NZL vs AUS 5th T20I match prediction 7 Mar 2021

NZ vs Aus Match Predictions and Betting Tips

New Zealand will play their 5th and last T20I against Australia at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington on March 7. I have the best NZ vs Aus match predictions lined up for you to make a winning from the game.

New Zealand and Australia are currently tied at 2-2 after the 4 games they have played in the Kiwi home grounds. While the two teams have been playing T20I matches against each other since 2004, New Zealand are yet to emerge as the series winner against the Aussies. The first two matches began with the Kiwis winning by giving massive targets in the two matches. They scored 184 runs in the 1st match, and managed to win by 53 runs, they then set a target of 219 in the second match, but Australia came prepared to bat, and managed to score 215 runs by the end of the 20 overs, losing to the Kiwis by just 4 runs. Australia gave back what they got, and scored 208 runs in the 3rd match, which was the first game held in Wellington and they even managed to get New Zealand all out at 144 runs, winning the game by 64 runs. This feat was repeated by the Australian Cricket team, and they won the last game by 50 runs, with a score of 156. The two teams have now played three T20Is at Wellington with Australia winning all the three matches. I have collected the top NZ vs Aus betting predictions for you to make a winning from the match.

NZ vs Aus Team Bets

There are a lot of markets encompassed in team bets, but while most bets are unpredictable because of the erratic performances given by the two teams, I have focused on the bet that is almost certainly going to win and has good odds to go with the win. Have a look at my NZ vs Aus match prediction in team bets.

Australia to hit the most 4's

Prior to this series, the two teams last played a match in 2018 which was a part of the Trans-Tasman T20 Series and was decided by the D/L method. I collated the statistics of the teams hitting fours in the matches played in this series and Australia are the clear winner. To start with the series, the Australian side hit a total of 59 fours (10, 16, 21, 12) from the 4 games, at an average of 14.75, while the Kiwis managed to hit just 48 (16, 10, 11, 11) fours from the 4 games, at an average of 12.0 where the Aussies hit more 4's in 3 of the 4 games. Even before that, Australia had faced India and lost two of the three matches, but still hit more fours in 2 of the 3 games. New Zealand played a series with Pakistan before this, who they resoundingly defeated in two of the three games, but got more fours in only 1 of the 3 games. With hard hitters like Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell with the Aussies, and the tricky bowling of Ashton Agar and Riley Meredith, Australia has just the right balance to hit more fours in this game. You can make this bet over at Sportsbet.io with odds of 1.90 for Australia to hit the most match 4's.

NZ vs Aus Player Bets

While the team bets offered by the oddsmakers are precarious, I have gone through all the players’ statistics, and past plays and I have picked out the best player bets to get you the most chance of winning money from this NZ vs Aus head to head betting tips.

Martin Guptill to score over 22.5 runs

The second bet I have picked out for you is in favour of the Kiwi who has already made 141 runs from the four matches. Martin Guptill has a career average of 31.81 from 94 innings, with a total of 2768 runs scored. He has a pretty track record against the Aussies, with 364 runs from 11 games, at an average of 33.09. Of the 11 matches 2 were played in Australia, from the rest of the 9 games, Guptill averaged 39.88. If this isn't enough, consider this: Guptill has played 12 T20I innings at Wellington, and from the games he has scored 382 runs, at an average of 34.73. Like i mentioned he has already scored 141 (0, 97, 43, 7) runs in this series, and even though he failed to deliver in the previous match and scored just 7 runs, his average in the 4th match of any series is just 12.66, whereas his average in the 5th match of the series, is at 26.0. This is one of the safer bets to make from the NZ vs Aus betting predictions, and you can head over to LeoVegas.com which has offered odds of 1.85 for Martin Guptill to score over 22.5 runs.

Matthew Wade to score under 22.5 runs

My final bet is on an Australian who has played some fine innings at home, but has rarely been able to deliver at away pitches. Matthew Wade has played 28 innings and scored 482 runs from them, at an average of just 20.95. If we consider the stark difference between his play at home where he has scored 289 runs from just 8 innings at an average of 48.16, and away from home, where he has scored just 193 runs from 20 innings at an average of 11.35, this already adds a lot of substance to the bet as we now know his play at away grounds has been suboptimal. In fact from the 20 innings, he scored more than 22.5 runs in just the 1 recent inning against New Zealand in Dunedin and has had a lower score in 19 of the 20 innings. He has played 4 matches against New Zealand which were all in this series, and he scored 55 runs (12, 24, 5, 15) at an average of just 13.75, where in the two matches at Westpac stadium he scored only 5 and 15 runs at an average of 10.0. This is the final winning NZ vs Aus match prediction I have set aside for you and you can make this bet at LeoVegas.com with odds of 1.86 for Matthew Wade to score under 22.5 runs.