Cameron Green has rescued Australia with a counterattacking century after New Zealand’s pace attack wreaked havoc on a topsy-turvy opening day of the first Test in Wellington.
The West Australian repaid the selectors’ faith with a gritty 103 not out, his highest Test score since being elected to No. 4, guiding the tourists towards 9-279 at stumps on day one at the Basin Reserve. Nobody else in the Australian side scored more than 40 on a day that was otherwise dominated by the bowlers.
It was Green’s second century in Tests, reaching the milestone on the penultimate delivery of the day after clobbering three boundaries during the final over. He raced from fifty to triple figures in just 46 deliveries, finding the boundary rope 16 times during the career-defining knock.
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