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NZ put Australia under pressure

AFP, Sydney
Australia are under threat of losing their top one-day ranking to New Zealand and with it the right to host the lucrative series against the rest of the world next year.
Australia, cricket’s undisputed world champions, are set to host Rest of the World Xis in a Test and one-day series next September.
But to do that, Australia must stay at the top of the International Cricket Council's rankings until next April.
The Test side will have no trouble . doing that but in the one-day arena, New Zealand can push past Australi a with a seri es of good results in their next lOonc-dayers.
If New Zealand can win the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy series, which they lead 1-0 ahead of Wednesday's second game at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the Black Caps will be in second place on the ICCladdcr.
They then head home for three matches against second-ranked Sri Lanka and five games against Australia — the last for either team before the end of the the ranking period.
With the rankings weighted to award more points for victories over top-ranked sides, New Zealand, who are hard to beat at home, could jump past Australia and lead the tabi e.
Similarly, Australia have to make sure they don't slip up in next month's home triangular series against Pakistan and the West Indies.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting said his team wasn't thinking about the Rest of World matches but
admitted the series was a "big deal".
He backed his team to keep ahead of their rivals and stay on top of the one-day ratings.
"It is a big deal, it's a pretty special thing for the players to be involved in whether you're in the World XI or in the team that’s hosting it, which hopefully is us," Ponting said on Tuesday.
"(Missing out) will happen if we don't play well but we don't look too far ahead.
"It's a fairway away yet, we’ve got a big summer ahead of us and then a tour of New Zealand... but if we play the brand of cricket we know we can play, that side of things will look after itself.
"We know it’s pretty crucial that we have to keep winning games to be a part of that but you’ve got to focus on the smaller things to give yourself a chance of winning games."
For New Zealand the prospect of supplanting Australia is tantalising.
"If we play well it's a real prospect," New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming said.
"I think every one had pencilled in Australia for that game.
"But I think with the teams we're playing — Sri Lanka and Australia, the one and two teams in the world, it’s give you a great opportunity if you play well — it would be magical.
"There's no reason not to talk about it, to dream about it, but putting it into practice is another thing."
Fleming said Australia should be feeling edgy about where the three-match Chappell-Hadlee series was headed.
"They should be (edgy) - if you lose the first game of a three-match
senes there s only one result you can have tomorrow to stay in the competition, "he said.
"So it’s the first time for a while they’ve been under pressure ... but I'm sure they'll respond in kind."
Ponting said pressure was welcome in the Australian camp as the players responded well in those situations.
"We know this is a game we have to win but one of the strengths of this team is that when we have been in tough situations - games we know we have to win -- we’ve generally played our best cricket," he said.
TEAMS
AUSTRALIA (from): Ricky Ponting (captain), Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Damien Martyn, Darren Lehmann. Michael Clarke, Andrew Symonds, Simon Katich, Shane Watson, Brad Hogg, Brett Lee, Jason Gillespie, Glenn McGrath (two to be omitted).
NEW ZEALAND (fro^ka^cphen Fleming (captain), Naman Asdp, Mathew Sinclair, Scott Styris, Hamish Marshall, Chris Cairns, Jacob Oram, Brendon McCullum, Daniel Vettori, Kyle Mills, Ian Butler, Chris Harris (one to be omitted).