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Notes from the Basin II

The sort of day when watching NZ feels like rubber-necking a crash on the motorway

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Dylan Cleaver
Mar 01, 2024
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Australia 383 & 13 for 2

NZ 179 

New Zealand’s chances of securing a foothold in this series crumbled in two sessions of unimaginative and remarkably unintelligent cricket.

Yeah, the top-order collapse was acutely embarrassing, but the seeds of the ineptitude had been sown during Cam Green and Josh Hazlewood’s rec…

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