Hatcher and Perry share eight wickets with pink ball for Australia A
New Zealand A 277 (Kelly 69, Perry 4-41, Hatcher 4-77) vs Australia A
The benefit swung a number of instances on the opening day of the pink-ball encounter between Australia A and New Zealand A in Mackay, but it surely was the house facet who edged the honours as Liam Hatcher and Mitchell Perry shared eight wickets.
New Zealand A slipped to 135 for five halfway by the second session, having been solidly positioned on 82 for 1 on the dinner break, when a sixth-wicket stand of 107 between Nick Kelly and Mitchell Hay took cost.
However, Hatcher then burst by with three fast wickets and in all New Zealand A misplaced their final 5 for 35 with Victoria allrounder Perry, the one one of many Australia A quicks to play each four-day video games, returning to say the ultimate two scalps.
The brief supply proved efficient for Hatcher with the outdated ball. The breakthrough got here on the finish of an action-packed over the place Kelly had pulled him over the leg facet for six then been caught at deep sq. leg off a no-ball – one in every of 10 Hatcher bowled within the day – earlier than Hay gloved a pull to the keeper.
Hatcher then did have Kelly caught hooking and took out Adithya Ashok’s off stump with a full supply.
He had earlier eliminated Dean Foxcroft throughout one other productive interval for Australia A after the primary interval. Two balls earlier than Sean Solia, who made 91 within the first match in Brisbane, was trapped lbw from around the wicket by Nathan McAndrew because the pink ball nipped round.
Muhammad Abbas was caught behind off Perry and New Zealand A captain Tom Bruce pulled Ben Dwarshuis to deep sq. shortly after taking a painful blow on the forearm.
New Zealand A received the primary match of the collection at Allan Border Field by 225 runs after preventing again impressively from a poor first day.