Statistical Highlights – New Zealand vs Australia, 1st ODI

New Zealand has won the first ODI match against Australia which was played at Eden Park by 159 runs and started this last series of their captain named Brendon McCullum on a winning note. Australia won the toss and gave New Zealand a chance to bat first and both openers made most of that opportunity provided by Steven Smith and scored runs freely and due to help of Martin Guptill, Brendon McCullum and Henry Nicholas, New Zealand put up a total of 307 runs in 50 overs.

While chasing this total, Australia lost their six wickets inside 10 overs and this was the first time since 2002, they lost six wickets inside 10 overs but after that Wade and Faulkner added 79 runs but that did not help Australia that much and with the help of Trent Boult and Matt Henry, New Zealand won the first ODI match easily inside 25 overs.

Stats from the 1st ODI between New Zealand and Australia:

6008 – Number of Runs scored by Brendon McCullum in his ODI career which is third most by any New Zealand batsman in ODIs. Stephen Fleming (8007) and Nathan Astle (7090) are the other two batsmen to have scored more runs than Brendon McCullum in ODIs for New Zealand. In today’s match, Brendon McCullum scored 44 runs from 29 balls.

3^rd – Brendon McCullum became third New Zealand batsman who have score more than 6000 runs in ODIs. Stephen Fleming and Nathan Astle are other two batsmen who had scored more than 6000 runs for New Zealand in ODIs.

27 – Number of Sixes Brendon McCullum has hit in his career against Australia which is most by any other New Zealand batsman. Today, he hit 3 sixes against Australia in the 1^st ODI match played at Eden Park.

90 – Number of Fours Brendon McCullum has hit in his career against Australia which is second most by any other New Zealand batsman after Stephen Fleming who had hit 124 fours against Australia during his career. Along with Brendon McCullum, Nathan Astle had also hit 90 fours in his career against Australia.

13 – Number of Sixes hit by Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill throughout their careers as an opener of New Zealand cricket team against Australia which is fourth most by any other opening batsman after Rohit Sharma (43), Sachin Tendulkar (35) and Chris Gayle (20) against Australia as an opener. Today, Martin Guptill had hit five and Brendon McCullum had hit three sixes respectively in the first ODI match against Australia.

5 – Number of Sixes hit by Martin Guptill today in his innings of 90 runs which is second most by any New Zealand batsman in an innings of an ODI match against Australia. Craig McMilan had also hit five sixes against Australia in his innings of 117 runs on 20 February, 2007 at Hamilton. While Chris Cairns and Jacob are at the first place and hit six sixes against Australia once during their careers in an innings of an ODI match.

1 – Number of Times Kane Williamson has been out against Australia on duck in ODIs. Today, he scored duck against Australia in the first ODI match.

2 – Number of Times Mitchell Marsh has been out against New Zealand on duck in ODIs. Today, he scored duck against New Zealand in the first ODI match. He has played three innings against New Zealand in his career and already has two ducks to his name in ODIs.

12 – Number of Wickets taken by Trent Boult in this year in ODIs which is most by any other bowler in ODIs this year. He has picked up 12 wickets from 4 matches this year in ODIs. Today, in the first ODI match, he picked up three wickets against Australia.

146 – Number of balls that New Zealand took to bowl out Australia. This is the quickest (in terms of balls) that Australia has been dismissed in ODI cricket. Their previous lowest (in terms of balls) was 152 balls, against England in 1977.

159 – Number of runs by which Australia lost today’s match which is Australia’s second-biggest margin of defeat against New Zealand in ODIs. In 1985/86, Australia were bowled out for 70 and lost by 206 runs.

0 – Number of times that New Zealand have lost and ODI game after posting a score of more than 300. Out of the 18 times they posted a 300-plus score, they have won 17 of them.