After an edge-of-the-seat thriller on the Sky Stadium in Wellington to kick-start the T20I collection, each New Zealand and Australia are set to take one one another once more within the second fixture to be performed at Eden Park in Auckland on Friday, February 23.
The Blackcaps are heading into the second T20I on the again of a heart-breaking loss. The collection was anticipated to be a hard-fought one and that is what it turned out to be within the opening encounter.
The match went proper right down to the wire and will have gone both means. However, a calm-headed Tim David sealed the deal as he smashed the final ball of the sport between deep midwicket and huge long-on to win it for the vacationers.
The opening fixture noticed a complete of 431 runs scored in 40 overs and the second T20I is anticipated to be no totally different.
Eden Park Pitch Report
The pitch for the 2nd T20I at Eden Park might be one other belting wicket and batters from either side are in for some actual enjoyable, until they go plundering each different bowler that comes their means.
The straighter boundary goes to be focused as one can simply bag six runs with successful measuring slightly over 55 meters. The sq. boundaries are slightly over 65 meters and therefore the batters are anticipated to be conscious of the identical whereas calculating their scoring choices.
Bowlers should be spot on by way of their line and size because the room for error may be very small.
Eden Park T20I Record and Stats
Total T20I Matches: 29
Matches gained batting first: 12
Matches gained bowling first: 12
Average first innings rating: 163
Average second innings rating: 150
Highest whole scored: 245/5 by Australia vs New Zealand
Highest rating chased: 245/5 by Australia vs New Zealand
Lowest whole recorded: 76 all out by Bangladesh vs New Zealand
Lowest whole defended: 108/6 by ENG-W vs NZ-W
