Ponting: It is a good result, I would have thought. We kept taking wickets, kept applying the pressure and it paid off in the end. Hauritz bowled beautifully today, he has not got a lot of opportunities this series, he made it count today. White has been terrific for us, in finishing off games and he batted with a great deal of maturity. It is good to see a couple of Aussie fans out here.

Vettori: We lost too many wickets, when you have to strike at the end, you dont have too many resources and against Australia, you just cant do that. Today things did not work, even though you want it to. Rough decisions are a part of Cricket, Bondy and I tried to apply the pressure, but it was always difficult to do it. We will play for pride in the final ODI.

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New Zealand squad
DL Vettori*, SE Bond, NT Broom, JEC Franklin, MJ Guptill, GJ Hopkins†, PJ Ingram, BB McCullum†, NL McCullum, MJ Mason, TG Southee, SL Stewart, SB Styris, LRPL Taylor, DR Tuffey

Australia squad
RT Ponting*, MJ Clarke, GJ Bailey, DE Bollinger, BJ Haddin†, RJ Harris, NM Hauritz, JR Hopes, MEK Hussey, MG Johnson, CJ McKay, AC Voges, SR Watson, CL White

Fall of wickets :

1/48 (Chris Gayle , 15.3), 2/86 (Adrian Barath , 25.2), 3/151 (Denesh Ramdin , 38.5), 4/151 (Shivnarine Chanderpaul , 39), 5/195 (Narsingh Deonarine , 45.1), 6/207 (Dwayne Bravo , 46.6), 7/225 (Kieron Pollard , 48.4), 8/242 (Ravi Rampaul , 49.3), 9/243 (Nikita Miller , 49.5),

Bowling :Zimbabwe

Batting : Zimbabwe Innings

Fall of wickets :

1/0 (Vusi Sibanda , 0.3), 2/51 (Brendan Taylor , 9.6), 3/57 (Tatenda Taibu , 11.6), 4/58 (Stuart Matsikenyeri , 12.3), 5/58 (Hamilton Masakadza , 13.2), 6/72 (Elton Chigumbura , 16.3), 7/75 (Timycen Maruma , 19.3), 8/80 (Greg Lamb , 20.2), 9/96 (Graeme Cremer , 28.1), 10/104 (Ray Price , 31.5),

Bowling :West Indies

Ricky Ponting is obviously chuffed with the team for their efforts and admits that bowling first was the right choice in the end and that, possibly, that could be the way to go in the future. He says his batsmen need to continue to make big scores and is happy they take the momentum to Auckland.

Brad Haddin deservedly takes the Man of the Match award for his magnificent 110. Haddin is glad to push on to three figures after getting a few starts in the series, especially with his skipper putting the pressure on the top order for someone to make a ton.

Hours of play (local time): 14.00 start, First Session 14.00-17.30, Interval 17.30-18.15, Second Session 18.15-21.45

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New Zealand (possible) 1 Brendon McCullum (wk), 2 Peter Ingram, 3 Martin Guptill, 4 Ross Taylor/Shanan Stewart, 5 Neil Broom, 6 Scott Styris, 7 Gareth Hopkins (wk), 8 Daniel Vettori (capt), 9 Daryl Tuffey, 10 Tim Southee, 11 Shane Bond.

Australia (possible) 1 Shane Watson, 2 Brad Haddin (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Shaun Marsh, 5 Cameron White, 6 Michael Hussey, 7 James Hopes, 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Nathan Hauritz, 10 Ryan Harris, 11 Clint McKay.