New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2004–05
The New Zealand national cricket team toured Australia in the 2004–05 season and played 2 Test matches against Australia.
Test series
Australia won the Test series 2–0 with convincing wins in both matches.
Glenn McGrath was named man of the series after hitting his first half century in the First Test[1] and took 9 wickets over the two matches.
1st Test
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- New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
- The match was scheduled for five days but completed in four.
2nd Test
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
One Day Internationals
Australia and New Zealand played an ODI series which ended 1–1 with one game abandoned due to rain. This was the inaugural Chappell–Hadlee Trophy.
New Zealand's victory at Melbourne was the first win by New Zealand against Australia in almost 3 years.[2] The match at Brisbane was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to heavy rain, preventing the series decider from taking place.[3]
1st ODI
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- New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
The first match at
Australia began proceedings with opening partners
New Zealand began the run chase in a tenuous fashion, losing the wicket of captain Stephen Fleming
Hamish Marshall's impressive and innovative innings of 50 not-out earned him
2nd ODI
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
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The second match at Sydney Cricket Ground on 8 December was won by Australia, and was similar to the first in that Australia set a competitive total and New Zealand put up a very good chase, making for another close finish.
The New Zealand run chase was every bit as exciting as it had been in the first match. Nathan Astle followed up his 70 runs in the first match with just 11, beaten by the bowling of Australian speedster Brett Lee. Sinclair was the next to go, scoring 17 runs before edging a Jason Gillespie ball to Hayden in the slips. This was the beginning of a New Zealand collapse, with Scott Styris the next to depart with 5 runs, and then Stephen Fleming who had successfully taken on Lee, scoring 34 runs from 44 balls, falling to Brad Hogg's first delivery, given out LBW. Jacob Oram then fell for two runs, followed by Hamish Marshall for just 9, the latter falling victim to a quick ball from Lee which took his off stump.
New Zealand had lost five wickets for 23 runs, but a remarkable revival was to come, which perhaps would have won the match were it not for a dubious decision going against them.
Chris Cairns and Brendon McCullum found themselves in the precarious position of being at 6/86 after 22 overs, needing 262 for victory. Cairns hit fast and hard, knocking 50 runs from 40 balls, before falling victim to Gillespie's bowling, attempting another boundary. Three overs later, McCullum was the recipient of a ball from Brad Hogg which he attempted to block, getting a thick edge of his bat to the ball before it struck his pads. Upon appeal however, umpire Peter Parker gave McCullum out, a clearly incorrect decision.
Two bowlers, Kyle Mills and Daniel Vettori, were then the batsmen for New Zealand, and had the task of getting nearly 100 runs in less than 13 overs, with only the shoulder sling-sporting Chris Harris left to bat if either of them was dismissed. They took to this task with an amazing showcase of batting prowess, the likes of which would have been impressive for opening batsmen, let alone bottom-order batsmen.
Initially, Vettori took control with competent batting and got to 27 runs at the beginning of the 42nd over, with Mills having taken a more passive role at 7 runs. This role was soon to be reversed. Mills hit four sixes in four consecutive balls, over the space of two overs, in a display considered[by whom?] to be worthy of any current top batsman. In the following over, now needing only a run per ball bowled, Vettori was run out by a direct throw from Ricky Ponting, to have New Zealand 9/236.
Chris Harris bravely took to the batting crease with a runner, Hamish Marshall. Looking ungainly and in considerable discomfort due to his previously incurred injury, he managed 4 runs from 6 balls before being beaten by a McGrath yorker which took his middle stump, leaving Mills at 44 not-out from 26 balls, and New Zealand all out for 244.
3rd ODI
The third match at
External sources
Notes
References
- Playfair Cricket Annual
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack