key events
Game 101: Australia 339-9 (Green 144, Hazlewood 15) Ravindra is back. The disheveled 24-year-old all-rounder picked up the lbw wicket of Pat Cummins yesterday, a just reward for his energetic bowling in front of his home crowd. He missed a single to Green and was otherwise clean, but New Zealand’s offense was ineffective.
100 overs: Australia 338-9 (Green 143, Hazlewood 15) O’Rourke brought New Zealand to triple figures as he handed off his 100th innings to the dangerously composed Cameron Green, who led the way in a 70-run partnership and now tops the innings . After some persistence, O’Rourke has now found his radar. Green still hit a single to keep Ravindra batting.
Round 99: Australia 337-9 (Green 142, Hazlewood 15) Bowling changes. Rachin Ravindra will bowl the fifth ball. A bit desperate, I guess, but worth a try at this stage. Green doesn’t mind either. He hit the fourth ball deep mid-wicket for a boundary – his 20th of the match.
As we stopped for tea, Rowan Sweeney blew the foam off a prominent point:
Even before this morning’s fireworks, the support Green received from below couldn’t quell my calls that Alex Carey should move further down the hierarchy. He bowled the willow well but seemed reluctant to stick around in support of the senior batsmen. He’s definitely our best gloveman, so he’s got to be bad in some areas, but I think he should be below Starc and probably below Cummins. “
Yes, Carey is a fickle person. First and foremost he is a great gloveman and a great batsman but has been a real rock or diamond proposition of late. Perhaps he’s feeling pressure from current Josh Inglis, or a hangover from last year’s Ashes series? I’ll leave him where he is. Does anyone else have an opinion?
Round 98: Australia 332-9 (Green 138, Hazlewood 15) Hazlewood plays one of Henry’s maidens. He looked rock solid this morning. The resolute 15 points was Hove’s highest test score since January 2019. According to Cricinfo, he has played 27 innings and not scored more than 11 runs (but 16 of them not out). Oniya Josh! Well worth a drink (alas, on-site only).
Game 97: Australia 332-9 (Green 138, Hazlewood 15) Southey stood by O’Rourke. The youngster had already shot 23 but suffered a disastrous defeat this morning. Greene turned down a few singles, waiting for a loose single to go to heaven. But it never comes, and O’Rourke sends a rare maiden, leaving Hazlewood exposed to attack.
Simon McMahon came over to see how we were doing. “Hi Angus. The final wicket partnership has now entered ‘annoying’ territory for New Zealand. It might even end up being the top end. This probably happens more often than I thought, but it’s still cool. ” Not if you’re New Zealander, Simon.
Round 96: Australia 332-9 (Green 138, Hazlewood 15) Josh Hazlewood’s 15 runs this morning gave him the highest score by an Australian in the Wellington Test, surpassing Glenn McGrath’s 2004-05 An unforgettable 14 points. Green congratulates him with a well-worked boundary, cutting it from the hip to the fine leg ropes. The next boundary was Brute Force as he slammed Henry to the fence for four. New Zealanders cringed and kicked stones as the number of partners reached 60 and the total number soared to 350.
Round 95: Australia 323-9 (Green 129, Hazlewood 15) Hazlewood takes action! He met Will O’Rourke’s first ball with a tilt of the bat and clean energy, sliding the ball over the backward rope. Lovely shoot! This is the fiftieth collaboration between the two. O’Rourke responded with a wild bouncing, wide leg-side. Hazlewood’s counterattack against this threat was brilliant – a glorious cover shot to another boundary.
Round 94: Australia 314-9 (Green 129, Hazlewood 7) The partnership of Green and Hazlewood is now in the forty, as valuable as the forty that Mitch Marsh scored yesterday. The lift and Hawicks on the counter-attack changed the momentum of the innings, taking Australia from deep trouble to the advantage and, most importantly, inspiring Cameron Green to break free and play his shot. He hit one of them on Matt Henry’s fifth pitch, but the air swung it really well. The next pitch did the trick, sending the ball over the fence and scattering punters up the Basin Reserve hill. Maximum!
Game 93: Australia 308-9 (Green 123, Hazlewood 7) New Zealand captain Tim Southee, visibly frustrated by the late resistance, removed himself from the attack and passed the ball to English-born 22-year-old William O’Rourke, who was His second test. O’Rourke bowled well yesterday, taking 2-59. But Hazlewood gave Green a good look by bowling him at short leg from the first delivery. boom! Green gets up and knocks him to the ground for a six-point count. This was his highest score in Tests. Green tried to copy the shot, but the ball was faster and followed the side of his legs, so he finished offside with a thumping shot.
Game 92: Australia 300-9 (Green 116, Hazlewood 6) Green again denied Henry a single to save the ball. The 32-year-old Christchurch delivered a scathing rebuke in the next over, confronting Green with a faster ball that put the needle between bat and pad. Josh Hazlewood visibly licked his lips at the action and threats in that speech. Now it was Green licking his lips. He stepped back, found Henry’s bouncer, aimed for his throat and threw the ball over the rope behind the square, taking Team Six’s total to over 300 points.
Round 91: Australia 294-9 (Green 110, Hazlewood 6) The skies are overcast in Wellington today, but Southey has yet to detect any movement in the darkness. There was still plenty of bounce in the pitch, and Greene drove in a single to start the fourth. The Australian tactics were strange this morning. You would have thought they would have gone for a furious quick run earlier in the day to expose New Zealand’s top order. Grabbing it, twisting it, Hazlewood hit a cross-over shot on the ground for four. Great shot from Hough!
Round 90: Australia 287-9 (Green 109, Hazlewood 2) Henry’s bodyguard! Actually no, considering Green is two meters tall and the ball whizzed through the fuzz on his chin, it was a standard ball. Green remains poised. He dropped back to the next position, a strategy that served him well yesterday when he was able to confuse the bowlers with lengths. Henry’s fifth was a walk-off that flew over the batsman’s head. It is so tall that it is so wide. The last over and Green did a great job catching the top edge single at third man.
Round 89: Australia 286-9 (Green 108, Hazlewood 2) The referees were so frightened by the two potentially scoreless runs that they had to confer to make sure no points were scored. Tim Southey was satisfied with the result. He had Green strike under cloudy skies with no wickets against his name. He bowled the tall all-rounder off the fourth ball, which was no mean feat considering the 24-year-old’s height of 200 centimeters. He delivered the next ball at a faster pace and Green drilled it inside after an easy block from keeper Brundle saved the boundary. It was just one point away from the end of the game, but Green kept the ball rolling.
Round 88: Australia 285-9 (Green 107, Hazlewood 2) Henry said to Hazlewood. Although his batsman number is No. 11, Bendemeia Bullets’ bat ability is pretty good. His scoring average is 11 points per game and his highest score is 39 points. He played cautiously this morning, perhaps trying to make a big play. Maybe he wants to take a closer look at the pitch before he starts bowling later today. He eased Henry’s fifth ball over the gully for two runs before hitting the final ball into covers. But, in a strange moment, the batter paused midway through the pitch and returned to his spot, realizing it was just a single and Greene would dodge the hit. Strange!
Game 87: Australia 283-9 (Green 107, Hazlewood 0) Southee’s numbers (0-68) don’t show it, but he played well yesterday. He got some strikes from Mitch Marsh during that whirlwind 40-mile stretch and some late sticks from Green as he accelerated into triple digits. Today his target is Green. The fourth ball reached back some distance and hit the tip of Green’s left hip, briefly bringing the big man to his knees. He exacted revenge on the next ball, striding to the leg side and hitting it towards the boundary.
Game 86: Australia 279-9 (Green 103, Hazlewood 0) We walked! Matt Henry was New Zealand’s star player on the day with figures of 4-43, and he started well with a medium-fast yorker, but Hazlewood mined this well. point and saw the end of the game. Will Green continue where he left off and open his shoulders in pursuit of 300 points? Tim Southey is about to find out…
We are looking at the wicket for the next day. It’s a lighter eucalyptus green with some cracks, which bodes well for Australia’s bowling union but ominously for the home team’s strong batting line-up, although Kane Williamson has Four consecutive centuries at his best and could well have been scored anywhere.
Although the Black Caps have become one of the most respected teams in world cricket, their recent record against Australia has been quite poor. They have only won once against Australia since 1993! For children of the 1980s, however, their superiority over Allan Border’s tragic side remains a salty gash. 39 years have passed, but the defeat in 1985 remains in the memory, not only because of the sting of an innings loss but also because of the first Test of another all-rounder, Greg Matthews century, he is one of the true originals of the game and an underrated cricketer in a tough format. A time when boys wore baggy green.
This series is the Australian Test team’s first tour of New Zealand since 2016. Whereas the Wallabies invite the All Blacks to go over the ditch and bash every game. single. New Zealanders are a bit unenthusiastic this year. Maybe Tanya Aldred knows why these comrades and best frenemies have been frozen for so long…
For those of you who are late to the party…here’s what the first day looked like.
Preface
Say hello to cricket fans and welcome to Wellington for day two of the first Test between Australia and New Zealand for the Trans-Tasman Trophy
It was an exciting first day with both teams enjoying periods of dominance. New Zealand won the match to put the visitors in, but Steve Smith and Usman Khawaja were able to contend with Basin Reserve’s tricky green-top pitch and eke out 60 runs without conceding a goal.
But Smith’s 31-run loss before lunch sparked a collapse that saw Tim Southee’s Black Caps surge past Australia after the break. At one stage, Australia had lost 4 for 28 in 17 overs with third-ranked Marnus Labuschagne and fifth-ranked Travis Head )’s recent poor run continued with both men being eliminated. Matt Henry is the chief spoiler, and the post player who broke Khawaja’s middle stump is one of the first in years.
Two all-rounders from Western Australia halted the slide. The aura of the Allan Border Medal still shone brightly as Mitch Marsh strode out from the din to kick his first ball out of bounds to start Australia’s counter-attack. At the other end, No. 4 Cameron Green held on. But when Marsh started off on 40, the youngster took over, upping the ante and holding the tail back above 200.
Green’s innings was outstanding. After tea, he accelerated in the final session and eventually scored his second Test hundred in the final match of the day and snatched the advantage away from the home team. He recovered with 103 today, Australia’s 9 for 279.
