{"id":126317,"date":"2020-01-05T02:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/05\/australia-v-new-zealand-third-test-day-three-live\/"},"modified":"2020-01-05T02:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T01:37:11","slug":"australia-v-new-zealand-third-test-day-three-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=126317","title":{"rendered":"Australia v New Zealand: third Test, day three \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the third day of play in SydneyAny thoughts? Email or tweet @collinsadam 1.37am GMT Nathan Lyon is speaking to TV. He hasn\u2019t got anything to say, as is the custom with these interviews at the intervals. I have no idea why they bother.With three wickets &#8211; two of those falling with the score on 117 &#8211; Australia take the honours for the morning session. It looked like New Zealand were going to make it to lunch one down but Raval, who was in great touch, missed Lyon\u2019s straight before Latham inexplicably pushed a catch off Cummins to mid-on moments later. Blundell was the early wicket to fall, getting into a tangle off Lyon to put the spinner into the book for the first time. He\u2019s the man most likely to take a bag, even after putting down Phillips in his follow-through when the new man was on 2. We go to the break with the Black Caps still 313 runs behind. A long way to go. 1.31am GMT 55th over: New Zealand 141-3 (Taylor 21, Phillips 3) Travis Head started the session with his off-spin and he\u2019s back now to finish it. I suspect the plan from Paine was to race through the over in 90 seconds so to give Lyon another chance, but Taylor denied them that chance when lashing a half-volley through point for four. Oh, and he does it again to finish &#8211; that\u2019s a lovely stroke. Lyon tries to give his hat over in order to get another one in but they aren\u2019t having it&#8230; that\u2019s LUNCH. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2020\/jan\/04\/australia-v-new-zealand-third-test-day-three-live\" target=\"_blank\">Australia v New Zealand: third Test, day three \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the third day of play in SydneyAny thoughts? Email or tweet @collinsadam 1.37am GMT Nathan Lyon is speaking to TV. He hasn\u2019t got anything to say, as is the custom with these interviews at the intervals. I have no idea why they bother.With three wickets &#8211; two of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}