Aussies under fire after losing a home Test to Black Caps – Cricket News Update
Team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 with the local media and silver screen celebrities spitting venom on the players and the management alike.
After a nail-biting competition, the Black Caps beat the Baggy Greens by 7 runs, courtesy to the outstanding bowling of the Kiwi pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Doug-Bracewell-c1394, who grabbed a 6-wicket haul in the second innings to herald victory to his side’ s favour.
The game started on December 9 at Bellerive Oval, Hobart. In their first innings, the visitors totalled 150 runs and, in turn, bowled the hosts out for merely 136. It was the second worst batting collapse of the Kangaroos after their 47-run innings against
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 in a Test last month.
The Kiwis batted somewhat well and amassed 226 runs in their second innings. Chasing down the meagre target at Day 5, the Oz team could not face the furious bowling attack of Bracewell and fell short of 7 runs.
Thus, New Zealand bagged a Test triumph on the Australian soil after a huge gap of 26 years.
It seems that the local media is not going to spare its team which has suffered a ‘horrible’ defeat at home.
The Sydney Morning Herald has badly blasted the most senior batsman and former skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377, for his continuous batting lean patch, while The Melbourne Age has termed the defeat as a 'disaster'.
On the other hand, a Tasmanian newspaper reports, “A maiden Test century from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DA-Warner-c1301 could not save Australian blushes and even more confusion over the make up of the side going forward.”
The ABC boss, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mark-Stephen-Scott-c74749, says, "About to have a meeting with a member of the executive who is a New Zealander. The timing could be better."
Some critics have even demanded an immediate axing of the veteran batter, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Phillip-Hughes-c2185, who again failed to score confidently.
There is a bunch of cricket experts who predict that this failure will let the Aussies down in their upcoming 4-Test home event against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, starting from December 26.
The team has at least two weeks to fix its fault lines and regain momentum so that they face the Men in Blue with buoyancy.
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