The Trans-Tasman series promised to provide much entertainment and gripping cricket given the recent imposing form of the visitors and the unsettled home line-up coming off an Ashes loss and a cancelled tour of Bangladesh. In many ways it has delivered, but sadly for the Kiwis it has been the Australians providing all of the above. Tension usually surrounds an Australian getting near a three-figure milestone. For a while it looked like it could be four figures in David Warner's case. The New Zealand attack aren't poor but they certainly have bowled very poorly, so poorly in fact that it is difficult to get a proper perspective on the standard of the Australian order. Steve Smith has won both...
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