Cricket: New Zealand fall just short of a record run chase as Australia hang on to win at the Cricket World Cup in India.
five-run win over New Zealand in the highest-scoring match in World Cup historyThe five-time champions made 388 before the Black Caps came agonisingly close to pulling off the second-highest chase in one-day internationals history, only to finish on 383-9.
“There could not have been a better result for New Zealand … This is going to be really, really close.” “New Zealand were behind the eight ball early, Australia came out all guns blazing. They haven’t quite been good enough to get across the line, but they fought and fought and fought. All bar the first 10 overs of this game, they probably won the resuming overs left in this contest.
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