to be scored by a number 8 batsman in Darryl Tuffey who bought in all his experience. If not for Bollinger, all the Aussie bowlers returned with wickets and a run rate below 6.0 an over. Most of the Kiwi batsmen were batting as though it was a test match that would end in a draw.
And, when it came to the batting of Australian team, similar to their bowling, if not for one batsmen in Brad Haddin, the rest of them showed no signs of fear and mercy in belting the New Zealand bowlers. One Aussie batsman in Ricky Ponting was found having 8 hits to the fence which was 75% of what the entire New Zealand team put together could do. However, when it came to the number of sixes hit, New Zealand managed to take the upperhand when their team had 9 sixes compared to just 3 from the Aussie side. However, once again, the man-of-the-match was not justified. Scorecard suggests that it was Ricky Ponting who should have been awarded the Mom which was unfortunately awarded to White.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
2nd match, Sydney and 127 all out!
Well it is at present needless to be said regarding the 140 run crushing defeat that Pakistan was handed in the second one dayer of the first phase of the Commonwealth bank series 2010 by Australia. However, one aspect to be noted from the match is that Pakistan was bundled out for 127, the total which a couple of weeks back was Australia's at the same venue in the first innings of the second test. However, unlike in the second test match, the winners were not the ones who were bundled out for 127. In the 2nd test, it was Australia who were first bundled out for 127 and finally went on to win the match by 36 runs.
But, this time in the second one day international, it was Pakistan who were bundled out for 127 but the only difference being that they had to end up on the losing side. Perhaps! There was no second innings like in a test match for the Pakistanis to make a comeback. However, one has to wonder as to what on earth made the Pakistani captain Mohammed Yousuf to opt to bowl on a surface that would deteriorate gradually as the match progressed? Another tragedy that was personally invited by Mohammed Yousuf was the timing when he declared the bowling powerplay.
Yousuf went in for the bowling power play as soon as the first powerplay, that is mandatory during the first 10 overs, when he introduced the bowling powerplay in the 11th over itself. That was the time when the Aussie openers were in full bloom without losing a single wicket. This was the favor that Mohammed Yousuf did to his opposition which paved the way for 100 run 1st wicket partnership. The partnership lasted for exactly 100 runs, after which Watson got out. From then onwards, batting was difficult indeed, which was evident from the way the rest of the Aussie batsmen played.
One point that Yousuf has found to have learnt from the first ODI is that, this time he made use of all the bowlers that were available to him. Meaning six bowlers were used, out of which Shoaib Malik (who had not bowled in the first ODI) was made to bowl 4 overs. Otherwise, the Pakistani approach was hardly any different from the first ODI. However, the pitch never seemed to trouble the batsmen in the initial stages of the Aussie innings, when there was a 100 run 1st wicket partnership as mentioned above. And even afterwards, there was Cameron White who scored yet another half century (55 from 58 balls).
Added to that was the superb catches taken by Ponting & White in the slips to get rid of Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik respectively. But, with just 3 out of the 11 Pakistani players scoring above 10, their defeat can be no exception. Rather than playing slowly and steadily, someone like Naved-Ul-Hasan going to smash every ball during his 22 ball 27 that included 2 sixes can never be justified whatsoever. When a defeat was already on the cards, a face saving innings from Naced would have helped matters.
But, this time in the second one day international, it was Pakistan who were bundled out for 127 but the only difference being that they had to end up on the losing side. Perhaps! There was no second innings like in a test match for the Pakistanis to make a comeback. However, one has to wonder as to what on earth made the Pakistani captain Mohammed Yousuf to opt to bowl on a surface that would deteriorate gradually as the match progressed? Another tragedy that was personally invited by Mohammed Yousuf was the timing when he declared the bowling powerplay.
Yousuf went in for the bowling power play as soon as the first powerplay, that is mandatory during the first 10 overs, when he introduced the bowling powerplay in the 11th over itself. That was the time when the Aussie openers were in full bloom without losing a single wicket. This was the favor that Mohammed Yousuf did to his opposition which paved the way for 100 run 1st wicket partnership. The partnership lasted for exactly 100 runs, after which Watson got out. From then onwards, batting was difficult indeed, which was evident from the way the rest of the Aussie batsmen played.
One point that Yousuf has found to have learnt from the first ODI is that, this time he made use of all the bowlers that were available to him. Meaning six bowlers were used, out of which Shoaib Malik (who had not bowled in the first ODI) was made to bowl 4 overs. Otherwise, the Pakistani approach was hardly any different from the first ODI. However, the pitch never seemed to trouble the batsmen in the initial stages of the Aussie innings, when there was a 100 run 1st wicket partnership as mentioned above. And even afterwards, there was Cameron White who scored yet another half century (55 from 58 balls).
Added to that was the superb catches taken by Ponting & White in the slips to get rid of Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik respectively. But, with just 3 out of the 11 Pakistani players scoring above 10, their defeat can be no exception. Rather than playing slowly and steadily, someone like Naved-Ul-Hasan going to smash every ball during his 22 ball 27 that included 2 sixes can never be justified whatsoever. When a defeat was already on the cards, a face saving innings from Naced would have helped matters.
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