On a day when newspapers round the world reported that France footballer, Zinedine Zidane, was willing to apologise but not to the Italian Marco Materazzi over his head butt in the final of the World Cup, Mitchell Johnson came close to repeating the offense. New Zealand though walked away with a win, breaking Australia's win streak in the ODIs after the Twenty20 super over elimination.
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Johnson and Scott Styris got into a verbal scuffle that resulted in physical altercation, forcing the match referee to intervene and hand out punishments.
Johnson was charged with a Level 2 offense for inappropriate and deliberate physical contact between players in the course of play while Styris had a level 1 charge against him. Johnson walked away with a 60 per cent of his match fee fine while Styris was charged with 15 per cent of his match fee.
However, New Zealand, chasing Australia's 275, found a good opening partnership of 75 between Peter Ingram and Brendon McCullum (who made 40 and 45 respectively), an innings of note from Ross Taylor with a run a ball 70. But it was Styris' 34 ball 49 that had Johnson all wrecked.
Earlier despite Daryll Tuffey taking three wickets, Australia had contributions right through the line up, with Michael Hussey contributing fifty-nine for the top score.
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