Story NewZealand Road to Glory[C07]New Zealand to bowl first

[shantanu_rooney]

Oram and How bring Kiwis back on track ​

Bracken and Lee were really effective as the Kiwis were really careful in playing their shots . Styris got of the mark with single and after that they rotated the strike quite well . While How was also getting the single and twos here and there . The running between the wickets by this two pair was superb . Kiwis needed an very important partnership to stabilize the innings and this was just turning out to be one of the most needed on . But as Johnson was brought back into the attack he got the most important wicket of Styris . Styris tried to hitting through the off side field and instead mistime it and was caught at covers by Symonds , Aussies had finally broken the partnership of 27 runs . Styris departed for another poor innings of just 5 .

Oram came in for Styris . Kiwis were in deep trouble as they lost Styris when they had scored only 102 runs on the board . Oram had to play sensible cricket . How and Oram played well . Oram got off the mark with a smashing cover drive of the back foot . He looked in some great form . How and Oram both rotated the strike well with some really good shots for four . How played a great leg glance which raced to boundary . While Oram had hit 2 more boundaries against Brett Lee both on the on side . Slowing but steadily the innings was moving forward . As Kiwis went for lunch they were 131/4 .

Lets hope that the Kiwis are able to get some big partnership over . Stay Tuned as we return we have the Phillips Extra Cover with Tony Grieg

Brief Scorecard

New Zealand Batting
J.How 44*
S.Styris c Symonds b Johnson 5
J.Oram 21*

Australia Bowling
B.Lee 14-5-54-3
M.Johnson 11-2-49-1
N.Bracken 3-0-16-0

 

[Karachi Xpress]

Good batting by How and Oram. The next session should be interesting.

 

[freddiw]

good work and good recovery NZ

 

[gamerkid22]

NZ are batting at a quicker rate but at the same time they are losing too many wickets. Lee bowled brilliantly to pick up 3 wickets .

Awesome presentation and great graphics

 

[OrderDX]

good batting from How, Styris and Oram there if these two can keep going 300 is a possibility or even more great work mate!

 

[jarl]

Australia should bowl NZ out for around 220 I think, Lee will finish the tail off.

 

[surendar]

This partnership has been somewhat convincing for the Kiwis fans.. but yet, lot and lots of work to do for Kiwis. Patience is what all they need.

Fantastic as always!

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Important Announcement​

From now onwards i will not be doing the Lunch Time and Tea Time and the Preview Show . I will only be doing the review show . This is because due to hectic schedule .:crying This doesn't mean that the story will stop . I will be again doing the shows for my next series that NZ tour of England which is gonna be a cracker:happy .So all sorry for trouble . Updates coming by tonite or tomorrow . :cool:

 

[Highlander999]

Thanks for telling us.

How and Oram have batted really well here. Hopefully they can continue to do well and post a big total. As usual great work mate, with the graphics, a really good story

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Worst Ever Thing to happen​

I am sorry all member i will be unable to continue this New Zealand tour of Australia on cricket 2007 . As due to a lot of virus in my system i had to completely format my PC upray . So i have decided to finish this tour using ICC 2002 . That is the only cricket game i have . I had installed cricket 2007 from my friend's original DVD . But what bad luck he had to shift at the right time from Mumbai to Chennai .

So I am sorry i will not be able to complete this tour in Cricket 2007 . I am again sorry for a lot of inconvenience cause due to me . :upray . I am again sorry for all those members who supported me out over here . There would not be the same graphics that i used for cricket 2007 . So it would be of a normal version .

But I promise that my next tour of England will be played on Cricket 2007 as it is a cracker of a series .
But before that i need to get the game . :help . This is the worst that has ever happened .

I again apologise all the members for the trouble I have created . :upray:hpraise

Yours Truly ,

Shantanu

 

[Pakistani Army]

Well i must admit this has been a truly amazing story. Ever so sorry about your computer.
This has happened to me before aswell.

Best of luck with your future stories Shantanu.
Kind Regards
Arslaan

 

[Karachi Xpress]

Oh...bad news. I was loving the story Nevermind! Hope to see a better story on ICC 02

 

[OrderDX]

damn this was a great story good luck with the new game though!

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Kiwis all out for 343 at the end of day 1 .

How scores his century​

It was How who dominated day one with a splendid hundred . How scored his first century of the tour . He scored when it was needed for the Kiwis . The partnership between How and Oram was the most important . Even the partnership between Franklin and How which contributed about 70 runs was very important .

Brett Lee celebrates his 5th wickets​

After lunch How and Oram dominated the bowling . White was introduced into the attack . And it was the perfect bowling change by Ponting . How had scored his half century and then it was Oram who joined the party with his half century . But soon Cameron white got rid Oram . Oram was caught by Bracken . The crowd gave him standing applause for his entertaining innings . McCullum came in and he too went back with only a boundary to his name . He was clean bowled by White . Vettori came in and he went back with out scoring a run . He was cleaned bowled by Lee . Franklin and How both steadied the innings . How reached his maiden test century in Australia with a glorious cut against Lee . The crowd applauded him for his well deserved 100 . As the partnership began to score runs How was run out . An innings pleasure to watch had come to an end . Well Played How . Bond and Franklin both got some runs on the board as Franklin reached his 50 . But Bond was given leg before on the bowling of Lee as Lee got his 5 victim . Bond departed for 27 runs . Patel was given lbw of Johnson as he departed for 10 runs . So Aussies ended day 1 getting all the wickets of the Kiwis .

Scorecard

New Zealand Batting

S.Fleming c Johnson b Lee 30
J.How run out 111
R.Taylor b Lee 4
P.Fulton b Lee 4
S.Styris c Symonds b Johnson 5
J.Oram c Bracken b White 60
B.McCullum b White 4
D.Vettori b Lee 0
J.Franklin 55*
S.Bond lbw b Lee 27
J.Patel lbw b Johnson 10
Extras 33

Total 343 all out

Australia Bowling

B.Lee 39-9-135-5
M.Johnson 21.2-5-73-2
N.Bracken 20-2-74-0
C.White 20-5-41-2

Australia trail by 343 runs .
Coming up Action of Day 2

 

[freddiw]

good update doesnt have the same 'touch of shantanu' but i understand and good luck...very sad to hear the news and also love this story..