Australia Won the 2nd ODI in bilateral series in New Zealand, 2000

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 2nd match of 6 One day international Series was played on Eden Park, Auckland New Zealand on 19th Feb, 2000. 1st One day International series was rained out and was abandoned.

New Zealand won the toss and opts to bat first and this means Australia will bowl first and will chase the target which New Zealand makes, later in the game. This is how New Zealand team and 11 was looking like in this 2^nd 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 2^nd 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

New Zealand batted poorly and lost first 5 wickets on team score of only 52 runs in 13.3 over’s in the form of C Spearmen, N Astle, St. Fleming, C Cairns and R Twose. After that New Zealand kept losing wickets and were bowled out for only 122 runs in 30.1 over’s and top scored by C macmillan as he made 35 runs in 49 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 71 runs in 100 balls.

Australia was required to made 123 runs in 50 over’s to win this match and go 1-0 up in this series.

Australia batted superbly well and chased the target of 123 runs in only 25 over’s at the loss of only 5 wickets. And M hayden was the top scorer with 50 runs in 49 balls with 9 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 102 runs in 100 balls.

Brett Lee was the Man of the match for his 3 wickets in 7 over’s.

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