New Zealand vs Australia Match Stats

Goes fuller on off, Daryl Mitchell gets across a bit and tucks it to the on side.

Floats it up on off, Daryl Mitchell prods ahead and blocks it well.

Turns it in from leg, Daryl Mitchell leaves it alone for the keeper to collect it.

FOUR! Takes him on this time and gets a nice boundary. Lyon bowls it from over the wicket and pitches it fuller around off, Daryl Mitchell gets down the track and smokes it straight over mid on for a boundary. 

Fuller on off, Daryl Mitchell reaches it and sweeps it square of the wicket on leg for a single.

SIX! Oh, hello! Where has that come from? Matt Henry continues his fine touch from the first innings. Lyon gets this nice and full around off, Matt Henry shimmies down the track and whacks it straight over the bowler's head for a biggie. 

Bangs it on a length over off, Daryl Mitchell punches it past cover for a single.

On a good length, on off, Matt Henry punches it straight to cover.

Hurls it in on a good length over middle and leg, Matt Henry pushes it to mid on. 

OUT! CAUGHT! Josh Hazlewood adds one against his name and a brief cameo from Matt Henry comes to an end. Bowls this one on a good length outside off, Matt Henry goes for the push through covers with hard hands and ends up getting a thick outside edge to Steven Smith at second slip who takes a good catch around his face. 

Goes fuller on off, Tim Southee drives it straight to mid off.

Gets off the mark with a quick single. On a length around off, Tim Southee just taps it to left of cover and steals a run.

Drops the length a bit around middle and leg, Tim Southee rides back and tucks it to the on side. 

How did that miss the stumps? Bowls it nice and full on off and gets the ball to turn back in sharply and it sneaks past the the inside edge and goes over the stumps.

SIX! That's tonked over the fence. Tossed up on off, Tim Southee frees his arms and whacks it down town over long off for half a dozen. 

Fuller and turning back in from middle, Tim Southee blocks it off the back foot. 

OUT! CAUGHT! Australia just one wicket away now as Nathan Lyon gets his sixth. Bowls it fuller and gives the ball air over middle and off, Tim Southee makes a bit of room and slogs it high in the air to long on. His bottom hand comes off the bat as the ball connects and only manages to get the elevation and not the distance. Mitchell Starc stays deep near the fence and takes a very simple catch at long on. 

Fuller on off, William O'Rourke prods ahead and blocks it to the off side.

Lands it on a length over off, Daryl Mitchell offers a solid front foot defence. 

On a length over off, Daryl Mitchell taps it to mid on. 

Doesn't take the run! Hazlewood bangs it short over middle, Daryl Mitchell rolls his wrists and pulls it nicely to deep backward square leg. 

Takes the single now. On a back of a length over off, Daryl Mitchell punches it to sweeper cover and gets to the other side.

Bangs it short over off, William O'Rourke half ducks at it and leaves it alone. 

Bowls it on a fuller length outside off, William O'Rourke leaves it alone. 

Goes fuller just outside off, Daryl Mitchell reverse sweeps it to short third man but doesn't take the run. 

Shorter and wider on off, Daryl Mitchell gets closer and clips it to short leg.

On a fuller length and around middle, Daryl Mitchell tucks it to backward short leg.

A tad shorter on middle and leg, Daryl Mitchell rocks back and tucks it to deep square leg for a single. 

 With the field all in, Lyon tosses it up on middle and off, William O'Rourke blocks it well to short leg.

Goes fuller and into middle and off, William O'Rourke blocks it nicely to the on side. 

That's almost a run but not a run! Bowls it on a length around off, Daryl Mitchell tucks it in front of deep backward point and both batters set off for the run. They cross each other midway and then decide to withdraw the run as they scamper back.  

On a length, on off, Daryl Mitchell punches it to deep point.

Drops the length and hits the deck hard over off, Daryl Mitchell nails the pull straight to the fielder at deep square leg. 

OUT! CAUGHT AND BOWLED! That's it, Australia win by 172 runs and get an unassailable lead in the series going 1-0 ahead. Hazlewood bangs it just short of a length over off, at 135.9 kph, Daryl Mitchell goes for the big pull but is a bit too late on it. The ball comes off the upper half of the bat and loops straight up towards Josh Hazlewood who in his follow-through gets ahead and takes the easiest of catches to wrap things up.