06.10.2009
- Australia have performed quite well at neutral venues against New Zealand, winning 16 out of 17 contested - winning % 94.12. New Zealand have just one win to their credit - by 5 wickets at Cardiff in the 1999 World Cup.
- Australia's six-wicket victory in the Grand Final is their 12th in the ICC Champions Trophy out of 18 played - lost five and one No-Result game. Australia enjoy a winning % of 70.58.
- Australia and West Indies share a record for most wins (12) in the ICC Champions Trophy. Sri Lanka and New Zealand have won 11 each followed by India and South Africa with 10 each.
- Australia enjoy a 100% record against New Zealand, winning all their four matches in the ICC Champions Trophy.
- Australia, with their magnificent triumph over New Zealand in the Grand Final, have won five successive multi-team competitions - three World Cup Finals and the last two Champions Trophies.
- New Zealand (200 for nine) have registered their second highest total against Australia in the ICC Champions Trophy, next only to the 206 at Mohali on November 1, 2006.
- Brett Lee, with two wickets, has taken his wickets' tally in the ICC Champions Trophy to 22 (avg 26.86 in 16 matches), overtaking Glenn McGrath's previous best - 21 (avg 19.61) in 12 matches.
- Lee (2/45) is the second Australian speedster to complete 50 wickets against New Zealand - 51 at 20.82 runs apiece in 27 ODIs. McGrath holds a record for claiming most wickets in Australia-New Zealand games - 59 wickets at 19.83 runs apiece in 32 ODIs.
- Brendon McCullum has recorded his first duck in the ICC Champions Trophy. He is without a fifty in the ICC Champions Trophy, aggregating 260 runs in ten innings at an average of 26.00.
- McCullum's third duck against Australia is his 11th in ODIs.
- Jeetan Patel (16 not out) has registered his highest innings against Australia and the second best overall - his career-best being the 34 against Sri Lanka at Kingston on April 24, 2007.
- Kyle Mills (3/27) has bowled splendidly in the ICC Champions Trophy claiming 22 wickets (avg 19.09) in 12 matches at a strike rate of 26.1 (Economy rate 4.37). His wickets' tally is a record by a New Zealander in the ICC Champions Trophy.
- Shane Watson has registered a unique feat, a hat-trick of sorts, which is unlikely to be surpassed. He has bagged three Man of the Match awards in succession - ICC Champions Trophy knock-out games - 2006-07 Final (57 not out + 2/11), followed by 2009-10 Semi-Final (136 not out + 2/35) and the Final (105 not out).
- Watson has been adjudged the Man of the Match for the seventh time in limited-Overs Internationals - his first against New Zealand.
- Daniel Vettori and Watson have got two Man of the Match awards in the just concluded ICC Champions Trophy 2009-10.
- Watson became the first batsman to have recorded three hundreds in 2009.
- Watson, during the course of his excellent hundred against New Zealand, has completed his 2,000 runs - 2020 (avg 40.40) in 90 games.
- Watson has registered one century each against New Zealand, Pakistan, West Indies and England.
- Watson's run-aggregate of 265 (avg 88.33) in five matches is exceeded only by Ricky Ponting (288) in the 2009-10 ICC Champions Trophy.
- Watson has a splendid record in ODIs while batting at number No.1 position - 705 in 16 innings, including three centuries and two fifties at an average of 58.75.
- Watson and Cameron White have shared a third-wicket stand of 128, which is Australa's best ever in the ICC Champions Trophy, surpassing the 103 (unbroken) between Watson and Damien Martyn against West Indies at Brabourne Stadium on November 5, 2006.
- White has registered his second fifty in ODIs. The said innings is his second highest, next only to the 105 against England at Southampton on September 9, 2009.
- In three consecutive finals, Ricky Ponting has posted the same score - 1 (vs India at SCG on March 2,2008), 1 (vs India at Brisbane on March 4, 2008) & 1 (vs New Zealand at Centurion on October 5, 2009)
- Nathan Hauritz's excellent bowling figures of 3/37 are his best in the ICC Champions Trophy, surpassing the two for 23 against West Indies at Johannesburg on September 26, 2009.
- Hauritz's wickets' tally of 31 wickets (avg 25.67) in 24 ODIs in 2009 is exceeded only by Australia's Mitchell Johnson (37) and Sri Lanka's Nuwan Kulasekara (32).
- Martin Guptill (40) has taken his runs' tally in the just concluded ICC Champions Trophy to 191 at an average of 38.20 - the best for New Zealand. He is the only New Zealander to post two fifty-plus in the competition.
- Guptill, with 664 runs at an average of 44.26 in 19 ODIs is the leading run-getter for New Zealand in 2009.
