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Australia have come away from their first ODI with New Zealand having recorded a dominant victory, the better team by 68 runs on Sunday night.
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Final score
Australia 8/324
New Zealand 256
It is time to change out of the whites and into the coloured uniforms, as Australia get set to host their Trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand in a three-game series for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy. Join The Roar for live scores and a blog of the match from 2:20pm (AEDT).
After losing seven games consecutive games over two different formats to the South Africans – before picking up a consolation victory in the day-night Test in Adelaide – Australia will welcome the opportunity to face a different opponent.
New Zealand arrive on Australia’s shores fresh from a 2-0 home victory against Pakistan, however they come missing a few key contributors.
Star batsman Ross Taylor is absent due to recent eye surgery whilst big hitting all-rounder Corey Anderson and pacemen Adam Milne and Mitchell McClenaghan are all out injured.
The injuries to Taylor and Anderson will test the Kiwis’ batting depth while also adding to the already heavy batting loads for opener Martin Guptill and skipper Kane Williamson.
Conversely the Australians enter the contest at full strength and after a Test series in which batting was a weakness, the Aussies should boast a deep and dangerous batting line up in the shorter format.
With Aaron Finch and George Bailey shoring up the top order and the likes of Maxwell and Faulkner adding some punch to the lower order the Aussies should be posting some healthy totals in this series.
Australia will also have use of their preferred pace attack of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins for the first time in over a year. The damaging but injury prone quick returns to the national spotlight after last donning the canary yellow way back in September 2015 against England.
Despite not playing Shield cricket in nearly six years, there are rumblings that a dominant showing against the Black Caps could vault Cummins back into Test calculations as soon the upcoming Pakistan series.
Prediction
A rematch of the 2015 World Cup finalists should hold plenty of intrigue for cricket fans with the teams being fairly evenly matched.
But on a SCG pitch that is usually good for batting, look for the Aussies to break out of their 5-loss slump and put on a strong display of limited overs cricket against a Kiwi side missing a few key weapons.
Australia to cruise to victory.
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