New Zealand beat Australia in the superover eliminator in the second Twenty20

AMI Stadium, Christchurch
February 28, 2010

New Zealand beat Australia in a thrilling super over eliminator in the second Twenty20. The series is drawn at 1-1. Winning the toss and batting first, New Zealand scored a massive 214/6 in their twenty overs. Brendon McCullum scored the second century in the history of Twenty20 Internationals and fell short by 1 run to level the highest Twenty20 International twenty20 score set by Chris Gayle at 117. In reply, Australia scored 214 and the match was tied. Michael Clarke 67(45) and Cameron White 64*(26) added 82 runs for the fourth wicket. The match went to the Superover eliminator. Tim Southee gave just 6 runs and New Zealand reached the Superover eliminator target with 2 balls to spare.

Scorecard

New Zealand vs Australia - Second Twenty20 International
AMI Stadium, Christchurch
February 28, 2010
Day/Night match

Result: New Zealand won in the superover eliminator
Toss: New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat first.
Twenty20 series drawn 1-1
Player of the match: Brendon McCullum

New Zealand Innings		Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR
Brendon McCullum	not out	116	56	12	8	207.14
Peter Ingram	b Shaun Tait	0	2	0	0	0.00
Martin Guptill	c Steven Smith b Ryan Harris	17	17	3	0	100.00
Ross Taylor	run out (Cameron White / Brad Haddin)	6	9	1	0	66.66
James Franklin	c Michael Clarke b Steven Smith	7	8	1	0	87.50
Gareth Hopkins	hit wicket Dirk Nannes	36	17	3	2	211.76
Jacob Oram	b Shaun Tait	0	3	0	0	0.00
Nathan McCullum	not out	14	9	1	1	155.55
Daniel Vettori
Shane Bond
Tim Southee
Extras	lb 12, w 5, nb 1	18
		214 / 6 (20.0 overs)

Fall of Wickets
1-10 (Ingram, 0.6 ov)	2-62 (Guptill, 6.2 ov)
3-69 (Taylor, 8.5 ov)	4-77 (Franklin, 10.2 ov)
5-145 (Hopkins, 15.2 ov)	6-164 (Oram, 16.4 ov)

	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Economy	Extras
Shaun Tait	4.0	0	40	2	10.00	1nb, 3w
Dirk Nannes	4.0	0	51	1	12.75
Ryan Harris	4.0	1	40	1	10.00	1w
David Hussey	3.0	0	21	0	7.00
Steven Smith	3.0	0	24	1	8.00
Daniel Christian	2.0	0	26	0	13.00

Australia Innings		Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR
David Warner	c Tim Southee b Shane Bond	20	10	3	1	200.00
Brad Haddin	c Peter Ingram b James Franklin	47	36	4	2	130.55
Michael Clarke	run out (Nathan McCullum / Tim Southee)	67	45	5	2	148.88
David Hussey	b James Franklin	10	6	2	0	166.66
Cameron White	not out	64	26	5	5	246.15
Travis Birt
Steven Smith
Daniel Christian
Ryan Harris
Shaun Tait
Dirk Nannes
Extras	lb 1, w 2, nb 3	6
		214 / 4 (20.0 overs)

Fall of Wickets
1-27 (Warner, 2.3 ov)	2-100 (Haddin, 11.1 ov)
3-132 (Hussey, 13.3 ov)	4-214 (Clarke, 19.6 ov)

	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Economy	Extras
Shane Bond	4.0	27	1	6.75
Tim Southee	4.0	44	0	11.00	1w
Jacob Oram	4.0	52	0	13.00	2nb, 1w
Daniel Vettori	4.0	41	0	10.25
James Franklin	3.0	32	2	10.66	1nb
Nathan McCullum	1.0	17	0	17.00

Umpires	,
TV Umpire
Match Referee
Reserve Umpire

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