Horror day for Williamson at MCG
When Kane Williamson leaned back and skied an ambitious pull shot, the Melbourne crowd roaring, his head slumped in shame.
A poor shot by a usually diligent batsman, it completed the Friday horrors for New Zealand’s captain whose team was battered first by centurymaker Travis Head, then Australia’s ruthless 140kmh-plus pace attack on day two of the Boxing Day test.
Too big, too fast, too strong. And several notches above their Kiwi counterparts.
There’s only one potential winner of this second cricket test and Australia are at microscopic odds after the Black Caps limped to stumps 44-2 in reply to the hosts’ 467 off a marathon 155.1 overs.
Ross Taylor and dogged opener Tom Latham (9 off 57 balls) will resume on day three, a mammoth task for the senior men to bat, and bat, to avoid MCG defeat. Taylor survived after being given lbw fourth ball to James Pattinson, his decision review system challenge showing the ball bouncing over.
Before a crowd of 59,676 – a combined 140,000 on the first two days – Williamson (9) followed the recalled Tom Blundell (15) back up the players’ tunnel in the lengthening shadows.
What an introduction it was for Blundell, a middle order man opening for the first time against Mitchell Starc breathing fire, the slips standing almost in the next postcode.
The first one was 148kmh and he started promisingly, working Starc off his pads and producing two Williamson-like glides off the back foot to the rope. One flew off a length and beat everyone, including gloveman Tim Paine.
Pat Cummins ended Blundell’s
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