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11:30 PM local time (4:00 PM IST): New Zealand great Sir Richard Hadlee presents the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy to Mitchell Marsh and his Australian team to cap off the series. That will be all from the Bay Oval for what has been a good, hard-fought series between two good teams, all be it that one game had to be washed out! Now, you can switch your attention to the Women's World Cup happening in the Indian sub-continent. The match between Australia Women and Sri Lanka Women in Colombo is just about to get underway, so you can click here and continue following our live coverage of the prestigious tournament. This is Bidipto taking your leave. Keep following Sportskeeda!
Mitchell Marsh (Australia captain): "At times when you are chasing 160, it does feel as though you better get it over and done with. But we made it tough for ourselves. Anyway, it's good to win, especially away! It wasn't easy to bat on up front but once the ball lost its hardness, it got better. All teams are getting ready for the World Cup and so are we, but this kind of a performance, keeping quite a few things in mind, is a top effort."
Michael Bracewell (New Zealand captain): "We have to take our hats off to Mitchell Marsh! He was the reason for this result! The pitch was under cover for a couple of days and that didn't make batting any easier. So, we got a competitive score on the board. After that, we fought right till the end. Just needed to get Mitch out! I think we can do with a longer series in this format, because our cricket is heading in the right direction."
Mitchell Marsh (Player of the Match, 103* off 52 balls): "Loved the innings, great to get the win! It was a scrappy game, we did make heavy weather of things, but got over the line and that's all that matters! I was lucky I would say!"
11:22 PM local time (3:52 PM IST): Time for the post-match presentation.
11:15 PM local time (3:45 PM IST): Australia win by 3 wickets with 2 overs to spare and take the 3-match series 2-0!
Mitchell Marsh 103* (52) | Sean Abbott - 3/25 (4) Tim Seifert 48 (35) | JImmy Neesham - 4/26 (4)
A sensational captain's knock from Mitchell Marsh! A hundred, remaining unbeaten and with a scorecard in which the second highest score is 14! The surface was not the easiest to bat on by any means and that got backed up by New Zealand picking up as many as 7 wickets! Marsh did all this after facing the first ball of the innings! Simple unbelievable and perhaps one of the greatest T20I knocks of all time has just been played, that too, to win a series! And if all these are not enough, it has been done away from home!
Jimmy Neesham put it a tremendous effort and took 4 key wickets. Mark Chapman led the way in the field with two superb catches and overall, the Blackcaps backed up the bowling with their fielding, as expected, but were unable to get rid of one man - Mitchell Marsh! No other batter found it easy going out there but Sean Abbott holding firm right towards the end helped his captain, big time! He too has had a good match!
A proper contest between bat and ball was witnesses tonight but Australia, thanks to their skipper, got the job done under pressure!
18
overs
160/7score
2
1
0
1
1
4
runs
Sean Abbott*
13(7)
Mitchell Marsh
103(52)
Jacob Duffy
2/29
17.6 Jacob Duffy to Sean Abbott, AUSTRALIA TAKE THE SERIES! On the good length around off-stump. Abbott hangs back and pats it through cover point to pick the gap and send it to the boundary to win the match!
17.5 Jacob Duffy to Mitchell Marsh, short on off-stump. Marsh picks length early and pulls it over mid-wicket for a single to the man in the deep. Scores are level.
17.4 Jacob Duffy to Sean Abbott, short and slow around off-stump. Pulled down to the long-leg area off the back foot for a single to rotate strike.
17.3 Jacob Duffy to Sean Abbott, short outside off-stump. Abbott gets on top of the bounce and cuts it straight to backward point. No run.
17.2 Jacob Duffy to Mitchell Marsh, full on off-and-middle. Drilled down to long-on from the slight forward press for a single here.
Mitchell Marsh Scored 101 runs in 50 balls
17.1 Jacob Duffy to Mitchell Marsh, HUNDRED FOR MITCHELL MARSH! WHAT A KNOCK THIS HAS BEEN! Short around off-stump and accurate. The pull shot on the backfoot got top-edged but there was no one at fine-leg! Two runs pouched to complete a well-deserved century!
17
overs
151/7score
1
1
6
1
4
2
runs
Sean Abbott*
8(4)
Mitchell Marsh
99(49)
Jimmy Neesham
4/26
16.6 Jimmy Neesham to Sean Abbott, short around off-stump. Punched away to the deep cover point area's left off the backfoot, for a couple of runs.
16.5 Jimmy Neesham to Sean Abbott, FOUR IMPORTANT RUNS! Short and slow on off-stump. Abbott got in line and helped it away off the backfoot with the roll of the wrists, down to long-leg!
16.4 Jimmy Neesham to Mitchell Marsh, wide outside off-stump on the good length. Carved on the up to the deep cover area for a single on this occasion! Marsh on 99!
16.3 Jimmy Neesham to Mitchell Marsh, SIX RUNS! Well-directed short ball on off-stump. Marsh gets on to the back foot and pulls it. But even if he doesn't get hold of it, he manages to clear deep square-leg!
16.2 Jimmy Neesham to Sean Abbott, back of a length on off-and-middle. Abbott tucks it around to deep square-leg off the back foot for a single.
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Sean Abbott
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Jacob Duffy
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