Australia beat New Zealand by 25 runs in Cairns tonight, in captain Aaron Finch’s last ODI game, to clean sweep the three-match Chappell-Hadlee Trophy series 3-0.
Steve Smith was named player of the match for brilliant knock of 105 in the Australian innings, and player of the series for scoring 167 runs over the series.
The Black Caps made it a close contest. The top eight batters all made a start but couldn’t reach 50, that and great Aussie bowling were the main differences.
Let’s see how long this one lasts! 
This would allow the Optus Stadium name to be used now, yes?
IIRC, NRMA Insurance replaces Vodafone as naming rights sponsor of ment’s test series.
Yes that’s correct. Interesting to see them buy these rights considering they don’t operate as NRMA (if at all) everywhere in Australia.
I see what you did there!
Unintended pun
Found this footnote on the homepage of NRMA Insurance:
NRMA Insurance provides car insurance, home insurance, travel insurance, business insurance, motorcycle insurance, boat insurance and caravan insurance in NSW, QLD, ACT, TAS, SA, WA and the NT and security (monitoring) in NSW, QLD and ACT.
I’d say that RACV Insurance (which like NRMA Insurance is owned by Insurance Australia Group) will run ads at the MCG during the Boxing Day test.
It’s a strange situation to have a non-national brand sponsoring things, but I wouldn’t expect local variants - unless it’s digitally inserted differently per state?
I’d have to think it’s just that NRMA will make a move to being a national brand and are using this as a means of creating that national awareness.
If NRMA Insurance doesn’t operate in Victoria, then how useful is it to use the test series to create that national awareness?
It’s a bit like mobile telco brand 3 which sponsored the test series in the 2000s even though the service was not available (at the time) in ACT, Tasmania or NT.
ACT TAS and NT aren’t quite Victoria though…
Does anyone want to attempt to teach me the rules of Cricket?
Google can? 
Defending champions Australia is in Group A with New Zealand, host nation South Africa, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The Aussies’ first group match is against NZ in Paarl on February 11, before moving to Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) for the final three matches.
When did the name change? It will always be Port Elizabeth to me…
Port Elizabeth was renamed as Gqeberha in February last year.
Here you go
That’s the sort of explanation I was trying to find, I knew I’d heard something similar somewhere - it makes perfect sense!
Does anyone know whether the two t20 matches between AUSvWI that are on this week are official t20 world cup warm-up matches? Or are these just matches that are being treated as warmups but not official?