On December 13, the two teams from New Zealand ODD 2020 are going to have a face-off at 03:30 AM IST. This upcoming match is going to be the 15th ODI of Ford Trophy 2020-21 and it will be played at the venue of Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland. The two teams for this match will be Auckland and Wellington. Being the bottom positioned teams, both the sides will be looking forward to getting a higher position in the competition. Because of their current situation in the league, both the teams would be in desperate need to get a win in this upcoming match.
AUK vs WEL Live Score
Auckland Squads
Ben Lister, Bradley Rodden, Graeme Beghin, Colin Munro, William O Donnell, Ben Horne(w), William Somerville, Olly Pringle, Martin Guptill, Glenn Phillips, Robert ODonnell (c), Ross ter Braak, Louis Delport, Ryan Harrison
Wellington Squads
Jimmy Neesham, Andrew Fletcher, Jakob Bhula, Ben Sears, Michael Bracewell, Peter Younghusband, Jamie gibson, Hamish Bennett, Ollie Newton, Iain Mcpeake, Michael Snedden, Tom Blundell, Lauchie Johns, Devon Conway, Troy Johnson, Fraser Colson, Rachin Ravindra, Logan van Beek
Probable Playing 11
Team AUK: Ben Horne (w), Ben Lister, William Somerville, Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Glenn Phillips, William O Donnell, Louis Delport, Ryan Harrison, Ross ter Braak, Robert ODonnell (c)
Team WEL: Jakob Bhula, Ben Sears, Jimmy Neesham, Andrew Fletcher, Jamie gibson, Michael Bracewell, Peter Younghusband, Iain Mcpeake, Devon Conway, Hamish Bennett, Lauchie Johns
Auckland vs Wellington Preview
The upcoming competition between the teams Auckland and Wellington is going to be the 15th ODI of Ford Trophy 2020-21. As of now, both the teams have five encounters against each other and among those, Wellington got the highest wins (3) while Auckland got only two success from those clashes. Both the teams are head-to-head in the leagues point table as Auckland is placed at the 5th position in the point table while their opponent team Wellington sits in the 4th position of the point table. However, both the teams are not performing well and got only single win in their previously played four games. Compared to other teams in the league, the performance of both Auckland and Wellington is up to the mark. This is the high time where the improvement from both the teams has been expected and if they failed to do so then they might go in the long run in this tournament.
Key Players
As of now, both Auckland (AUK) and Wellington (WEL) need improvement in their on-going poor form. Though, the teams have potential to perform better but so far they have failed to do so in this on-going league. Right now, the team Auckland (AUK) has William Somerville, William O Donnell, Martin Guptill, Ryan Harrison and Ross ter Braak as their key players who can help out the teams to improve their performance. On the other side, team Wellington (WEL) has Jakob Bhula, Michael Bracewell, Peter Younghusband, Iain Mcpeake and Lauchie Johns as their ranking performers.
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