NZ vs AUS: Cameron Green and Josh Hazlewood created history, broke 20-year-old record in Test cricket
Cameron Green and Josh Hazlewood record, New Zealand vs Australia Test: Green and Hazlewood batted brilliantly and made the fourth-highest partnership in Test cricket for the 10th wicket. Both of them added 116 runs for the 10th wicket and broke the 20-year-old record.
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The first match of the two-match Test series being played between New Zealand and Australia, on the second day of the Test match being played at the Basin Reserve ground in Wellington, Australian all-rounder Cameron Green and fast bowler Josh Hazlewood created history and made a big record in their name. have taken.
Green and Hazlewood batted brilliantly and made the fourth-highest partnership in Test cricket for the 10th wicket. Both of them added 116 runs for the 10th wicket and broke the 20-year-old record. Earlier in 2004, against New Zealand in Brisbane, Australia's Jason Gillespie and Glenn McGrath had made a record partnership of 114 runs for the 10th wicket.
Ashton Agar and Phillip Hughes hold the record for Australia's highest partnership for the 10th wicket. Both of them had made a partnership of 163 runs for the last wicket against England in July 2013. Apart from this, the world record for the biggest partnership for the 10th wicket in a Test is in the name of Joe Root and James Anderson. Both of them had made a partnership of 198 runs for the 10th wicket against India in the Nottingham Test in 2014.
This is the sixth time in the history of Test cricket that Australia has made a partnership of 100 or more runs for the 10th wicket. The defending champion of the ICC World Test Championship did not have a very good start in this match but the team scored a total of 383 runs in its first innings.
During this, Green batted brilliantly and scored an unbeaten 174 runs with the help of 23 fours and five sixes in 275 balls. At the same time, Hazlewood was out as the last batsman after scoring 22 runs. The young all-rounder played a patient innings in the final over of the day, completing his second Test century. Then, on Friday, he took an aggressive approach with Hazlewood. This was Green's second century in Test cricket. Earlier last year, he had played an inning of 114 runs for Australia against India in Ahmedabad.
