Even Bond can146;t stop Oz with his best

Andrew Symonds scored 69 runs Sunday as Australia beat New Zealand by 105 runs, their second straight win in the tri-series limited-overs tournament.

Andrew Symonds scored 69 runs Sunday as Australia beat New Zealand by 105 runs, their second straight win in the tri-series limited-overs tournament.

New Zealand were led by a Shane Bond hat-trick and a half-century from Ross Taylor. Bond, 4-61, took three wickets with three consecutive balls in Australia8217;s last over, but Symonds and Cameron White had already added 90 runs off 54 balls to speed Australia to 289-8 from their 50 overs.

New Zealand were bowled out for 184 in reply after the dismissal of Taylor sparked a collapse that saw the Kiwis lose their last seven wickets for just 23 runs.

Adam Gilchrist hit 61 from 57 balls in an 82-run opening stand with Matthew Hayden. Mitchell Johnson, Stuart Clark and Symonds each took two wickets in an attack missing a rested Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee, who has a chest infection.

Australian swing bowler Ben Hilfenhaus was handed the new ball by skipper Ricky Ponting in his first one-day international and trapped New Zealand opener Brendon McCullum leg-before with just his 12th ball. It left New Zealand 7-2 in the fourth over.

Stephen Fleming and Taylor 8212; playing his eighth one-day international and first against Australia 8212; added 73 runs for the third wicket before Taylor and Peter Fulton combined for 81 runs in 69 balls to have the visitors well-placed for a run chase.

But when Taylor fell to Johnson with the score at 161, it started the New Zealand slide.Bond8217;s hattrick was the 23rd in limited-overs international cricket.

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He had White caught in the deep in the final over by Craig McMillan and Symonds caught behind by McCullum on the next ball. The New Zealand quick, who returned his 4-61 from 10 overs, then clean-bowled Nathan Bracken with the hat-trick ball.

Brief scores: Australia 289/8 Andrew Symonds 69, Adam Gilchrist 61, Cameron White 45; Shane B ond 4/61 beat New Zealand 184 Ross Taylor 84, Peter Fulton 37; Mitchell Johnson 2/27, Stuart Clark 2/40.