New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2008–09

New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2008–09
		New Zealand		Australia
Dates		13 November 2008 – 15 February 2009
Captains		Daniel Vettori		Ricky Ponting
Test series
Result		Australia won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs		Ross Taylor (160)		Michael Clarke (217)
Most wickets		Iain O'Brien (7)		Mitchell Johnson (14)
Player of the series		Michael Clarke (Australia)
One Day International series
Result		5-match series drawn 2–2
Most runs		Grant Elliott (210)		Brad Haddin (283)
Most wickets		Iain O'Brien (10)		Nathan Bracken (9)
Player of the series		Michael Hussey (Australia)
Twenty20 series
Result		Australia won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs		Brendon McCullum (61)		David Hussey (41)
Most wickets		Iain O'Brien (2)		Peter Siddle (2)
Player of the series		Nathan Bracken (Australia)

The New Zealand cricket team toured Australia between 13 November 2008 and 15 February 2009. The tour was divided into two legs; commencing with a tour match against New South Wales, the first leg contained two Test matches between New Zealand and Australia in which the sides competed for the Trans Tasman Trophy.

New Zealand then went home for a series against the West Indies and Australia hosted the South African team. New Zealand returned to Australia on 29 January 2009 for the second leg, comprising a tour match against the Prime Minister's XI, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) against Australia for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy and a Twenty20 International also against Australia.

Australian cricket team

The Australian side had recently returned from a tour of India where they had lost the four-match Test series, and with it the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2-0. During that series, Australia had repeatedly fallen behind the required over rate; during the final match, captain Ricky Ponting used part-time bowlers to try to catch up rather than push for a victory, a move which was criticised by former captains.^[1]

New Zealand cricket team

Prior to this series, the New Zealand side had just completed a tour of Bangladesh, winning the test series 1-0 (with one test drawn after three days were lost to rain) and the one-day series 2-1. At the beginning of the test series, they were ranked seventh in the ICC Test Championship.^[2] Captain Daniel Vettori said that he "was leading the nucleus of a good side", but pointed out that the inexperienced batting lineup would face a tough task against an Australian side that would be looking to come back strongly from their series loss to India.^[3]

Squads

Test squads
Australia [4]	New Zealand[5]
Ricky Ponting (c)	Daniel Vettori (c)
Michael Clarke	Aaron Redmond
Stuart Clark	Jamie How
Brad Haddin	Jesse Ryder
Matthew Hayden	Ross Taylor
Michael Hussey	Peter Fulton
Mitchell Johnson	Daniel Flynn
Simon Katich	Brendon McCullum (wk)
Jason Krejza	Grant Elliott
Brett Lee	Gareth Hopkins
Peter Siddle	Tim Southee
Andrew Symonds	Iain O'Brien
Shane Watson	Kyle Mills
	Mark Gillespie
	Chris Martin

First leg

Tour match

13 November - 16 November Scorecard	New Zealanders 266 (85.3 overs)	v	New South Wales 361 (115.1 overs)	NSW won by 6 wickets Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia Umpires: Gerard Abood and Paul Reiffel
	Jamie How 170 (272) Grant Lambert 5/74 (16.3 overs)		Dominic Thornely 85 (153) Daniel Vettori 4/71 (29.1 overs)
	256 (86.1 overs)		162/4 (52.2 overs)
	Daniel Vettori 73 (139) Moisés Henriques 5/51 (19 overs)		Daniel Smith 42 (51) Chris Martin 3/16 (11 overs)

1st Test

20 November - 24 November Scorecard	Australia  214 (77 overs)	v	New Zealand 156 (50 overs)	Australia won by 149 runs The Gabba, Brisbane, Australia Umpires: Billy Doctrove and Rudi Koertzen Player of the Match: Mitchell Johnson
	Michael Clarke 98 (217) Tim Southee 4/63 (18 overs)		Ross Taylor 40 (51) Mitchell Johnson 4/30 (8 overs)
	268 (81.2 overs)		177 (54.3 overs)
	Simon Katich 131* (245) Chris Martin 3/69 (21 overs)		Ross Taylor 75 (128) Mitchell Johnson 5/39 (17.3 overs)
This match Brett Lee took his 300th wicket.

