Australia lost the 6th ODI in bilateral series in New Zealand, 2000 but won the series 4-1

Australia was scheduled to play 6 One Day International Matches in New Zealand in 2000.

It was a very interesting series as both these teams were playing some great cricket on that time. The 6th and final match of 6 One day international Series was played on Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand on 3rd March, 2000.

Australia won the toss and opts to bat first and this means New Zealand will bowl first and will chase target set by Australia later in the game.

This is how New Zealand team and 11 was looking like in this 6th One day International Match: Stephen Fleming (c), Nathan Astle, Chris Cairns, Craig McMillan, Scott Styris, Daniel Vettori, Chris Harris, Adam Parore (wk), Roger Twose, Craig Spearman, Paul Wiseman

And Australia team and 11 was looking like this in this 6th One day international match: Adam Gilchrist (wk), Andrew Symonds, Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Shane Warne, Damien Martyn, Matthew Hayden, Steve Waugh (c), Mark Waugh, Michael Bevan, Shane Lee.

Australia started poorly in this match and was 3 wickets down for only team score of 22 runs in 7.4 over’s in the form of M hayden, S Waugh and M bevan. Australia kept on losing wickets at regular intervals in this game and was bowled out for only 191 runs in 46.2 over’s and D Martin top scored with 116 runs in 135 balls with 13 4’s and 1 six and Adam G only made 22 runs in 27 balls with 1 six. Australia tried to change the batting order in this game but it hasn’t worked and also back fired.

New Zealand was needed to score 192 runs in 50 over’s to win this last One Day international Match.

New Zealand batted superbly well in this match and chased the total in only 41 over’s at the loss of only 3 wickets and won the game by 7 wickets in hand.

Chris Nevin was the man of the match for his 74 runs in 94 balls with 9 4’s and strike rate of 78 runs in 100 balls. Australia won the series by 4-1.

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