New Zealand Beat Australia in 2nd ODI of series,2010

Australia was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International in New Zealand in 2010. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 1 and 4. The 2nd ONE DAY international match was to be played on McLean Park, Napier, New Zealand on 4^th Mar 2010. Australia holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

Australia won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Australia team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd ONE DAY international match: Ricky Ponting (c), Michael Clarke, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Nathan Hauritz, Cameron White, James Hopes, Mitchell Johnson, Doug Bollinger, Ryan Harris, Michael Hussey

And New Zealand team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd ONE DAY international Match: Scott Styris, Jacob Oram, Brendon McCullum (wk), Daryl Tuffey, Shane Bond, James Franklin, Ross Taylor (c), Tim Southee, Neil Broom, Martin Guptill, Peter Ingram

Australia batted well and was able to post total of 255 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and with top scores of M Clarke who made 60 runs in 50 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls and B haddin who made 30 runs in 30 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand was needed to score 256 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

New Zealand batted well and was able to chase the target of 256 runs in 48.1 over’s at the loss of 7 wicket and won the game by 3 wicket in hand with top contributions from Kane W who made 80 runs in 80 balls with 6 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand won the match by 3 wickets in hand and series stands at 2-0 in favor of New Zealand with 5 more games to play.

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