The

Australian cricket team The Australia men's national cricket team represents Australia in international cricket. Along with England, it is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, playing and winning the first ever Test match in 1877; the team also plays One ...

toured New Zealand in January and February 2017 to play three

One Day International One Day International (ODI) is a format of cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of fifty overs, with the game lasting up to 7 hours. The World Cup, generally held every four yea ...

s (ODIs). Australia's captain Steve Smith was ruled out of series after suffering an ankle injury in the final ODI against Pakistan.

Matthew Wade Matthew Scott Wade (born 26 December 1987) is an Australian former international cricketer. He plays domestic cricket for the Tasmanian cricket team, who he also captains, and for Hobart Hurricanes. In December 2020, Wade List of Australia nati ...

was named as Australia's

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in Smith's place and

Sam Heazlett Samuel Daly Heazlett (born 12 September 1995) is an Australian cricketer who plays for Queensland in Australian domestic cricket and the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League. He made his state-level debut for Queensland in November 2015, and des ...

was added to the squad as Smith's replacement. However, Wade was ruled out of the first match with a back complaint and

Aaron Finch Aaron James Finch (born 17 November 1986) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer who served as the captain of the Australian cricket team in One Day International, ODI and Twenty20 International, T20I cricket. Fi ...

took over as captain. Before the second ODI, Wade was ruled out of series due to back injury and Finch continued to captain in the remaining matches. New Zealand won the series 2–0, to reclaim the

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Squads

Martin Guptill Martin James Guptill (born 30 September 1986) is a New Zealand cricketer and former international cricketer who played as an opening batsman in all formats of the game but pre-dominantly in limited-overs. Guptill is the first cricketer from New ...

was ruled out of the second ODI due to a

hamstring A hamstring () is any one of the three posterior thigh muscles in human anatomy between the hip and the knee: from medial to lateral, the semimembranosus, semitendinosus and biceps femoris. Etymology The word " ham" is derived from the Old ...

problem.

Dean Brownlie Dean Graham Brownlie (born 30 July 1984) is a New Zealand international cricketer who last played for the Northern Districts cricket team in New Zealand domestic cricket. Born in Australia, he has represented the New Zealand national cricket ...

was added into the squad as his cover.

Ish Sodhi Inderbir Singh "Ish" Sodhi (born 31 October 1992) is a New Zealand cricketer who represents the New Zealand national cricket team in all formats, and Canterbury in domestic cricket. He bowls right-arm leg spin, and bats right-handed. He reached t ...

was added into the squad and

Tom Blundell Sir Thomas Leon Blundell, (born 7 July 1942) is a British biochemist, structural biologist, and science administrator. He was a member of the team of Dorothy Hodgkin that solved in 1969 the first structure of a protein hormone, insulin. Blun ...

was released from the squad for final ODI. Guptill had not recovered from hamstring injury and was ruled out of the third ODI.

ODI series

1st ODI

2nd ODI

3rd ODI

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
2017 in Australian cricket 2017 in New Zealand cricket International cricket competitions in 2016–17 Australian cricket tours of New Zealand Long stubs with short prose {{NewZealand-cricket-tour-stub