new zealand vs australia
The Australian team is currently on a tour of New Zealand, where it has come to play a three-match T20 and 2-Test series. On February 21, the Kangaroo team won the first T20 match played on the Wellington grounds in a thrilling manner by 6 wickets. However, despite this, a shameful record has been added to Australia’s name in T20 International, which was not recorded in the name of any team before. In this first match of the T20 series, a shameful performance was seen by the bowlers of the Kangaroo team, in which they gave away 215 runs in 20 overs. After this, Australia has now become the first team in T20 International, which has scored 200 plus runs in 4 consecutive matches.
The series started with the T20 series against West Indies
Before the start of this T20 series against New Zealand, the Australian team played a three-match T20 series against West Indies at home, in which their bowlers gave 202 runs in the first match, 207 runs in the second match and 220 runs in the third match. . Out of these, the Kangaroo team had won the first two matches and had to face defeat in the last match. In this first T20 match against New Zealand, Australia had come out on the field with its full strength, in which Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins were present in the bowling, yet the team made 215. Cummins gave 43 runs in this match while Starc gave 39 runs.
Mitchell Marsh played the captaincy innings, Tim David played the role of finisher.
Talking about the first T20 match played in Wellington, Devon Conway scored 63 runs while Rachin Ravindra played an important role in taking the team to the score of 215 runs by playing an inning of 68 runs for New Zealand. While chasing the target, the Australian team could only reach the score of 173 till the 17th over and in the last 3 overs they needed 43 runs to win. In such a situation, Kangaroo team captain Mitchell Marsh, who was batting after completing his half-century at one end, got the support of Tim David, in which David played an unbeaten inning of 31 runs with 3 sixes and 2 fours in just 10 balls and helped Australia win the match. Returned after winning. There was a partnership of 44 runs in 19 balls for the 5th wicket between Marsh and David. Now the second match of the series between the two teams will be played on 23 February.
read this also
India shines in ICC Test Rankings, three Indian players reach top 5
ICC Rankings: Yashasvi Jaiswal’s big blast, jumped so many places at once
Latest Cricket News