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Australia vs New Zealand: Boxing Day Test, Day 2 cricket live scores, blog

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26th December, 2019
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First Innings: New Zealand

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New Zealand

2/44

New Zealand trail Australia by 423 runs with 8 wickets remaining

1/9 (5.0) *Pattinson O: 18.0 Taylor* 2 (19)
0/2 (2.0) Lyon RR:2.10 Latham 9 (57)
c. Paine b. Pattinson12.2
2/39
Williamson 9(14)
c. Paine b. Cummins5.4
1/23
Blundell 15(19)
First Innings: Australia467 all outRR: 2.58O: 155.1

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First Innings: Australia 467 all out RR: 2.58 O: 155.1
Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR

D.A. Warner

c. Southee b. Wagner

41 64 3 0 64.06

J.A. Burns

b. Boult

0 1 0 0 0.00

M. Labuschagne

b. de Grandhomme

63 149 6 1 42.28

S.P.D. Smith

c. Nicholls b. Wagner

85 242 8 1 35.12

M.S. Wade

c. Watling b. de Grandhomme

38 78 3 0 48.72

T.M. Head

c. Santner b. Wagner

114 234 12 0 48.72

T.D. Paine*+

lbw. Wagner

79 138 9 0 57.25

M.A. Starc

c. Williamson b. Southee

1 3 0 0 33.33

J.L. Pattinson

not out

14 11 2 0 127.27

P.J. Cummins

c. Latham b. Southee

0 5 0 0 0.00

N.M. Lyon

c. Wagner b. Southee

1 6 0 0 16.67

Extras

(b 5, lb 22, w 4, nb 0)

31  
Total 467  
Bowlers O M R W Ec
T.A. Boult 31.0 3 91 1 2.94
T.G. Southee 33.1 6 103 3 3.11
C. de Grandhomme 30.0 5 68 2 2.27
N. Wagner 38.0 11 83 4 2.18
M.J. Santner 20.0 1 82 0 4.10
T.A. Blundell 3.0 0 13 0 4.33
First Innings: New Zealand 2/44 RR: 2.10 O: 18.0
Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR

T.W.M. Latham

not out

9 57 0 0 15.79

T.A. Blundell

c. Paine b. Cummins

15 19 2 0 78.95

K.S. Williamson*

c. Paine b. Pattinson

9 14 0 0 64.29

L.R.P.L. Taylor

not out

2 19 0 0 10.53

H.M. Nicholls

         

C. de Grandhomme

         

B.J. Watling+

         

M.J. Santner

         

T.G. Southee

         

N. Wagner

         

T.A. Boult

         

Extras

(b 4, lb 3, w 1, nb 1)

9  
Total 44  
Bowlers O M R W Ec
M.A. Starc 4.0 0 18 0 4.50
P.J. Cummins 7.0 3 8 1 1.14
J.L. Pattinson 5.0 1 9 1 1.80
N.M. Lyon 2.0 0 2 0 1.00

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Australia ended Boxing Day happier than New Zealand after an action-packed day of Test cricket. Join The Roar for live scores and commentary from 10:30am (AEDT) as Steve Smith returns to the crease with Travis Head to stack up a healthy first-inning total.

The day kicked off with a massive roar that thundered around the G as the returning Trent Boult got one to nip through Joe Burns’s defences and rattled the pegs in the very first over. Marnus Labuschagne and David Warner were tested by the moving cherry when the conditions were the trickiest. Warner seemed to be settling in well before he was removed by Neil Wagner, brilliantly gobbled by Tim Southee positioned at second slip.

As soon as Steve Smith walked out to bat the short-ball barrage commenced and the dead-ball fiasco unrolled just at the stroke of lunch. Smith continued to duck, stoop and weave under the short-pitched stuff after the break and gradually began to find his groove. The two of them seemed determined and patient at the crease, and it was Colin de Grandhomme who had the ball taking extra lift off the surface and disturbing the timberwork after ricocheting off Labuschagne’s elbow.

De Grandhomme kept on probing on a nagging line outside off and was rewarded with Matthew Wade’s scalp. However, Smith became better and better on the other end, where he not only occupied the crease but also upped the ante as far as the scoreboard was concerned. Smith and Head reach stumps unscathed to see Australia with 257 runs on the board with the loss of just four wickets.

Ideally the visitors would have liked more than four wickets to justify their skipper’s decision of electing to field first under slightly overcast conditions after winning the toss. The Black Caps have their work cut out for today: walk out into the middle and look to seal off the innings without leaking lots of runs. They’d want a better effort from Mitchell Santner, who was quite ordinary on Day 1 with the ball.

Safe to say the Kiwis will once again be backed and buoyed by the massive contingent of travelling fans who kept cheering for them until the very last ball was delivered on Boxing Day. In fact the overall atmosphere was tremendous, with more than 80,000 fans in the house, the second-largest attendance ever for a non-Ashes Boxing Day Test match.

Smith, on the other hand, will be looking to continue his formidable form in Boxing Day Tests and notch up yet another hundred at the G when he marches out into the centre this morning. Either way, the first couple of hours will be of immense significance and may well decide the outcome of the match.

Don’t forget to tune into The Roar’s live coverage and blog for Day 2 of this Boxing Day Test between Australia and New Zealand.

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Game 1nformation

First ball: 10:30am (AEDT)
Venue: MCG
TV: Fox Cricket and Channel Seven
Online: Kayo Sports, Foxtel Go
On-field umpires: Nigel Llong andamp; Marais Erasmus
Overall record: Played 58, Australia 32, New Zealand 8, drawn 18
Overall record in Australia: Played 32, Australia 18, New Zealand 3, drawn 11
Overall record at the MCG: Played 3, Australia 1, New Zealand 0, drawn 2

Teams

Australia
Joe Burns, David Warner, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Matthew Wade, Travis Head/Michael Neser, Tim Paine (c, wk), Pat Cummins, James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon

New Zealand
Tom Latham, Tom Blundell, Kane Williamson (c), Ross Taylor, Henry Nicholls, BJ Watling (wk), Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Neil Wagner, Tim Southee, Trent Boult

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