New Zealand vs England | 4th ODI | Napier | 20/02/2008

[Saj]

England team

AN Cook, P Mustard, IR Bell, KP Pietersen, PD Collingwood, OA Shah, AD Mascarenhas, LJ Wright, SCJ Broad, RJ Sidebottom, JM Anderson

New Zealand team

JD Ryder, BB McCullum, JM How, LRPL Taylor, SB Styris, PG Fulton, JDP Oram, DL Vettori, KD Mills, IE O'Brien, CS Martin


Toss New Zealand, who chose to field first

 

[Saj]

Its an all food opening partnership for England again - Cook and Mustard

5 for 0 from 2 overs

 

[Mohsin]

Both openers firing well, 95/0 after 16

 

[12thMan]

great start from. Cook 53 - Mustard 67
England 125-0 after 21 overs

 

[12thMan]

Mustard out on 83 ct at long on off Ryder
Eng 158-1 after 26.5
Will this trigger the collapse?

 

[12thMan]

Cook out next ball
158-2

 

[Mohsin]

lol
Timber!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[12thMan]

Ballay Ballay 184 up
31.3 overs gone

 

[12thMan]

Eng 224-2 after 38 overs
They should get atleast 300 from here. England highest score against NZ is 322 in 1983 WC

 

[12thMan]

Bell out ct at square leg boundary off O'Brien
Eng 232-3 after 39.1 overs

 

[legslip]

With Bell, Pieterson and Collingwood's mediocre performances of late, Owais Shah needs to be placed higher in the order to prove his worthiness and credentials to the teams cause-at times it almost seems as if England are doing him a favour by picking him. Shah, nearly always is required to rebuild the innings or slog when he needs to push the tempo.

 

[12thMan]

Collingia is the beast of the day. 3 sixes already and while I type this gets bowled trying to hit another one
Eng 277-4 after 43.5 overs
should be 320 from here

edit: it was Pietersen out. Collingwood now has 6 sixes all to squareleg and midwicket. 24 ball 50 for him

 

[12thMan]

Eng 322-5 after 48 overs

 

[12thMan]

9 runs and a wicket of Wright off last over
Eng 340-6 after 50 overs

 

[Plasma]

Good total, England should easily win it.

 

[PlanetPakistan]

Good total, England should easily win it.

well the ground is very small and the pitch is very good for batting

 

[Plasma]

well the ground is very small and the pitch is very good for batting

Lets see how it turns out,

















calls the bookie to cancel my bet.

 

[12thMan]

game starting Andersen bowling to Ryder

 

[infamous9383]

NZ are frankly crap. I still don't know how they keep making to the semi-finals most of the time. No standout batsmans(Oram maybe), no threating bowlers but still they somehow do well in world cup.

 

[12thMan]

NZ 20-0 after 4 overs - need 321 more to win

 

[12thMan]

NZ 50-0 after 6.3 overs - need 291 more to win
Andersen going for runs have given 38 runs

 

[PlanetPakistan]

see what i told you Plasma bata

 

[legslip]

see what i told you Plasma bata

steady on now...a couple of wickets here and we may see the Kiwis collapsing like a pack of cards.

 

[12thMan]

McCullum better start hitting now as I am about to leave.
NZ 61-0 after 9 overs - need 280 more to win

 

[Plasma]

see what i told you Plasma bata

i made a mistake papa ji, maf kar do.

 

[PlanetPakistan]

steady on now...a couple of wickets here and we may see the Kiwis collapsing like a pack of cards.

You might be right.
IMO NZ will certainly score 300+

 

[12thMan]

2 succesive fours by McCullum. Good to see he is reading my text messages
NZ 70-0 after 9.5 overs - required RR 6.75
Eng was 44-0

 

[12thMan]

Ryder out ct at midwicket. a good catch by Andersen
NZ 70-1 after 10.1 overs

 

[UP]

Should be an interesting and close match if New Zealand keep playing like this.

 

[volcyz]

Remember how many times NZ has chased down Australias 300+ totals...

 

[Sahastra]

Did anyone else too notice the "Gucci" ad with "Heart of Glass" track (80s Hit by Blondie) in the background in between the over-breaks?.

Some fond memories that!

 

[Amir]

NZ are frankly crap. I still don't know how they keep making to the semi-finals most of the time. No standout batsmans(Oram maybe), no threating bowlers but still they somehow do well in world cup.

And you were saying?

 

[UP]

Should be a cracker of a match!

 

[PlanetPakistan]

NZ should easily win this thing

 

[Matic]

Only 2 runs from Anderson's over!

NZ now need 23 off 18.

 

[PlanetPakistan]

ENG back in the game with the wicket of Oram.

 

[Toony™®]

22 off 17.. a formality has become exciting...

 

[Toony™®]

21 off 15...

 

[Toony™®]

20 off 14..

 

[Matic]

Vettori really struggling to get bat on ball only 3 off 7 from him.

 

[Toony™®]

england need them to score no more than 18.

 

[Toony™®]

19 off 13.

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

gonna be an exciting finish

 

[Matic]

NZ need 17 from 12 balls.

Sidebottom completes his 10, this is going to be Anderson's last over, replacement bowler will have to bowl last over! This is exciting.

 

[Toony™®]

13 off 11...

4 off first ball.

 

[Toony™®]

12 off 10.

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

quality - c'mon NZ

 

[Matic]

12 off 10!

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

11 off 9

 

[Toony™®]

11 off 9.

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

surely NZ cant mess this up from here?

 

[Toony™®]

9 off 8

 

[Matic]

Vettori was actually short of the crease in the 2 runs squeezed from the 48th over, just a little info for us to talk about after the outcome of this.

 

[Toony™®]

8 off 7

 

[Toony™®]

7 off 6.

Luke wright to bowl. -strange.. as he hasnt bowled today.

 

[Matic]

Vettori turns on the boosters in the 49th over, captain kiwi doing it for his team.

NZ need 7 to win!

 

[Toony™®]

Jamie How's home ground..


6 off 5.

 

[Matic]

Luke Wright, this is your stage.

 

[Toony™®]

Vettori on strike.

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

C'mon man we need a boundary, whats with the singles

 

[Toony™®]

captain busy busy busy ...

 

[Toony™®]

5 off 4..

 

[Toony™®]

3 off 3

 

[Matic]

England is in scrambles on the field.

5 off 4.

 

[Toony™®]

2 off 2

 

[Matic]

3 off 3 *

 

[Matic]

2 off 2*

lol

 

[Matic]

Would have been out if direct hit.

 

[Toony™®]

run out!

Anderson direct hit!

How is out!




2 off 1 to win!

 

[Matic]

Wow! It's all happening out there.

 

[Toony™®]

what a climax!

 

[Toony™®]

match tied!

 

[Showman]

Its only Luke Wright! How could this happen...this could be a heartbreaker for NZ!

 

[Showman]

Tied! NZ really let that slip!

 

[Toony™®]

leg bye off last ball!

England rescued that result..

series still not lost!

NZ should be kicking themselves!

 

[Matic]

And they get the single! England NEEDED to win to stay alive in the series so this is like a loss for them, good game good game..

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

Damn, match tied - NZ messed this up man, they should have won considering Wright bowled the last over and they had 4 wickets in hand

 

[Toony™®]

If we had the old rules England would of won based on losing fewer wickets.

 

[Sahastra]

Third Umpire messed up Vettori's run-out. Otherwise, England would've won.

 

[P4K1 #1]

what a match... NZL deserved to win, but then you can can say vettori was run out!! lets hope for another thriller at christcurch