After Green's outstanding innings, Australia tightens the screws in the first test against New Zealand as Nathan Lyon spin works its magic
NZ vs AUS: The play on the second day of the first Test between New Zealand and Australia ended on Friday. Australia has tightened the noose in the first test. The Kangaroo team scored 383 runs in the first innings, in response to which the Kiwi team was all out for only 179 runs in the first innings. In this way, Australia achieved a huge lead of 204 runs based on the first innings.
Australia has tightened its grip on the match on the very second day of the ongoing first Test against New Zealand in Wellington. In response to Australia's first innings score of 383 runs, New Zealand was all out for only 179 runs.
In this way, the Kangaroo team got a huge lead of 204 runs based on the first innings. At stumps on the second day, Australia scored 13 runs after losing 2 wickets in 8 overs and its total lead was 217 runs. At the time of stumps, Usman Khawaja (5*) and night watchman Nathan Lyon (6*) were scoring runs.
Australia advanced its first innings on the second day with a score of 279/9. Cameron Green (174*) and Josh Hazlewood (22) made a record partnership of 116 runs for the last wicket and kept the Kiwi bowlers hungry for wickets. Both of them made the biggest partnership for the 10th wicket for Australia against New Zealand. Green-Hazelwood made the fourth-highest partnership for the 10th wicket in Australian Test history.
Matt Henry ended Australia's first innings by getting Josh Hazlewood caught by Rachin Ravindra. Matt Henry took a maximum of 5 wickets for New Zealand. William O'Rourke and Scott Kuzelgin took two wickets each. One wicket came in the account of Rachin Ravindra.
New Zealand's first innings had a very bad start. Mitchell Starc clean-bowled Tom Latham (5) in the fifth over. Kane Williamson was unfortunately run out on the last ball of this over. Williamson could not open the account. Josh Hazlewood gave the third blow to New Zealand by getting Rachin Ravindra caught out by Lyon. Ravindra also could not open the account.
New Zealand had lost five wickets on the score of only 29 runs. Glenn Phillips (71) and Matt Henry (42) were able to face the Australian bowlers to some extent, but the other batsmen were disappointed. New Zealand's innings was all out for 179 runs in 43.1 overs. Nathan Lyon took a maximum of four wickets for Australia. Josh Hazlewood got two wickets. Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Marsh had one success each.
Australia's second innings had a poor start after bowling out New Zealand cheaply. Kiwi captain Tim Southee clean-bowled Steve Smith on the third ball of the first over. Then he got Marnus Labuschagne (2) caught out by Tom Blundell in the fifth over. It remains to be seen on the third day how quickly New Zealand will be able to defeat Australia. Well, in the current scenario, Australia seems to be a strong contender to win the Test.
