Thursday, November 20, 2008

AUSTRALIA vs NEW ZEALAND - BRISBANE TEST DAY 1

Hi friends.Happy to meet you all again with an interesting topic.Today in Brisbane,the first test between Australia and New Zealand started in a brisk pace.New Zealand won the toss and elected to field first.Australia did not got a good start as the openers felled below 10 runs to the Kiwis fast bowler Southee.Captain Ricky ponting who is full of controversy failed to score runs by returning pavilion for just 4 runs.When Aussie were at a crucial stage osing 3 wickets for just 23 runs hussey and Clarke joined and made a partnership of 73 runs.But hussey failed to stand in the crease when Martin sent him pavilion for a leg before decision.Andrew Symonds,who joined team after a series of bad names and comments scored 26 runs for his part.Haddin and watson failed to impress by scoring in single digit.The tail enters added 22 runs to the total.Clarke missed ton by short of 2 runs.Kiwi fast bowlers managed to bowl out Aussie for 214 runs.Then New Zealand batsmen started of thier innings and scored 7 runs without any loss of wicket at Day one.

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