New Zealand vs England | 5th ODI | Christchurch | 23/02/2008

[12thMan]

The decider. England has to win to tie the series. NZ is leading 2-1

New Zealand : JD Ryder, BB McCullum, JM How, LRPL Taylor, SB Styris, DR Flynn, JDP Oram, DL Vettori, KD Mills, JS Patel, CS Martin

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

Umpires Asad Rauf (Pakistan) and BF Bowden

Cook to face the first ball facing Mills

 

[12thMan]

2.2 Mills to Mustard, OUT, oh dear, well, he was never going to hang around. A monstrous heave off a good length, a spiralling leading edge, and Jamie How judges the ball well at cover, as it holds up in the wind and plops from floodlight-height into his safe hands
P Mustard c How b Mills 2 (8b 0x4 0x6) SR: 25.00

NZ 5-1 after 3 overs

 

[12thMan]

Cook picks Martin to leg side and gets first boundary of the Eng innings
Eng 13-1 after 5.2

 

[12thMan]

Eng 33-1 after 10 overs

 

[12thMan]

Bell ct at long off
Eng 57-2 after 14.1

 

[12thMan]

Eng 84-2 after 20 overs

 

[mmkextreme_1]

bro any links for this match?

 

[12thMan]

Eng 105-2 after 25 overs

 

[12thMan]

Cook out LBW Vettori
Eng 105-3

 

[Punter]

KP is out aswell

4/128 (33 overs)

Collingwood 14*
Shah 4*

 

[Punter]

Vettori now has 2 Collingwood stumped on 14

5/128

 

[iZeeshan]

Pretty abysmal batting from England so far.

 

[Plasma]

105-2 to ... 5/128

NZ should keep it under 170 from here...

 

[Punter]

7 balls left of the England innings

7/219

 

[Punter]

After 50 overs

England

242/7

 

[Shoaib Akhtar's Fan]

What an innings McCullum is playing here !!

 

[Shoaib Akhtar's Fan]

66 runs of 30 balls... 4 fours and 6 sixes !!

 

[Crusader]

McCullum has gone crazy....he is the best w/k batsman in ODIs..I remember in a match against bangladesh he scored some 80 in 30 balls...and match was over in 6 overs

 

[PlanetPakistan]

5 Anderson to McCullum, SIX, three in a row! And it's the hospitality boxes this time. Another limp length ball inviting the aggressive heave. Guileless bowling from Anderson. Once again
9.4 Anderson to McCullum, SIX, launched. Utterly launched. Over the covers and into the building site. This is astounding hitting
9.3 Anderson to McCullum, SIX, what a way to go to fifty! Heaved up up and away, into the second tier of the midwicket grandstand, where it is superbly caught one-handed in the crowd. Just 27 balls for that fifty. Monstrous

 

[infamous9383]

run rate at a scoring 9.36.

Its that man again McCullum.

 

[Crusader]

34 blls for his 72...

 

[infamous9383]

run out but it is ryder

 

[Crusader]

McCullum is practicing for his T20 matches in IPL

 

[PlanetPakistan]

wow! NZ just lost 3 wickets for 1 run!

198/6

 

[PlanetPakistan]

oh Billy!
That was out! Billy missed a huge edge.

 

[PlanetPakistan]

How did he miss that edge? This is amazing!

 

[6hitter]

new zealand won

 

[Amjid Javed]

new zealand are a very difficult side to beat in new zealand in odis, no shock they have won the series.

 

[Saj]

Must say I thoroughly enjoy watching McCullum bat. He gives the ball a fearful whack doesnt he.