Brisbane had been hit hard with weeks worth of devastating storms, leaving the pitch soft and green. Both teams were returning from the sub-continent and struggled badly with the bat. Australia were all out for just 214 late on day one with Clarke last to go on 98 runs, NZ survived a few overs to finish 0/7 at stumps. The next morning began perfectly for Australia with a wicket on the first ball, and more kept coming. NZ collapsing to be all out for just 156 from 50 overs, Taylor the highest scorer on 50. Australia did not fare much better with Hayden out first ball and Australia limping to 6/131 at stumps on day 2. Katich managed to score 100 and he ended running out of partners finishing not out on 131, seeing Australia to 268. Needing 327 runs to win, NZ got a terrible start and were 4-49 until a good partnership between Flynn and Taylor. However Australia managed two late wicket, one on the very last ball of the day! putting NZ at 6/143 at stumps on day 3.

2nd Test

28 November - 2 December Scorecard	New Zealand  270 (98.3 overs)	v	Australia 535 (157.4 overs)	Australia won by an innings and 62 runs Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia Umpires: Billy Doctrove and Rudi Koertzen Player of the Match: Brad Haddin
	Aaron Redmond 83 (125) Brett Lee 4/66 (25.3 overs)		Brad Haddin 169 (222) Michael Clarke 110 (239) Iain O'Brien 3/111 (32 overs)
	203 (74.1 overs)
	Brendan McCullum 84* (134) Brett Lee 5/105 (25 overs)

The scoreboard near the start of Day 1 of the second Test.

Following the first Test, the Australians called Peter Siddle into the squad with Shane Watson returning to state cricket.^[6] Jason Krejza was named in the team after having been twelfth man in the first Test; however, he twisted his ankle in training two days prior to the start of the match and his place was taken by fellow spin bowler Nathan Hauritz.^[7]

On the Tuesday before the match began, New Zealand Cricket announced the appointment of Andy Moles as successor of retiring coach John Bracewell. Moles was to take over immediately following the Australian Test series, meaning this was Bracewell's final match in charge of the New Zealand side.^[8] The only change to the New Zealand team was Peter Fulton replacing Grant Elliott in an attempt to bolster the batting lineup.^[9]

Second leg

Tour match

29 January 2009 Scorecard	New Zealand 271/5 (50 overs)	v	Prime Minister's XI 272/4 (47.5 overs)	Prime Minister's XI won by 6 wickets Manuka Oval, Canberra, Australia Umpires: IG Lock and Y Ramasundara Player of the match: George Bailey
	Brendon McCullum 114 (130 balls) Clinton McKay 3/52 (10 overs)		George Bailey 107* (138 balls) Jeetan Patel 2/51 (10 overs)

1st ODI

1 February 2009 Scorecard	Australia  181 (48.4 overs)	v	New Zealand 182/8 (50 overs)	New Zealand won by 2 wickets on the last ball WACA, Perth, Australia Att: 14,571 Umpires: Steve Bucknor and Bruce Oxenford Player of the match: Kyle Mills
	Michael Hussey 49 (65 balls) Kyle Mills 4/35 (9.4 overs)		Ross Taylor 64 (97 balls) Nathan Bracken 3/35 (10 overs)

Australia's top order capitulated with none of the top five scoring over 15 runs. There was some resistance from Hussey and Haddin, but ultimately Australia were unable to bat out the innings, running out of wickets and posting a very low score. Australia did however put the pressure on with the ball and for most of the chase New Zealand was behind Australia score at the same points in time. Michael Clarke clean-bowled a batsman but replays showed that the bails were dislodged by Haddin's gloves, which were in front of the stumps. The loss was Australia's fourth consecutive ODI loss, having just been defeated 1–4 against South Africa.

