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<\/p>\nAustralia have retained the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy after rain washed out the second Twenty20 International against New Zealand at Mount Maunganui.<\/p>\n
The inclement weather denied the Kiwis the chance at holding the trophy for a fourth consecutive series.<\/p>\n
The tourists’ hopes of securing victory in the three-match series now hinge on winning the final match on Saturday, when the weather is expected to fine up.<\/p>\n
But success in Wednesday’s series opener has left Mitch Marsh’s side 1-0 ahead and unable to be overtaken by the Black Caps.<\/p>\n
Play did not begin until 9.30pm on Friday – some two hours 15 minutes after the scheduled time.<\/p>\n
Australia lost the toss and were made to bat first in a game condensed to nine overs per side.<\/p>\n
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Matt Henry of New Zealand (L) bowls past Travis Head of Australia during the Chappell\u2013Hadlee T20I Series (Source: Photosport)<\/p>\n
A glorious six from Marsh (9 not out) over long on was the only highlight for Australia, who lost their other opener in Travis Head (5) in the second over.<\/p>\n
Head miscued an in-swinger from Jacob Duffy (1-13) and found himself caught by a loping Devon Conway at backward point.<\/p>\n
Rain forced the covers back on after the first ball of the third over with Australia 1-16 and 6.5 overs left in their innings.<\/p>\n
The match was abandoned just before 10pm.<\/p>\n
“Days like today are always difficult for both teams,” said Marsh.<\/p>\n
“You’re waiting around all day. Obviously we do our best to try and get a game in, for the crowd especially, who hung around very patiently.<\/p>\n
“But the weather won out today.”<\/p>\n
Australia had called Sean Abbott in for Ben Dwarshuis in the only change to the XI that won the series opener.<\/p>\n
It comes as selectors deliberate which paceman will replace Mitch Starc in their frontline attack at next year’s World Cup following the big left-armer’s retirement from T20Is earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia have retained the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy after rain washed out the second Twenty20 International against New Zealand at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6429,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-59361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-black-caps","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}