Australia blitzed

[CrestOfaWave]

Chappell-Hadlee series
Wellington
Australia 148 (S E Bond 5-23) v New Zealand 149-0 (L Vincent 73 no, S P Fleming 70 no)
New Zealand beat Australia by 10 wkts


LMAO - well done you Kiwis....

First time in over 600 1 day games that Australia has lost by 10 wickets.

[smithy69]

wouldn't read too much into it to be honest

Australia rested Ponting and Gilchrist, plus Lee didn't play.

Although it could be argued that they are playing themselves into bad form.

[CrestOfaWave]

True but TBH any result like this against the Ockers is worth having a gloat about.

This is almost as funny as when their boat sunk in the America's cup - to which NZ billboards had the phrase ' what goes down faster than a bottle of Steinlager ' with a picture of the mast submerged in the Ocean ...

ps I got shafted by 2 Aussie's to the tune of over £250k GBP from my equity holding at a business startup here in the UK so I am not bitter - most Aussies are nice people...

[smithy69]

i will also gloat, but dont wanna say too much as i know how good they are as a cricket team.

also symonds and clarke were rested, aussies were actually 1.8 or thereabouts at the start of the match

[Longy]

Lost again last night after setting the Kiwis a mammoth 336, the Kiwis knocked it off with 9 balls to spare.

The world cup is starting to look more open though the aussies are still faves for mine, this must bring them back to the pack.

[CrestOfaWave]

I agree - Australia will still be very tough. What a great one day game. Saw some of the highlights on SkyNews. Amazing amount of runs. Would love to have been on the terraces at Eden Park in the warm summer sun.

Not to worry off to Dubai for a week on Thursday ,plenty of sun there -but no poker for a whole week - ahhhh

Greg