On a day of high drama, New Zealand edged Australia out of the second Twenty20 match, at the AMI Stadium in Christchurch.
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Brendon McCullum smashed the record for the second highest Twenty20 score with an unbeaten 116. And on it rode the hopes of the hosts who lost the first match to a deadly spell by Mitchell Johnson.
En route, he shared two serious partnerships of fifty-two with Martin Guptill for the second wicket and sixty-eight for the fifth wicket with Gareth Hopkins who was the next top scorer of the innings with thirty-six runs before he became Dirk Nannes' hit wicket victim.
But the Australian Twenty20 captain, Michael Clarke, starred in the top two partnerships of the match to put the match in perspective. Brad Haddin played well for forty-seven runs in a second wicket partnership of seventy-three runs with Clarke. Thereafter, eighty-two runs between Clarke and Cameron White, who made his mark once again with a twenty-six ball sixty-four, really spiced up the match with the match going into a Super Eliminator over with the scores tied on 214.
But it was Tim Southee who outshone Shaun Tait in the bowling department, leaking just six runs to give New Zealand an outstanding win.
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