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Match Details
AUS vs NZ, 3rd ODI, AUS vs NZ 2022 live
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242-10(49.5)
Australia won by 25 runs 🏆
AUS
(50.0)267-5
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Well that's all from us folks! Thank you for joining us for this incredible encounter! I am Anirudh, signing off on behalf of my co-commentators Hitesh and Tugral, and our scorer/analyst Dushyant! See you on the next one!
And Aaron Finch for one last time as Australia's ODI Captain and Player celebrates the series win with this team mates!
Aaron Finch (Australia Captain): "The teamwork of Steve and Marnus was outstanding, and it was fantastic to reach 260 after one of the sluggish starts. We have bowled well, and everyone has contributed. Pretty good; happy that I no longer desire to field 50 overs. I will always be grateful to my family for all they have sacrificed to help me achieve everything I have. It's a rapid turnaround because we have a picture shoot in Sydney tomorrow and travel to India the following day. There are just so many people I want to thank for supporting me ever since club cricket. My wife and kids have stuck by me through all of my ups and downs, and I couldn't be more grateful. I'll always be appreciative of them."
Kane Williamson(New Zealand Captain): "Slightly improved but Australia showed their quality. They deserve the series they played exceptionally well, for us there were glimpses where we were good, but it's frustrating. We need to get used to the conditions. Today we have learned a lot from Australia.Special congratulations to the Finch for exceptional service to ODI cricket."
Steve Smith | Player of the Match & Series: "You always want to contribute to the team and their success. It was nice to contribute a few today, it was difficult at the start, but it got easier, it was also nice to have a few partnerships in the middle. I've always liked batting freely and I have enjoyed that. Aaron Finch has been huge to this team over the past 10 years, he is one hell of a cricketer and he should be very proud of himself."
Time for the post match presentation.
Aaron Finch leads his team walking back to the pavilion🙌. Aaron Finch heads back and greets his family members as he gets a standing ovation from the crowd. He had an Illustrious ODI career, he scored 5406 runs in his 146 matches with an average of 38.89.
AUSTRALIA WHITE WASH NEW ZEALAND IN THE 3-MATCH ODI SERIES! A game that went down to the wire but resulted in elation for Aaron Finch and massive disappointment for Kane Williamson.
Aaron Finch's last ever innings in ODI cricket was an underwhelming one with the inswinging length delivery being the culprit again. Josh Inglis too lost his wicket early as Australia found themselves reeling after 5.4 overs. Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne then took the matters into their own hands, as the eccentric batters stitched together a partnership of 118 runs with Marnus going on to smash a half-century while Steve Smith ended up with his 12th ODI Ton.
Late innings charge from Alex Carey and Cameron Green saw Australia cross the 265 run-mark and put up a total of 267/5 from their 50 overs. Trent Boult was the pick of the bowlers as he picked up 2/25 from his full quota of 10 overs while Southee, Ferguson, and Santner chipped in with one wicket each.
The chase kicked off in dominant fashion for the Kiwis with Finn Allen and Devon Conway scoring at a decent pace to establish an opening partnership of 49 runs before Devon Conway lost his wicket to a close catch from Steve Smith. Soon after that Australia started picking up wickets at regular intervals as all batters got off to start but failed to get beyond Phillips' high score of 47 runs off 53 balls.
Sean Abbott was the pick of the bowlers for the Kangaroos as his tight bowling stopped the flow of runs and even picked up 2 wickets to add to that. Cameron Green too picked up crucial wickets of Finn Allen and Jimmy Neesham to ensure Kiwis never got their feet cemented in the chase. While Mitchell Starc did the clean-up job at the end to pick up 3/60 from 9.5 overs.
In the end, Aaron Finch got a perfect farewell gift with a 3-0 series win! All the best to him in other formats and the beginning of life in retirement!
Kane Williamson on the other hand will go back to his drawing board along with his coaching staff to identify the kinks that led to a disappointing series loss for New Zealand.
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