Queenstown: West Indies and New Zealand are now one to one for One Day Series. After Drawing Test Series and Twenty20 among themselves they will like have a deciding series this time. WI and NZ are having rankings 8th and 5th respectively.
From West Indies Team, Chris Gayle is looking in a devastating form, after winning player of the series in Test matches, and playing wonderful innings in 1st T20, he will surely like to show his muscle in the ODI matches. Chanderpaul is also in a good form, and he will like to continue it.
In New Zealand Wicket keeper McCullum and Skipper Daneil Vettori are in good form in batting and bowling respectively. Newzealand has 1 plus point that they have won all the ODI Series in 2008. Where as WI have only won 2 ODI Matches against Test playing Nations this year.
New Zealand | West Indies | |
Coach | Andy Moles | John Dyson |
ICC Ranking | 5 | 8 |
Key Players | Ross Taylor, Daniel Vettori, McCullum | Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Gayle, Xavier Marshall |
Stats and Trivia | Australia are the only team to have won a one-day series in New Zealand since February 2001. | New Zealand have lost only four of their 21 ODIs against West Indies since 2000. |
Weather | Showers in the morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. High 66oF. Winds W at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 50%. | |
Pitch | The Queenstown pitch is favourable to the fast bowlers. Last match of 2008 is likely to be no different with Peter Domigan, the man in charge of the pitch, saying it is "nice, hard and shiny" and that it has some "fast bounce". | |
Current Form | WWLWW | WWLLL (Most recent last) |
Head to head | Total 46, WI 23, NZ 18, NR 6 |