NZ vs AUS: After 8 years, Australia beat New Zealand at home, won the first test by 172 runs – australia beat new zealand in 1st test wellington by 172 runs highlights – 2024-03-03 20:20:51

2024-03-03 20:20:51
Wellington: The first match of the 2-match Test series between Australia and New Zealand was being played in Wellington from 29 February. In this match, the visiting team Australia defeated the Kiwi team by a huge margin of 172 runs. Let us tell you that after a long time of 8 years, Australia has defeated the Kiwi team in a test match in their own home. Earlier, Australia had won a Test match against New Zealand at home in 2016. Let us know what happened in the first test.

Australia scored 383 runs in the first innings

New Zealand won the toss and decided to bowl first. In such a situation, while batting, Australia scored 383 runs in the first innings. The credit for this goes only to Cameron Green, who has played a brilliant inning of 174 not out in 275 balls. In this innings, 23 fours and 5 sixes were also seen from Green’s bat. Apart from Green, Mitchell Marsh also scored 40 runs. Matt Henry took maximum 5 wickets in the first innings for the Kiwi team.

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In response, New Zealand collapsed after scoring only 179 runs in the first innings. Only Glenn Phillips played a brilliant inning of 71 runs. Apart from this, Matt Henry scored 42 runs and Tom Blundell scored 33 runs. Nathan Lyon took maximum 4 wickets for Australia.

Australia was limited to 164 in the second innings.

Australia’s batting was not so special in the second innings. He was all out on 164 runs only. Glenn Phillips opened the baton for New Zealand. Due to this he also made some records in his name. In this way, Australia set a big target of 369 runs for New Zealand.

However, while chasing this target, New Zealand’s batting once again disappointed in the second innings. The Kiwi team was all out for only 196 runs. Rachin Ravindra scored 59 runs and Daryl Mitchell scored 38 runs. Lion created a stir by taking 6 wickets in the second innings. He took a total of 10 wickets in both innings combined. In this way Australia defeated New Zealand by 172 runs.