{"id":174909,"date":"2025-10-02T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174909\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:21:17","slug":"australia-beat-new-zealand-in-first-t20-despite-tim-robinson-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174909\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia beat New Zealand in first T20 despite Tim Robinson century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand&#8217;s Tim Robinson scored a century in vain as Australia eased to a six-wicket win in the first T20 in Mount Maunganui.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson was a late addition to the team after all-rounder Rachin Ravindra was ruled out of the series after suffering a major laceration to his face during fielding practice on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson, playing his 13th T20I, scored an unbeaten 106 off 66 balls, including six fours and five sixes, to rescue New Zealand from a top-order collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Black Caps were 6-3 after 10 deliveries, with Josh Hazlewood removing Tim Seifert in the opening over and Ben Dwarshuis striking twice in two balls to account for Devon Conway and Mark Chapman, before Robinson compiled his maiden international century to rebuild their innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, chasing 182 proved a routine task for Australia, with captain Mitchell Marsh bludgeoning 85 off 43 deliveries at the top of the order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s Tim Robinson scored a century in vain as Australia eased to a six-wicket win in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-174909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}