Summary Cricket World Cup favorites Australia and New Zealand will meet in Pool A game on Saturday.
WELLINGTON (AP) - Cricket World Cup favorites Australia and New Zealand have are circling each other warily ahead of their Pool A game at Eden Park on Saturday, as a lack of familiarity breeds respect.
The Australasian neighbors haven t met in a one-day international since the last World Cup they were due play each other at the 2013 Champions Trophy, but that match was washed out.
While they won t be lacking intelligence on each other both use anaysts to minutely explore the strengths and weaknesses of opposing players and most play with and against each other in Twenty20 leagues facing each other as national teams will be a new experience.
Austalian opener Aaron Finch called it "strange" that teams so geographically close have played each other so rarely.
