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Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match Special
They spent three or four minutes to bring the covers on, on a tractor that only had one speed... and now the rain has stopped.
Summary
Australia win tri-series final
Rain ends play: Aus needed 30 off 32
Short 50 (30), Warner 25 (23)
NZ 150-9: Taylor 43*, Munro 29
Agar 3-27, Richardson 2-30, Tye 2-30
England failed to qualify for final
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Postpublished at 08:15 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2018
The ground staff are desperately trying to wrestle the cover sheet on. No hover cover here at Eden Park.
Postpublished at 08:14 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2018
James Taylor
Ex-England batsman on Test Match SpecialThey took it upon themselves to go off.
Postpublished at 08:14 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2018
Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match SpecialThe umpires are having a chat and the batsmen have just walked off...
Rain stops play - Aus 55-0published at 6 overs
Maybe D'Arcy Short wasn't just thinking about his team-mates' bed times when he was smashing boundaries, but was worried about the rain as well.
It's heavy enough now to stop play.
Postpublished at 08:13 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2018
Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match SpecialThe rain is teeming down now.
Aus 55-0published at 6 overs
Target 151
That's the powerplay done. New Zealand dragged themselves back into the game in the first four overs but Australia have marmalised 32 runs off the last two overs to take control.
Oh dear. Is that rain?
Postpublished at 08:11 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2018
James Taylor
Ex-England batsman on Test Match SpecialThis is exactly what we've been seeing in the Big Bash in the last month or so. The timing and the arc of Short's bat is beautiful to watch.
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Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match SpecialHe's backing himself to clear the infield.
Aus 52-0published at 5.3 overs
Short 41, Warner 11
Short wants this over in a hurry. Make it back-to-back sixes, the second bashed over long on.
Postpublished at 08:10 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2018
Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match SpecialIt's shelled in the crowd!
Aus 46-0published at 5.2 overs
The Australian players involved in the South Africa tour are flying out at 6am tomorrow after this match.
D'Arcy Short is trying to make sure they get to bed early, battering it into the stands over square leg off the returning Tim Southee.
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Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match SpecialThat is a really good over for the Australians.
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Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match SpecialHe baseball-batted it.
Aus 39-0published at 5 overs
Boult returns to the attack. Bang! Short batters an attempted yorker back down the ground.
Bang! Bang! Same result - another full ball is throttled back past the bowler for four.
Bang! Bang! Bang! That's in Short's arc, a length ball and the Aussie opener smacks it away over wide mid-on for six.
A huge over for Australia - 16 from it.
Postpublished at 08:04 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2018
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match SpecialI know there is plenty of batting to come, but this is a good squeeze from New Zealand. They are keeping a little control of this game at the moment.
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Patrick: Cricket should follow rugby's model – a Test match squad and a completely different team/management for T20 and one-day, the same as Test rugby and Sevens.
Aus 23-0published at 4 overs
Target 151
Sodhi finds sharp turn with the googly but it pitches on Short's off stump and just keeps spinning wide, allowing the Aussie opener to crack it away for four.
Good response from Sodhi, fizzing through a few deliveries, many of them wrong 'uns. Just six off the over.
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Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match SpecialIn no way are Australia getting off to the flier that they did in the last game here.
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Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match SpecialSouthee is good with these slower balls because he offers them at this tempting length, when you think it's in your arc.