2nd ODI

6 February 2009 Scorecard	Australia  225/5 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 226/4 (48.5 overs)	New Zealand won by 6 wickets Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia Attendance: 28,267 Umpires: Steve Bucknor & Paul Reiffel Player of the match: Michael Clarke
	Michael Clarke 98 (133 balls) Iain O'Brien 2/48 (10 overs)		Grant Elliott 61* (75 balls) James Hopes 2/30 (10 overs)

3rd ODI

8 February 2009 Scorecard	Australia  301/9 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 269 (47.3 overs)	Australia won by 32 runs Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia Umpires: Steve Bucknor (West Indies) and Simon Taufel (Australia) Player of the match: Brad Haddin
	Brad Haddin 109 (114 balls) Iain O'Brien 3/68 (10 overs)		Grant Elliott 115 (124 balls) Cameron White 2/10 (2 overs)

Australia could have scored 303, but 2 penalty runs were not awarded because the Australian batsmen ran down the pitch (as opposed to beside the pitch, which is the rule) again after being warned not to by the umpire. The rule no runs are obtained from a delivery (ball) if a batsman runs down the pitch.

4th ODI

10 February 2009 Scorecard	New Zealand  244/8 (50 overs)	v	Australia 247/4 (48.2 overs)	Australia won by 6 wickets. Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) & Steve Davis (AUS) Player of the match: David Hussey
	Ross Taylor 76 (71) Mitchell Johnson 3/51 (10 overs)		David Hussey 79 (96) Iain O'Brien 2/54 (10 overs)

5th ODI

13 February 2009 Scorecard	Australia  168/4 (22 overs)	v	New Zealand 123/6 (14 overs)	No result. Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Australia Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) & James Tucker (AUS)
	Brad Haddin 88* (65) Kyle Mills 2/22 (4 overs)		Martin Guptill 63* (34) Nathan Bracken 2/33 (3 overs)

Rain caused the match to be reduced to 22 overs. The New Zealand innings was further reduced to 20 overs. Heavy rain caused the match to be abandoned when New Zealand were 123.

Twenty20

15 February 2009 Scorecard	Australia  150/7	v	New Zealand 149/5	Australia won by 1 run Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia Umpires: B N J Oxenford, P R Reiffel Player of the match: Nathan Bracken
	David Hussey 41 (39 balls) Iain O'Brien 2/34 (4 overs)		Brendon McCullum 61 (47 balls) Peter Siddle 2/24 (4 overs)

Gallery

• Photos from the tour
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  Aaron Redmond hitting a six off Nathan Hauritz in the second Test (photo 1 of 3).

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  Aaron Redmond hitting a six off Nathan Hauritz in the second Test (photo 2 of 3).

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  Aaron Redmond hitting a six off Nathan Hauritz in the second Test (photo 3 of 3).

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  Brett Lee bowling (photo 1 of 5).

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  Brett Lee bowling (photo 2 of 5).

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  Brett Lee bowling (photo 3 of 5).

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  Brett Lee bowling (photo 4 of 5).

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  Brett Lee bowling (photo 5 of 5).

References

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2. ^ Geenty, Mark (2008-11-12). "Vettori to take Oram's role". NZPA. The Dominion Post. http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4758109a6033.html. Retrieved 2008-12-02. 
3. ^ Geenty, Mark (2008-11-11). "Vettori shifts up, Southee set for recall". NZPA. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4757707a1823.html. Retrieved 2008-12-02. 
4. ^ "Team Announcements". Cricket Australia. http://www.cricket.com.au/default.aspx?s=team-announcements. Retrieved 2008-11-20. 
5. ^ "BLACKCAPS squad for first test against Australia". New Zealand Cricket. 2008-11-06. http://www.blackcaps.co.nz/news/international/1/blackcaps-squad-for-first-test-against-australia/4306/article.aspx. Retrieved 2008-11-20. 
6. ^ Brown, Alex (2008-11-24). "Watson out in horses for courses". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/watson-out-in-horses-for-courses/2008/11/23/1227375062248.html?page=fullpage. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
7. ^ Brown, Alex (2008-11-28). "Tweak in, tweak out - Hauritz gets his turn". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/hauritz-gets-his-turn/2008/11/27/1227491735348.html?page=fullpage. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
8. ^ New Zealand Cricket (2008-11-25). "BLACKCAPS Coach appointed". New Zealand Cricket. http://www.blackcaps.co.nz/news/blackcaps-coach-appointed/4392/article.aspx. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
9. ^ Coverdale, Brydon (2008-11-27). "McCullum moves down to fit in Fulton at No. 5". Cricinfo. http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ausvnz2008/content/story/379824.html. Retrieved 2008-12-03.