Wasted review is costly for McCullum at Gabba

Off-spinner Nathan Lyon claimed three wickets as Australia wrapped up victory in the first Test over New Zealand at the Gabba by 208 runs.
New Zealand's Trent Boult, left, walks off the field as Australian players celebrate victory on day five of the first Test in Brisbane. Picture:  AP/Tertius Pickard.New Zealand's Trent Boult, left, walks off the field as Australian players celebrate victory on day five of the first Test in Brisbane. Picture:  AP/Tertius Pickard.
New Zealand's Trent Boult, left, walks off the field as Australian players celebrate victory on day five of the first Test in Brisbane. Picture: AP/Tertius Pickard.

Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum showed struck a run-a-ball 80 but once he fell the hosts wrapped up victory inside the first session on the fifth day.

Lyon finished with 3-63, while Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Marsh claimed two wickets apiece after New Zealand resumed on 142-3.

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Ross Taylor went on 165 when he gloved to Steve Smith at second slip off Hazlewood.

James Neesham, in discomfort from a back injury, was next to go, fending to Joe Burns and BJ Watling fell lbw to Lyon after losing their last review.

It proved costly as Smith dived forward to take a catch off Mitchell Marsh that appeared to come off New Zealand captain McCullum’s pad. With no reviews left, McCullum had to go.

Doug Bracewell was dismissed first ball, lbw to Marsh; Tim Southee sliced Hazlewood through gully for four but next ball got a thin edge through to wicketkeeper Peter Nevill and his dismissal was upheld after an Australian review.

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Mark Craig and Trent Boult put on a spirited last-wicket stand of 46 before Starc had Boult edging to Nevill.

Shashank Manohar is set to replace N Srinivasan as International Cricket Council chairman.

Manohar’s anticipated elevation to the role at the top of world cricket administration follows the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s reported decision at its annual meeting to remove Srinivasan as its ICC representative.

Fifty-eight-year-old Manohar, therefore, seems sure to take Srinivasan’s position as ICC chairman, and remain in the role until the end of the initially scheduled tenure - which is June next year.

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