Match 8 – Australia Vs New Zealand at Nagpur

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  1. Ricky Ponting (12) has so far scored just 40 runs in this World cup edition that included just one hit to the boundary and he has faced 64 deliveries for those runs as well. Quite an uncharacteristic beginning to the Australian captain, this World cup.
  2. Ponting also was dismissed in a bizarre fashion, stumped to a fast bowler (Southee).
  3. Shaun Tait (3-35) continues to have a good run in World cups and has now claimed 28 wickets in 13 matches. Outside World cups, Tait has claimed the equal amount of wickets (28) in 17 matches. He has now claimed 5 wickets in this World cup edition so far.
  4. Mitchell Johnson (4-33) has now claimed 4 wickets in each of his first two World cup matches, which makes him the leading wicket-taker in the tournament so far with 8 wickets for just 52 runs. Johnson also becomes only the third Australian bowler to claim four or more wickets in consecutive World cup matches, others in the list being Gary Gilmour and Shane Warne.
  5. With more than 400 runs scored, the match overall witnessed a rare sequence of a lone spinner claiming just 1 of the 13 wickets that fell in the match overall (Smith : 1 – 44).
  6. Shane Watson (62) has now scored fifties in 4 of his last 5 one day internationals. Watson also scored the only sixer in the entire match.
  7. Hamish Bennett and Tim Southee were once again the only New Zealand bowlers among the wickets. They claimed all the three Australian wickets between them and the duo along with Oram claimed all 10 Kenyan wickets in just 13.5 overs between them in the previous match.
  8. Hamish Bennett has now claimed 20 wickets in 10 one day internationals.
  9. Australia almost had history repeat when a lower order batsman top scoring against them. Cremer (Zimbabwe) top scored coming in at number 9 in their previous match, while Nathan McCullum top scored for New Zealand with a 52, coming in to bat at number 8.
  10. MG Johnson is the third Australian bowler to capture four or more wickets in consecutive games after GJ Gilmour and SK Warne
  11. This half century is also Nathan’s career third and the three have been scored this year.
  12. Michael Clarke achieved a career millstone of  6000 runs in limited overs cricket, becoming the ninth Australian to enter this bracket.

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