{"id":9423,"date":"2024-03-01T05:19:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2024-03-01T05:19:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:19:50","slug":"cameron-green-leads-the-way-for-australia-against-black-caps-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9423","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Green leads the way for Australia against Black Caps attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian middle order batter Cameron Green proved to be a thorn in the Black Caps&#8217; side during day one of the first Test in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>At stumps on day one Australia were 279-9 courtesy of a second Test century from Green.<\/p>\n<p>Green took only 46 balls to move from 50 to 100 runs during a day that was dominated by New Zealand&#8217;s pace attack.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old from Western Australia arrived at the crease with Australia at 65-2 and continued to see off the Black Caps&#8217; bowlers to be unbeaten on 103 at the end of the day&#8217;s play.<\/p>\n<p>For the home side Matt Henry was the best with the ball taking 4-43 off his 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Will O&#8217;Rourke and Scott Kuggeleijn finished with two wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Marsh, with a better than run-a-ball 40, was Australia&#8217;s next biggest contributor before coming Henry&#8217;s third wicket of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Marsh&#8217;s was the first wicket to fall after tea and he was shortly followed by wicketkeeper Alex Carey who was Kuggeleijn&#8217;s second wicket as the pace bowlers continued to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Starc was O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s second wicket as New Zealand worked through the Australian tail.<\/p>\n<p>The spin of Rachin Ravindra was introduced late in the day and he took the wicket of captain Pat Cummins with an LBW for 16.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--Sh2kZeN2--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1709165392\/4KU2SFV_240229BlackCapsAust_040_JPG\" alt=\"New Zealand bowler Matt Henry celebrates the wicket of Steve Smith.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Black Caps bowler Matt Henry.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Andrew Cornaga\/www.photosport.nz<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Henry capped off his and New Zealand&#8217;s day by taking Nathan Lyon&#8217;s wicket late in the last session.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Black Caps struck three times after lunch to knock off Australia&#8217;s top order as the visitors tumbled from 61-1 to 89-4 in the second session.<\/p>\n<p>In his first Test in New Zealand Marnus Labuschagne did not last long.<\/p>\n<p>Kuggeleijn had an out-of-form Labuschagne caught in the slips by Daryl Mitchell for 1 run off 27 balls in the fourth over after lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Opener Usman Khawaja was the next to go as Henry was rewarded with his second wicket when he bowled him for a cautious 33.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Head barely troubled the scorers getting out for 1 off six balls as O&#8217;Rourke got his first wicket of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Australia were 62-1 for at lunch after being sent in to bat on a green pitch in overcast conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Some inaccurate bowling to start the day gave openers Steve Smith and Khawaja an opportunity to capitalise.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was New Zealand&#8217;s first wicket of the day when he edged a Henry delivery to wicketkeeper Tom Blundell in the 25th over be out for 31.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Caps bowled 15 overs of pace in the first hour of the day headed by captain Tim Southee who took the new ball alongside Henry.<\/p>\n<p>Newcomer O&#8217;Rourke and Kuggeleijn in his second Test were the other bowlers used in New Zealand&#8217;s all-out pace attack in the first session.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand opted to include Kuggeleijn in the playing 11 in place of spinner Mitch Santner.<\/p>\n<p>Australia are playing with the same 11 that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/507792\/windies-score-stunning-win-in-brisbane\">lost to the West Indies<\/a>\u00a0in Brisbane in January.<\/p>\n<p>This the first test series between the Black Caps and Australia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/510446\/test-cricket-history-on-australia-s-side-against-black-caps\">in New Zealand since 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian middle order batter Cameron Green proved to be a thorn in the Black Caps&#8217; side during day one of the first Test in Wellington. At stumps on day one Australia were 279-9 courtesy of a second Test century from Green. Green took only 46 balls to move from 50 to 100 runs during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9423","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\/9423","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=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9426,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions\/9426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}