Australia vs New Zealand statistical highlights: ICC Champions Trophy 2013

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – JUNE 12: Rain interupts play during the ICC Champions Trophy Group A match between Australia and New Zealand at Edgbaston

In what turned out to be a damp squib, Australia posted a competitive score of 243/8. In reply, New Zealand were 51/2 in 15 overs before rain played spoilsport and the game had to be called off.

Statistical highlights of this match

# Australia and New Zealand were meeting for the 4th time in ICC Champions Trophy. Australia had beaten New Zealand all the times before.

# They were playing their first ODI since their match in ICC World Cup 2011 at Nagpur.

# Australia and New Zealand were playing their 125th ODI match together. Only other 3 pair of teams to play 125+ matches are 139 – India vs Sri Lanka, 135 – Australia vs West Indies and 132 – Sri Lanka vs Pakistan.

# This was their 3rd match in England.

Australian innings

# Philip Hughes registered the first duck of his ODI career in his 11th innings.

# George Bailey scored 55(91) which is his 6th half-century in ODIs, and his 3rd as captain in 5 games.

# George Bailey also scored 55(69) against England in the previous game.

# Adam Voges scored his 3rd ODI fifty. He scored 77(76). This is his highest score in ICC Champions Trophy after his 15 runs in the first match against England.

# Mitchell Marsh achieved his highest score in ODIs with 22(22) in his 3rd ODI. In his first two ODI matches he scored 8*(5) and 5(12).

# Mitchell McClenaghan completed 25 wickets in his ODI career in his 9th match.

# Mitchell McClenaghan is the fastest bowler to reach 25 wickets in ODIs. He overcame Ottis Gibson and Ajantha Mendis, who got their 25th wicket in 10th ODI.

# Mitchell McClenaghan finished with 4/65 in his 10 overs. This is his 4th 4-wicket haul in ODIs and 2nd consecutive in this ICC Champions Trophy. He is only the second bowler after Douglas Hondo in 2002 to take 2 4-wicket hauls in an edition of ICC Champions Trophy.

# Mitchell McClenaghan is the 4th bowler to take a 4 wickets against Australia in ICC Champions Trophy.

# 4/65 by Mitchell McClenaghan are the second best bowling figures by a Kiwi bowler at Edgbaston after Chris Pringle’s 5/45 in 1994.

# Australia’s 243/8 in 50 overs is their highest total against New Zealand in England, overtaking their 213/8 at Cardiff in 1999.

New Zealand innings

# Luke Ronchi played 4 ODIs for Australia in 2008, and he was playing against Australia in this match.

# Clint McKay dismissed both the opener Guptill and Ronchi and had figures of 2/10 in 4 overs.

# Rain stopped the play after the 15th over when the score was 51/2.

# Match could never begin again and was called off. Each team was rewarded a point each.

# This is the 4th abandoned match in ICC Champions Trophy. Other 3 were 2 Finals of ICC Champions Trophy 2002 between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo and India vs Australia at Centurion in 2009.

Australia needed to win this game, but they could only get one point. Now for Australia to enter the semi-finals

In Eng vs SL, SL should win

In SL vs Aus, Aus should win

In Eng vs NZ, NZ should win

New Zealand are not into semis yet. If they win their last game against England, they will be in the semis without any doubt.