{"id":21479,"date":"2025-10-01T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21479"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:04:22","slug":"australia-thrash-new-zealand-in-first-t20i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21479","title":{"rendered":"Australia thrash New Zealand in first T20I"},"content":{"rendered":"
An unbeaten maiden century by New Zealand’s Tim Robinson wasn’t enough to deny Australia a comfortable six-wicket win in the opening Twenty20 at Bay Oval on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Captain Mitchell Marsh led Australia’s chase with 85 off 43 balls as they raced to 185-4 off 16.3 overs in response to the home side’s 181-6.<\/p>\n

The powerful Marsh struck nine fours and five sixes in cold, windy conditions at Mount Maunganui.<\/p>\n

He was caught in the deep in the 15th over to fall short of what would have been his first century in 74 T20 internationals.<\/p>\n

Fellow-opener Travis Head scored 31 in an electric opening stand of 67 off just 5.3 overs that set up victory and a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.<\/p>\n

Marsh said he and Head complemented each other as opening batsmen.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a great relationship off the field and I’m hoping that translates into good partnerships,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Tonight was a lot of fun.”<\/p>\n

Robinson plundered 106 not out off 66 balls after a dreadful New Zealand start when they were asked to bat first.<\/p>\n

The hosts collapsed to 6-3, with seamer Ben Dwarshuis removing Devon Conway and Mark Chapman off successive balls in the second over.<\/p>\n

The fightback was launched by Robinson and Daryl Mitchell (34), whose fourth-wicket stand of 92 came from just 55 deliveries.<\/p>\n

Robinson, 23, became the second-youngest New Zealander to score a T20 century when he blasted a four and then a six from the last two balls of the innings from Dwarshuis.<\/p>\n

“I got streaky through the middle there and got away with a few chances but that’s cricket,” Robinson said.<\/p>\n

“Those Aussies bowled really well at the top and Daryl and I spoke about getting through that really tough period when the ball was nipping around.”<\/p>\n

Both teams had a key player ruled out of the series in training incidents on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

New Zealand batsman Rachin Ravindra suffered facial cuts when he collided with a boundary fence during fielding practice.<\/p>\n

Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell broke his arm when struck by a shot from team-mate Mitchell Owen while bowling in the nets.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An unbeaten maiden century by New Zealand’s Tim Robinson wasn’t enough to deny Australia a comfortable six-wicket win in the opening Twenty20 at Bay Oval on Wednesday. Captain Mitchell Marsh led Australia’s chase with 85 off 43 balls as they raced to 185-4 off 16.3 overs in response to the home side’s 181-6. The powerful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}