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| New Zealand Lose In Warm Up |
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| Pitched By Cricket360 Reporter | |||||||
| Friday, 30 January 2009 | |||||||
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New Zealand had arrived in Australia for the tour and played a warm up game against Prime Minister's XI. New Zealand had some important lessons to learn from the game comments Cricket360. New Zealand showed excellent batting skills especially from the opener McCullum but that was not enough as the Prime Minister's XI easily chased the score and won the warm up match.
Prime Minister's XI won the toss and elected to field first. New Zealand batting performance was decent and McCullum led from the front. Wickets were falling regularly after every 10 overs. New Zealand maintained a steady run rate through out the innings. First wicket of Guptill fell in the 6th over when the cricket score was 31 runs. Fulton and McCullum featured a partnership until Fulton was dismissed for 53 runs including 5 boundaries. Then Taylor joined McCullum and steadied the New Zealand innings but was dismissed in the crucial stage of the match in the 38th over when the cricket score was 183 runs. New Zealand scored 70 odd runs in the last 10 overs with McCullum providing the acceleration and momentum. McCullum was finally dismissed for 114 runs from 130 balls featuring 9 boundaries and a maiden six. New Zealand posted a cricket live score of 271 runs at the end of their innings. McKay of Prime Minister's XI picked up 3 wickets. Prime Minister's XI started their chase with a shaky start. The openers of Prime Minister's XI completely failed and were dismissed early. Prime Minister's XI was 53 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in the 10th over. Ferguson played aggressively but was dismissed for 30 runs from 32 balls including 5 boundaries. Bailey was the hero of the day taking Prime Minister's XI to victory. The 153 run partnership of Bailey and Langer was the key feature of the Prime Minister's XI innings. The middle order batsmen of Prime Minister's XI delivered the goods and took them to victory comments Cricket360.com. Bailey played a sensible knock. Langer was aggressive and was dismissed for 72 runs fro 67 balls featuring 5 boundaries when the live cricket score was 224 runs for the loss of 4 wickets. Bailey was declared man of the match for his unbeaten knock of 107 runs from 138 balls featuring 9 boundaries and 2 sixes. Prime Minister's XI reached their target of 272 runs with 13 balls to spare and won the match by 6 wickets. The bowling of New Zealand was ordinary with Patel taking 2 wickets.
3.25 Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."Newer news items:
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