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Australia vs New Zealand Scorecard, 5th T20I, New Zealand vs Australia 2021
Result · Mar 07 2021, Sun - 04:30 AM (IST)
5th T20I, - Sky Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand
AUSTRALIA142/8
NEW ZEALAND143/3
New Zealand won by 7 wickets
CRR:9.23
Player Of The Match
Player Of The Series
Match Info
| Series: | Australia in New Zealand 2021 |
| Date: | Mar 07 2021, Sun - 04:30 AM (IST) |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| City: | Wellington |
| Venue: | Sky Stadium |
| Toss: | Australia won the toss and elected to bat. |
| New Zealand Playing XI: | Martin Guptill, Devon Conway, Kane Williamson (c), Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Jimmy Neesham, Tim Seifert (wk), Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Trent Boult |
| Australia Playing XI: | Matthew Wade (wk), Aaron Finch (c), Josh Philippe, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Marsh, Ashton Agar, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa, Riley Meredith |
- Australia have won their last two men's T20I matches against New Zealand and will now look to secure a series victory; they suffered back-to-back multi-game men's T20I bilateral series defeats ahead of this sequence of games (England in September 2020 and India during December 2020).
- The first four matches of this men's T20I series between New Zealand and Australia have been won by teams successfully defending a total; New Zealand have won only three of their last seven matches overall when they have batted first (T1 L3), Australia have won six of their last eight (L2).
- New Zealand have lost their last three men's T20Is in a row at Sky Stadium in Wellington - including a defeat to India in a Super Over - which is as many as they had lost in all their 11 matches at the venue prior.
- Australia have won the toss in six of their last seven men's T20Is played away from home, they have gone on to win only three of those games (L4); they have won all three of their men's T20Is at Sky Stadium, however.
- Australia managed to record four sixes at the death last time out (5 March 2021); the most they have struck from the 17th over onwards in a men's T20I since 6th September 2016 (five against Sri Lanka).
- Martin Guptill (New Zealand) has smashed 36 runs from eight short balls faced in this series against Australia, 11 more than any other player; in fact, he has been dismissed by a short delivery only once in his last 11 T20I innings.
- Tim Southee (New Zealand) is two wickets shy of going past Shakib Al Hasan (92) into third for the most taken in men's T20Is; however, he comes into this match on the back of failing to record a dismissal for the first time in eight innings.
- Marcus Stoinis (Australia) has a batting strike rate of 185.7 from his 28 balls faced versus spin in this series, the highest of any player to have faced at least six balls against spinners across the four previous encounters.
- Aaron Finch (Australia) logged an unbeaten 79 runs to secure victory for Australia in the fourth match of this series against New Zealand; he now needs just 26 runs to eclipse Shoaib Malik (2,335) and Mohammad Hafeez (2,323) and become the outright fourth-most prolific run-scorer in men's T20I history.
- Australia's Aaron Finch has scored 59 versus Kyle Jamieson (New Zealand) in this series, 14 more than any other batsman has managed to post against a bowler; the Kiwi has failed to dismiss the Australian captain in that time.