Australia defeated New Zealand by three wickets in the second and final Test match played at Hagley Oval, Christchurch. In this match, all the players from Australia performed very well and played an important role in the victory of their team. New Zealand players failed to show good performance in the second test also. Australia won this two-Test series by 2-0.

Let us tell you, Australia had won the first test by 172 runs and now they won this second test also. After the end of the match, Australian captain Pat Cummins praised his team profusely. Pat Cummins once again won the hearts of many people with his batting and he scored 32* runs in the second innings. Not only this, Alex Carey played the match-winning inning of 98* runs while Mitchell Marsh contributed 80 runs.

According to cricket.com.au, Pat Cummins said, ‘There may be some players who may be thinking that we should have scored a little more runs in the last few matches, but this summer all the players have performed brilliantly and helped their team win. Has played an important role. Sometimes we did not play our best cricket but we won the match. Our performance in the last few summers was not so good. We also performed very well together in the ODI World Cup and that is why we won it.

Alex Carey also presented his side

After the match was over, Alex Carey said, ‘I enjoy facing such a challenge. I think all the players have performed very well in this situation. In the last 7 or 8 matches, we have won matches under pressure and in this match also our performance was very good.

Let us tell you, Australia needed 279 runs to win this match. At one time the team had lost its 5 wickets for just 80 runs. At that time it seemed that New Zealand would easily win this match but after that Mitchell Marsh and Alex Carey batted tremendously and led their team to victory.