{"id":3152,"date":"2023-02-17T05:43:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2023-02-17T05:43:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T16:43:28","slug":"englands-decision-to-declare-on-325-9-was-vindicated-by-three-late-wickets-on-day-one-of-the-day-night-first-test-against-new-zealand-in-mount-maunganui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"England’s decision to declare on 325-9 was vindicated by three late wickets on day one of the day-night first Test against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
First Test, Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui (day one of five)<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
England 325-9 dec:\u00a0<\/strong>Brook 89, Duckett 84; Wagner 4-82<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Zealand 37-3:\u00a0<\/strong>Anderson 2-10<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Zealand trail by 288 runs<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scorecard<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

England’s decision to declare on 325-9 was vindicated by three late wickets on day one of the day-night first Test against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ollie Robinson had Tom Latham caught at short leg, then James Anderson trapped Kane Williamson lbw and had Henry Nicholls caught at second slip to leave the Black Caps 37-3, trailing by 288.<\/span><\/p>\n

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England wanted to be bowling with the pink ball under floodlights and their declaration after 58.2 overs was the second-earliest in the first innings of a match in the history of Test cricket.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the tourists were asked to bat, opener Ben Duckett stroked a flowing 84 off 68 balls in the first session and Harry Brook enhanced his rapidly growing reputation with a sublime 89 from 81.<\/span><\/p>\n

At other times, England’s desire to be aggressive tipped over into carelessness. They lost three wickets for 37 runs early in the day, while a final slip of 4-27 prompted the declaration and left pace bowler Neil Wagner with 4-82.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pitch looks good for batting and the ball moved most in the night session – New Zealand might have been well placed to bat in the daytime on Friday had England not been so incisive late in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead England, with nine wins in their past 10 Tests, snatched the upper hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

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SOURCE BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Test, Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui (day one of five) England 325-9 dec:\u00a0Brook 89, Duckett 84; Wagner 4-82 New Zealand 37-3:\u00a0Anderson 2-10 New Zealand trail by 288 runs Scorecard England’s decision to declare on 325-9 was vindicated by three late wickets on day one of the day-night first Test against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}