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Stand in captain Brendon McCullum won the toss and elected to bat in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy against Australia at Centurion
Daniel Vettori has been ruled out to the semi final after failing a fitness test prior to start of play. He pulled his hamstring in the match against Pakistan and was unable to recover in time of for the final.
It's the fourth front line player to be struck down by injury after earlier losing Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder and Daryl Tuffey.
The injury hands Jeetan Patel the opportunity to play and is the only change from the team that won the semi final.
Australia have named an unchanged line up from the one that knocked out England two days ago.
BLACKCAPS
BB McCullum (captain), AJ Redmond, MJ Guptill, LRPL Taylor, GD Elliott, NT Broom, JEC Franklin, KD Mills, IG Butler, SE Bond, JS Patel
Australia
SR Watson, TD Paine, RT Ponting (captain), MEK Hussey, CL White, CJ Ferguson, JR Hopes, MG Johnson, B Lee, NM Hauritz, PM Siddle
