{"id":182522,"date":"2025-10-01T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182522\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:35:09","slug":"australia-easily-beat-nz-in-t20-despite-robinson-ton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182522\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia easily beat NZ in T20 despite Robinson ton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitch Marsh’s man-of-the-match innings vindicated his risky toss call and paced Australia to a dominating T20 win over New Zealand.<\/p>\n

The six-wicket win with 21 balls to spare on Wednesday was the Australian men’s 15th in their last 17 T20s.<\/p>\n

Tim Robinson scored 106no – his maiden international white-ball century – as New Zealand rallied from a disastrous start to reach 6-181 in the day-nighter at Mount Maunganui.<\/p>\n

It looked a tricky run chase, especially given the team batting first has a strong record at the venue.<\/p>\n

But Marsh and his fellow top-order batsmen hammered the home attack in the cold and blustery conditions and cruised to 4-185 in the opening game of the Chappell-Hadlee series.<\/p>\n

Australia have held the trophy since 2017 and the remaining games are on Friday and Saturday at the same venue.<\/p>\n

Marsh top-scored with 85 from 43 balls, including nine fours and five sixes. He and Travis Head (31) made a blistering start of 67 in six overs that took the game decisively away from the home team.<\/p>\n

Matt Short (29) then combined with Marsh for a 68-run stand.<\/p>\n

“It is nice when you come out and Travis Head and Mitch Marsh have gone berserk. It would be up there with the better hitting I’ve seen,” Short said.<\/p>\n

\"Short\"<\/p>\n

Matt Short loved playing with freedom after Marsh and Travis Head made a lightning start. (Stefan Gosatti\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

“That in itself almost takes the pressure off me a little bit, just to come in play my natural way and try to keep the run rate going.”<\/p>\n

New Zealand were 3-6 in the second over and in dire straits, with Ben Dwarshuis on a hat-trick.<\/p>\n

The Australian captain stuck with his field-first policy, despite Tauranga’s Bay Oval historically favouring the side that bats first.<\/p>\n

That looked like it might hold as Tim Robinson led the home team’s recovery. He scored his first white-ball international century, ending the innings with a four and a six to reach 106no from just 66 balls, with six fours and five sixes.<\/p>\n

Robinson and Daryl Mitchell (34) had a partnership of 92 – a fourth-wicket record for Australia-New Zealand men’s T20s.<\/p>\n

\"Robinson\"<\/p>\n

Century-maker Tim Robinson rescued New Zealand’s innings. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n

The Australians’ fielding was below-par, with Robinson dropped three times and also benefitting from a missed stumpings.<\/p>\n

While Head dropped two chances, he was also involved in the highlight of the match late in the New Zealand innings.<\/p>\n

Marcus Stoinis stopped a boundary and flicked the ball between his legs to Head, whose excellent throw caught Bevon Jacobs just short for 20.<\/p>\n

The absence of Glenn Maxwell with a fractured arm could have been a significant blow to Australia, but their batting was too good.<\/p>\n

A century went begging for Marsh when he holed out to Robinson at deep cover.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been playing some really good cricket. It’s obviously a long build to this T20 World Cup (next February), but we’re finding our own formula,” Marsh said.<\/p>\n

“If anything, I probably feel under more pressure to get off to a good start, with the power we have.”<\/p>\n

\"Dwarshuis\"<\/p>\n

Ben Dwarshuis (l) was on a hat-trick against New Zealand in their T20 international. (Darren England\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

Dwarshuis took 2-40 and New Zealand’s Matt Henry snared 2-43, while Australian leg-spinner Adam Zampa only gave up 0-27 from his four overs.<\/p>\n

The tourists wore black armbands for Alex Carey, whose father Gordon died last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitch Marsh’s man-of-the-match innings vindicated his risky toss call and paced Australia to a dominating T20 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,3453,1736,44,102426,44867],"class_list":["post-182522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mitch-marsh","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-tim-robinson","tag-travis-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}