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GUYANA CHRONICLE Friday December 11, 2015
Voges, Marsh drive Australia to 438-3 ADAM Voges scored 174 and Shaun Marsh 139 in an unbroken partnership of 317 runs to give Australia a commanding 438 for three at the close of play on the opening day of the first test against West Indies in Hobart on Thursday. The hosts are overwhelming favourites to win the three-match series and but for a slight wobble when they lost Steve Smith (10) and David Warner (64) before lunch, they simply dominated the tourists at Bellerive Oval. West Indies had spoken of targeting what they perceived as a weakness in Australia’s middle-order but thirty-something Western Australians Voges and Marsh sent them straight back to the drawing board by batting through the last two sessions. “I’ve batted with Vogesy a lot of times for WA and to have that partnership today was pretty special,” Marsh told ABC radio. “I knew that if we just ground them down we could score some runs at the end of the day. Vogesy batted really well and got
me going and I’m really happy that we both got hundreds.” Voges, who made his debut against West Indies in Roseau earlier this year, secured his third century in 11 tests off exactly 100 de-
Marsh matched him with his own third test century deep into the final session, pulling the 150th delivery he had faced through square leg for his ninth four to reach the milestone for the first time on home
At stumps on Day 1, Adam Voges was unbeaten on 174 with Shaun Marsh not out 139 in a unbeaten fourth-wicket partnership of 317 liveries from the penultimate ball before tea.
soil. His partner did not allow
Marsh to hog the limelight for long, however, and a reverse sweep for three runs soon brought up Voges’s first 150 in the longest form of the game. At the close of play, Voges had hit 19 boundaries and taken his tally of runs in his maiden year of test cricket to an impressive 827. West Indies captain Jason Holder had a miserable day after losing the toss and could face a disciplinary action after only 50 overs were bowled in the first two sessions. His woes were compounded by a left ankle injury which left paceman Shannon Gabriel unable to bowl and booked in for scans on the joint on Thursday evening. In the 10 overs he did bowl, Gabriel mixed the sloppy -- a preposterous front-foot no ball -- with the sublime -- a 147.2 kilometres per hour rocket which went through the gate to bowl Australian opener Joe Burns for 33. West Indies opted for a four-pronged pace attack but it was left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican who dismissed Warner and Smith to peg the
Australians back after they had scored 70 runs in the first 10 overs. Voges put the 23-yearold Barbadian in his place by clubbing him for four boundaries in one over just after lunch, a statement of intent which presaged Australia’s dominance of
the rest of the day. “We thought we were in a good position before lunch but the partnership between Voges and Marsh put us right on the back foot,” Warrican said. “We just weren’t disciplined and that put us into this hole.”
SCOREBOARD Dec 10 (Infostrada Sports) - Scoreboard at stumps on the first day in the first Test between Australia and West Indies on Thursday in Hobart, Australia Australia 1st innings J. Burns b Gabriel 33 D. Warner c Ramdin b Warrican 64 S. Smith c Blackwood b Warrican 10 A. Voges not out 174 S. Marsh not out 139 Extras (b-4 lb-2 nb-11 w-1) 18 Total (for 3 wickets, 89 overs) 438 Fall of wickets: 1-75 J. Burns,2-104 S. Smith,3-121 D. Warner To bat: M. Marsh, P. Nevill, P. Siddle, J. Pattinson, J. Hazlewood, N. Lyon Bowling J. Taylor K. Roach S. Gabriel J. Holder J. Warrican K. Brathwaite J. Blackwood
12 - 0 - 76 - 0(nb-1 w-1) 11 - 1 - 64 - 0(nb-3) 10 - 1 - 59 - 1(nb-4) 15 - 1 - 45 - 0(nb-3) 22 - 1 - 111 - 2 13 - 0 - 52 - 0 6 - 0 - 25 - 0
Referees Umpire: Marais Erasmus Umpire: Ian Gould TV umpire: Chris Gaffaney Match referee: Chris Broad0
Guptill century puts New Zealand in strong position MARTIN Guptill and Kane Williamson set the platform, and then Captain Brendon McCullum provided the fireworks as New Zealand posted a strong first innings score in the first test against Sri Lanka in Dunedin on Thursday. Guptill, who had received a tacit warning he may have been playing for his place in the side, struck his third test century, while Williamson fell just short of his 13th as they combined in a record 173-run second wicket partnership. “The way we batted throughout and the way we were able to rotate the strike and get the strike rate going was really pleasing,” Guptill told reporters of the partnership. McCullum, who is likely to be playing his final test in his home city before his expected retirement after the World Twenty20 in March, then smashed Sri Lanka’s bowlers around the picturesque University Oval to accelerate his side’s innings. McCullum scored 75 runs from 57 balls in a little under an hour before his side reached the close of the first day on 409-8, with
Doug Bracewell on 32 and Neil Wagner yet to score after the visitors took six wickets in the final session. The 34-year-old McCullum made a streaky start but
ly dismissed with five overs remaining when he was caught by wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal off Angelo Mathews. “Any time you get a hun-
New Zealand batsmen Kane Williamson (left) and Martin Guptill run through for a quick single opened up to dominate the 89-run fourth-wicket stand with Guptill (156), who had earlier put the hosts in a strong position with Williamson. Guptill, who had a poor run in the recent Australia series, was final-
dred you’re satisfied but to be able to kick on and get to 150 was pretty pleasing and it set the game up well for us,” Guptill added. “They (the coaching staff) have been good to me and given me a good run in the test side and
today capped off a lot of hard work over the last 18 months to get back in the test side.” Williamson, who has scored almost 1,000 test runs in 2015, never appeared in trouble at the crease as he guided the ball around the field at will before he was well caught at slip by Dimuth Karunaratne off Nuwan Pradeep for 88 just before tea. The pair’s record second-wicket stand for New Zealand against Sri Lanka had stymied any assistance the visitors had hoped to extract from the greentinged pitch after winning the toss. The visitors, however, clawed their way back into the game after McCullum departed when he top-edged the third delivery of left-arm spinner Milinda Siriwardana’s first over and was caught at deep square leg by Kithuruwan Vithanage. Dushmantha Chameera then got rid of both Mitchell Santner (12) and BJ Watling (five) to check the scoring rate before Guptill and Tim Southee (two) fell to Mathews and Suranga Lakmal respectively.
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