Cricket: Long wait to take on Australia

The last time the Black Caps played Australia in an ODI was in Nagpur in 2011. Photo / Getty Images

You could hardly say the Black Caps and Australia are tired of playing each other, given Saturday's highly-anticipated game at Eden Park will be 1464 days since the last time the Black Caps played Australia in an ODI match. The transtasman rivals were due to play each other at the 2013 Champions Trophy but that match in Birmingham was washed out.

On February 25, 2011, in Nagpur, Australia were far too good for New Zealand in a World Cup pool game. The Black Caps had hoped to put smiles on the faces of Kiwis in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake. Instead, it was a one-sided affair. "Onlookers could even have been forgiven for thinking Australia were playing an associate nation such was the ease of their seven-wicket group A win at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, the three-time defending champions' 25th consecutive victory in World Cup cricket," the match report said. Ouch.

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