Australia’s 43 runs in the power play
Despite Finch being out, Mitchell Marsh and David Warner have kept the Australian run wheel in motion. Marsh, who hit a six in the fourth over to welcome Adam Milne, bowled two fours in the next two overs. Warner hit a six in the Saudi over in the next over. After Finch was out, Australia were 15 for 1 at the end of 3 overs, and in the next two overs L got 15 and 10 runs respectively.
In the sixth over, however, Milne managed to block the run. L3 runs in this over. At the end of 6 overs of power play, Australia scored 43 runs for 1 wicket. New Zealand’s run was 32 for 1 at this time.
Bolt’s victim is Finch
Finch was hit by Bolt in the first over. Australia managed to take only 1 run in that over. But in the second over, David Warner gave a great reply to Tim Southee. He hit two fours in a row, 10 runs came in that over. In the third over, Finch hit a long off boundary off Bolt’s first ball. But the next ball out!
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This time Bolt hit the bouncer after eating four balls in the previous ball ‘Nakal Bale’. The ball bounced off the top edge of the bat. Daryl Mitchell took a great catch in the deep square leg. Mitchell ran from the fine leg to the deep square leg and took the catch!
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Finch returned with 5 runs off 6 balls. Australia broke the opening pair by 14 runs.
