Published 16:29 IST, December 16th 2019
Aus vs NZ: Adam Gilchrist roasts Matthew Wade in hilarious tweet after repeated body blows
AUS vs NZ: Wade was seen struggling all along while facing Wagner's bouncers but somehow managed to save his wicket by taking the hits on his body. Read more.
Advertisement
Australia trumped New Zealand in first of 3-match Test series at Perth. hosts won clash by 296 runs as New Zealand failed miserably to match up to Australia's standards. Marnus Labuschagne's 143 and 51 helped Australia reach a massive total and bowlers played ir part prominently. However, rest of Australian batsmen did t really impress as such. One of m was Matw We, who was seen taking back-to-back blows while facing New Zealand left-arm pacer Neil Wagner on Day 4 at Perth Stium.
Advertisement
Aus vs NZ: am Gilchrist trolls Matw We
We was seen struggling all along while facing Wagner, who was bowling from round wicket, on a negative line and length. batsman somehow mand to save his wicket by opting to take many blows on his body. Australia legend am Gilchrist took to Twitter to put some ice on We's burns. He posted a picture from famous movie 'Happy Gilmore' in which am Sandler can be seen taking baseball-shots to his he and body while being in a batting c. Aussie captioned picture with We's name ahe of Sandler. Fans were left in splits with Gilchrist's creativity.
Advertisement
Matw We later revealed that he took one for team as he did t want to give his wicket cheaply as his teammates did. We eventually threw it away off Colin de Grandhomme's bowling after scoring just 17 runs. While talking about We's innings, former Australia batsman Michael Hussey remarked that We was finding Wagner really tough to play and he planned to allow ball to hit his body. Hussey furr ded that We did t intend to play too many shots as he was finding it hard to play pull shots against Wagner on Day 3 because of pink ball getting softer as game progressed.
Advertisement
Watch here:
Advertisement
12:16 IST, December 16th 2019