Chappell Hadlee Trophy News

Glenn Phillips proved to be the pivotal act on Saturday with a maiden Test fifer to help bowl out Australia for 164. However, the 204-run first-innings deficit along with three early wickets meant the Kiwis were left chasing history albeit Rachin Ravindra's unbeaten fifty kept their chances alive.

Dire situations call for unlikely heroes to deliver miracles and when the chips were down for the Kiwis in Wellington, Glenn Phillips emerged as their savior. The part-timer spun his way to a stunning maiden five-wicket haul and matched the scale of his feat with an equally memorable celebration.

The Elite Panel of Umpires is as exclusive a list as Test-nations featuring the very best, yet even two of its most esteemed members struggled to make sense of the shenanigans in Wellington. The last wicket Australian pair mindlessly ran across the creases in a cat-and-mouse game of taking strike.

Australia survived a four-pronged Kiwi seam attack on the opening day of the Trans-Tasman series despite a middle-order collapse to end on 279/9. Cameron Green scored a sensational ton in a coming-of-age knock on a treacherous green deck in Wellington even as Matt Henry ran rampant with four scalps.