{"id":374555,"date":"2024-03-10T04:35:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T05:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=374555"},"modified":"2024-03-10T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T08:03:11","slug":"absolute-specky-miracle-catch-stuns-in-4-19-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=374555","title":{"rendered":"'Absolute specky': Miracle catch stuns in 4-19 collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Southee<\/a>'s miracle catch has put his Black Caps<\/a> in the box seat for victory against Australia in the second Test match<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ufeffWith Australia already losing Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne, Usman Khawaja<\/a> was next when he edged Matt Henry to the slips.<\/p>\n

Southee dived low to his left, going at it with two hands but only took it in the one. \ufeff<\/p>\n

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AS IT HAPPENED:<\/strong> Australia vs New Zealand, day three\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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"T\ufeffhe captain in his 100th Test match pulls an absolute specky," New Zealand cricket Frankie Mackay said on TVNZ+.<\/p>\n

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Khawaja's dismissal put Australia at 3-30<\/a> with former Australian cricketer Brendon Julian also marvelling at Southee's effort. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"That's a great catch from Tim Southee, we've seen some wonderful catches in this Test match and that's certainly one of them … what a take, such a good take," he said.<\/p>\n

Following Khawaja's departure, Cameron Green was out moments later at 4-34, with Australia losing 4-19 from Smith's wicket at 1-15.<\/p>\n

\"Awful<\/p>\n

\ufeffDay three started with the Black Caps leading by 40 runs at 2-134.<\/p>\n

Rachin Ravindra led the way from New Zealand, scoring 82 as the side finished all out for 372, with Pat Cummins the pick of the bowlers with 4-62 for Australia, who were set a total of 279 runs to win at Hagley Oval. <\/p>\n

The chase was off to an awful start with Khawaja (11) the only man to hit a double digit score in the top four as Henry and Ben Sears ripped through. <\/p>\n

Steve Smith was first to go on nine when he burned an lbw review before Labuschagne (6), Khawaja and Green (5) soon followed.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/wutube\/status\/1766680488385855986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

\ufeffA much needed fightback for Australia then came after Green's wicket.<\/p>\n

Mitchell Marsh finished the day with a run-a-ball 27, while Travis Head was not out on 17 as Australia finished 4-77 at stumps, needing 202 to win. \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Southee's miracle catch has put his Black Caps in the box seat for victory against Australia in the second Test match. \ufeffWith Australia already […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374560,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374555\/revisions\/374560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/374557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}