{"id":189183,"date":"2025-10-04T07:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189183\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:42:13","slug":"australia-out-to-overcome-weather-new-zealand-in-t20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189183\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia out to overcome weather, New Zealand in T20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Australia have opted to field first in the third and final Twenty20 against New Zealand after a rain-delayed start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With the second match washed out on Friday, wet weather continues to play a major role in Mount Maunganui.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The toss on Saturday was delayed by 15 minutes, with Australia captain Mitch Marsh choosing correctly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Obviously conditions, the pitch has been under the covers and we know there&#8217;s weather around so that&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve bowled,&#8221; Marsh said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Australia retained the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy due to the second match being abandoned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They won the first game, meaning even a Black Caps win on Saturday wouldn&#8217;t be enough for them to regain the trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both teams went in unchanged after just 13 balls were bowled in the second match on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AUSTRALIA: Mitch Marsh (capt), Travis Head, Matt Short, Tim David, Alex Carey, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Sean Abbott, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW ZEALAND: Tim Seifert, Devon Conway, Tim Robinson, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Michael Bracewell (capt), Jimmy Neesham, Matt Henry, Ben Sears, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia have opted to field first in the third and final Twenty20 against New Zealand after a rain-delayed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,116758,3453,120142,1736,44,116756,47567],"class_list":["post-189183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daryl-mitchell","tag-mitch-marsh","tag-mount-maunganui","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-tim-seifert","tag-twenty20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189183","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=189183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}