Brendon McCullum disappointed with Kiwi shot selection – Cricket News Update
Kiwi opening batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
Despite opting to bat first on seamer friendly pitch at Gabba, the tourists could not capitalize and lost regular wickets to give the hosts the ascendency.
McCullum, who opened with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Guptill-c1980 set a good early tone which saw him collect three boundaries off the first over of the day. However, the team’s aggressive intent eventually came to their demise with an inexperienced Aussie bowling lineup took control after a string of poor shots from the Kiwi batters.
"There are some very disappointed batsmen, myself included, all of us are pretty upset to pass up an opportunity to score some big runs on a challenging pitch against a very good team," McCullum said.
In an eventful first session, the hosts managed to claim four key scalps with all front line bowlers getting a wicket each. The rout was started by experienced campaigner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BJ-Haddin-c1170.
That would have give a fair lesson for the top order but they could not curb their destructive nature with McCullum throwing away his wicket in trying to attempt an uppish cut shot, which fell safely into the hands of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mitchell-Aaron-Starc-c76392 his maiden Test wicket.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nathan-Michael-Lyon-c78822, the spinner, got into the act. With the necessary loop he managed to get drift aswell, which eventually came to the failure of the batsman, who handed a straight forward catch at short leg.
The 5 minutes pre and post lunch interval saw http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JD-Ryder-c1679 play suicidal shots and McCullum admitted that the players let the team down.
“Of more importance is we lost wickets before drinks, before lunch then straight after lunch. We pride ourselves on playing hard cricket during those times and today we let ourselves down before and after breaks,” added McCullum.
However, despite such poor shot selections, the heroics of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dean-Brownlie-c1349 managed to safe the side’s blushes after a solid unbeaten stand of 80 as the visitors closed a rain-effected day on 176 for 5.
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