The boys over at Sportsfreak take the trev barry trophy seriously.
So here is their recall of last years events. Unedited, which was hard to do with blatant anti victorian sentiments in it.
We’ve done this before.
So here we are then, New Zealand are about to start their defence of the Chappell – Hadlee series . In case you had forgotten, New Zealand beat Australia 3-0 earlier this year.
That’s right, New Zealand whitewashed Australia 3-0 earlier this year. That is why New Zealand are the current holders of the Chappell-Hadlee trophy.
It is generally believed that NZ may struggle to hold onto this trophy in games throughout Australia and Hobart over the next week, but Sportsfreak has been looking back on the spanking from earlier in the year and think we really have a good chance. The facts are plain to see.
Lets rewind to the events of February 2007. First of all it was the opener in Wellington, and a 10 wicket pants-down hammering
And what a match that was; Shane Bond terrorising the Australian batsmen on a green-top, and flinging himself around with no fear of injury to take a sensational caught-and-bowled on his way to a 5 wicket bag; the visitors limping to a total of just over 150. Yup, Bond sure has the wood on the Aussies.
And then Stephen Fleming, probably the best OODI captain in the game, and an in-form Vincent cruised to an easy victory without loss. It’s worth noting that neither Ponting nor Gilly got any runs.
Then it was off to Auckland. This time Australia did get runs (although once again nothing to speak of from Ponting and Gilly), in fact they scored over 300 of them. This was always going to be tough, but Ross Taylor showed his class on low, slow pitches to pummel his way to a century. He was ably assisted by Peter Fulton and Craig McMillan, genuine world-class batsmen in this form of the game.
Cameron White helped out too, by bowling 3 overs in which time he got the ball to land once. Proof that New Zealand can handle the best bowlers Australia has to offer.
Off to Hamilton it was for Australia to regain some pride – and it was here that New Zealand showed its more charitable side. We let Hayden play himself back into form (something NZ did all season in fact) by knocking up over 180 as Australia once again went well past 300.
And then NZ thought they’d make it interesting by reducing itself to 40/4 in the chanse. But once again Fulton changed the course of the innings before Macca once again turned the screws in hammering his way to a century.
A memorable victory was sealed, and the 3-0 scoreline was completed.
So there you have it. It was a comprehensive wiping of the floor Ponting and Gilly were ineffectual and Brett Lee went wicketless. They are regarded as the back-bone of the Australian team, but Fleming, Macca, Bond, Fulton and co had no problem.
We really can not see why it should be different this time around.
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