Australia players celebrate the wicket of Joe Root late in yesterday's action. Root and Dawid Malan had combined for a 133-run partnership to help steer the tourists to 228 for three when Australia took the second new ball with two or three overs of play remaining. "It was great to get the late reward as a bowling group for our hard toil," said Marsh. So to get those two wickets was great for our confidence and we've got a two-over new ball tomorrow, so hopefully we can get stuck into them." They were chances that Australia would have rued had the day not ended as well for them as it had started.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 04, 2018 16:18 UTC