Australia defeated their neighbors New Zealand by 247 runs on day four of the second Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground🅷 (MCG) and took an impressive 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
New Zealand’s opener Tom Blundell did show the fight, but it wasn’t enough to prevent Kiwis from the loss as the Aussies wrapped up the Blackcaps on 240-9.
Australia, on the other hand, are now one win away to rewrite history. If they win at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in their next game, it would be the first time since 🌳2013-14 Ashes that the Aussies will end the Test summer without꧙ a loss or a draw.
Travis Head, for his incredible ton, was gratified with the ‘Player of the Match’ award. Head scored 114 runs in the first innings.
Twitter was also lit up after the match.
Here are the best tweets:
Well done to𓆉 team on another dominate🐈 performance!! Bring on the Sydney Test match now!!!
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93)
Test over! Well played , victorious by 247 runs 👏🏽 SHOUTOUT to Tom Blundell for a sensation🃏al 121
— BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS)
Great performance by Australia’s men’s team and a fantastic spectacle at the MCG test th🔴anks to the Aust and NZ fans who attended. Aust now in second place in ಞthe World Test Championship. Looking forward to the test!
— Kevin Roberts (@KevRobertsCA)
A fine century by Tom Blundell couldn't prevent our Australian men’s team from securing victory by 247 runs in the Boxing Day Test.
Congrats to our Aussies and thank you to the huge number of people who🌌 attended the throughout the Test. See you in Sydney! 🇦🇺️👏
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus)
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Superb test ce🌌ntury Tom Blundell, very fine inning🐷s. 💯
— Tom Moody (@TomMoodyCricket)
Tom Blundell 👏👏👏👏
— Scott Styris (@scottbstyris)
Pa🍰t Cummins ends the year with 99 wickets across 🀅the three international formats:
Tests – 59 wkts at ave 20.13
ODIs – 31 wkts at ave 21.61
T20Is – 9 wkts at ave 19.11What a year he has had.
Strong contender for Cricketer of the Year 2019.
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
TOM BLUNDELL:
Maiden Test as Keeper: 107* vs WI 2017
Maiden Test as Opener: 15 & 121 vs AUS 2019Only the 2nd player to🤡 score a Century in maiﷺden Test as keeper & maiden Test as an opener.
[Bre🙈ndon Kuruppu scored 201* on Test debut while playing as ke𒊎eper & as opener]
— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
Player of the Match is Travis Head, for his wonderful first-in👍nings 114.
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau)
