Australia in New Zealand ODI Series - 1st ODI
Australia won by 7 wickets (with 70 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 1290 | 1997/98 season
- Played at Lancaster Park, Christchurch
- 8 February 1998 - day/night (50-over match)
| New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| LG Howell | b Robertson | 50 | 98 | 63 | 4 | 0 | 79.36 | |
| NJ Astle | b Moody | 23 | 36 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 67.64 | |
| AC Parore† | c Bevan b Robertson | 29 | 68 | 63 | 1 | 0 | 46.03 | |
| SP Fleming* | c & b Robertson | 2 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| CD McMillan | run out (Moody) | 4 | 18 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 21.05 | |
| CL Cairns | c Dale b SR Waugh | 16 | 37 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 47.05 | |
| CZ Harris | c Law b Moody | 38 | 66 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 88.37 | |
| DJ Nash | not out | 39 | 48 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| SB Doull | not out | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (lb 7, w 4) | 11 | ||||||
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| Total | (7 wickets; 50 overs) | 212 | (4.24 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat DL Vettori, SB O'Connor |
| Fall of wickets1-40 (Astle, 8.6 ov), 2-104 (Howell, 25.4 ov), 3-109 (Parore, 27.1 ov), 4-109 (Fleming, 27.3 ov), 5-119 (McMillan, 32.5 ov), 6-136 (Cairns, 38.4 ov), 7-202 (Harris, 49.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| P Wilson | 7 | 1 | 39 | 0 | 5.57 | (2w) | ||
| AC Dale | 8 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 4.25 | (1nb) | ||
| TM Moody | 8 | 2 | 36 | 2 | 4.50 | |||
| GR Robertson | 10 | 0 | 32 | 3 | 3.20 | |||
| SR Waugh | 10 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 2.40 | |||
| ME Waugh | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 6.33 | (2w) | ||
| SG Law | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 5.25 |
| Australia innings (target: 213 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | c Cairns b McMillan | 118 | 137 | 117 | 10 | 5 | 100.85 | |
| ME Waugh | c Nash b Vettori | 65 | 99 | 78 | 8 | 0 | 83.33 | |
| TM Moody | b McMillan | 17 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 121.42 | |
| RT Ponting | not out | 10 | 25 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| DS Lehmann | not out | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 1, w 1, nb 1) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (3 wickets; 38.2 overs) | 215 | (5.60 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MG Bevan, SG Law, SR Waugh*, GR Robertson, AC Dale, P Wilson |
| Fall of wickets1-146 (ME Waugh, 25.6 ov), 2-173 (Moody, 30.3 ov), 3-208 (Gilchrist, 36.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SB O'Connor | 4 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 7.75 | (1w) | ||
| SB Doull | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 6.25 | (2nb) | ||
| CL Cairns | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4.00 | |||
| CZ Harris | 8 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 5.37 | |||
| DL Vettori | 10 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 4.40 | |||
| NJ Astle | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 7.50 | |||
| CD McMillan | 6.2 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 6.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat Series Australia led the 4-match series 1-0 |
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Player of the match
AC Gilchrist (Australia) |
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Umpires
DB Cowie and DM Quested TV umpire AL Hill Match referee Hanumant Singh (India) |
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