Australia have completed a stunning turnaround in the second ODI against New Zealand, overcoming a nightmare start that saw them slump to 8/113 with a scintillating performance with the ball.
The Aussie tail first rallied to reach a tricky 9/195 after their 50 overs, with Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood putting on a critical unbroken 47-run stand for the final wicket, before the Black Caps collapsed spectacularly under the Cairns lights.
With Sean Abbott picking up two wickets in his first over, and taking until his fifth to so much as concede a run – he’d finish with the miserly figures of 5-4-1-2 – the visitors’ run chase couldn’t have got off to a worse start, with Adam Zampa wrapping up the tail to finish with a five-wicket haul.
The dismissal of Kane Williamson, missing a swipe at a rank full toss from Zampa to be pinned plumb LBW, couldn’t have summed things up any better.
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