Australia captain David Warner on New Zealand winning the toss and batting first: "We would have done the same. The way we've been playing, it's probably working in our favour at the moment."

On the pitch, where 488 runs were scored in the group game between the sides: "It looks the same 22 yards as the last game."

Here are the two teams and there is plenty of firepower in both:

New Zealand: Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Kane Williamson (c), Mark Chapman, Ross Taylor, Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Seifert (wk), Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Trent Boult.

Australia: David Warner (c), Aaron Finch, D'Arcy Short, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Alex Carey (wk), Ashton Agar, Andrew Tye, Kane Richardson, Billy Stanlake.

Umpires: Chris Brown, Wayne Knights.

TV umpire: Shaun Haig; match referee: Javagal Srinath.

New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson has won the toss and chosen to bat first.

Those kits are horrible, though, aren't they? I keep being told that Australian colour is dark green but what happened to the famous canary yellow, sorry, Australian gold? And that New Zealand effort is just as bad, can't imagine anyone will be wearing either of these in 15 years. I hope not anyway. But let's not concern ourselves with this now, we're ready for the toss.

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Back to the present day and Australia have won all four of their matches, beating the Kiwis on this Eden Park ground last time out by reaching their target of 244 with seven balls to spare, a new T20 international record chase.David Warner (below) and D'Arcy Short compiled an opening stand of 121 in 8.3 overs. There were 32 sixes and 33 fours in that match so let's hope we see plenty more entertainment today.

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Ricky Ponting blasted five sixes in 98 from 55 balls in that match to help Australia to 214-5, with New Zealand, sporting a retro beige kit - a colour combination I prefer to call creme caramel that I'd like in the living room of my new house - were all out for 170, despite 66 in 39 balls from Scott Styris, who would go on to be a T20 specialist across the world.

Ponting said famously after that first match: "I think it's difficult to play seriously." He is now Australia's assistant coach for this series and more than a million, external fans attended the Big Bash matches this year, so it's quite a serious business now.

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These two teams contested the first Twenty20 international, which, coincidentally, was also at Eden Park, 13 years ago. As you can see from the pre-match picture, it was considered something of a light-hearted event back then.

Who knew the dominance the shortest form would soon have?

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I remember going to work at dear old TV Centre in London's Wood Lane in the middle of the night and whenever there was an Anzac match on there would be huge queues outside the Shepherd's Bush Walkabout waiting to watch it.

These two teams, who first met in international cricket in 1946, could play each other in rock-paper-scissors and there would be interest. Plenty to look forward to then and we start in just under half an hour.

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Hello again. No England today, but we'll be seeing the likes of Maxwell, Guptill, Munro and Finch wielding the willow as we welcome you to our coverage of the Trans-Tasman Tri-Series T20 final between New Zealand and Australia from Eden Park in Auckland.