Published: 01:10 AM, 04 February 2018 Last Update: 01:15 AM, 04 February 2018
Stanlake, Lynn star as Aussies rout Kiwis in 1st T20Is
Australia launched the inaugural T20 Tri-series with an emphatic curtain-raising victory over New Zealand at Sydney, hunting down a rain-reduced target of 95 in 11.3 overs, after their bowlers had proven too aggressive and constraining for their meek opposition.
Andrew Tye claimed four wickets as Australia restricted New Zealand to a below-par 119 for nine off their 20 overs in their Twenty20 tri-series match at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday. Tye mopped up the Kiwi tail to finish with four wickets for 23, while towering paceman Billy Stanlake claimed three wickets inside the powerplay to dismantle the Kiwis' top order.
Australia had New Zealand at 60 for five before Colin de Grandhomme hit an unbeaten 38 from 24 balls with three sixes and a four. De Grandhomme launched two massive sixes off leg-spinner Adam Zampa with the Black Caps managing just four sixes in the entire innings.
Stanlake underlined why he is one of the hottest prospects in the country and has been locked up on a Cricket Australia central contract. He produced a beautiful delivery pitching in line and straightening to beat the edge of opener Martin Guptill's bat and knock the top of off-stump for five.
Despite a top-order wobble, in which David Warner and the debutant D'Arcy Short fell inside the first three overs, the belligerent power of Chris Lynn and Glenn Maxwell soon assumed utter control of Australia's chase.
With a series of scything blows, particularly through the covers, Lynn set the initial tempo, en route to 44 from 33 balls, while Maxwell soon found his own range with a ramped four over the keeper's head followed by a planted front-foot six off the medium pace of Colin de Grandhomme.
-AFP, Sydney
Andrew Tye claimed four wickets as Australia restricted New Zealand to a below-par 119 for nine off their 20 overs in their Twenty20 tri-series match at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday. Tye mopped up the Kiwi tail to finish with four wickets for 23, while towering paceman Billy Stanlake claimed three wickets inside the powerplay to dismantle the Kiwis' top order.
Australia had New Zealand at 60 for five before Colin de Grandhomme hit an unbeaten 38 from 24 balls with three sixes and a four. De Grandhomme launched two massive sixes off leg-spinner Adam Zampa with the Black Caps managing just four sixes in the entire innings.
Stanlake underlined why he is one of the hottest prospects in the country and has been locked up on a Cricket Australia central contract. He produced a beautiful delivery pitching in line and straightening to beat the edge of opener Martin Guptill's bat and knock the top of off-stump for five.
Despite a top-order wobble, in which David Warner and the debutant D'Arcy Short fell inside the first three overs, the belligerent power of Chris Lynn and Glenn Maxwell soon assumed utter control of Australia's chase.
With a series of scything blows, particularly through the covers, Lynn set the initial tempo, en route to 44 from 33 balls, while Maxwell soon found his own range with a ramped four over the keeper's head followed by a planted front-foot six off the medium pace of Colin de Grandhomme.
-AFP, Sydney
