Mitchell Starc Pleased with Debut Performance against New Zealand

Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 12:30 pm , filed under News by Jal Hayden

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Debutant pacer, Mitchell Starc, is pleased to have received the baggy green along with two scalps today, December 1, 2011, in a Test game against New Zealand, played at Brisbane, claiming that he will never be able to forget this auspicious day.

After receiving his Test cap from the former legend, Richie Benaud in the morning, the teenager launched a destructive bowling attack, picking two ace Kiwi batsmen before the lunch break. Starc bowled out the opener, Brendon McCullum, and the maverick middle-order batter, Jesse Ryder, on 34 and 6 runs respectively, breaking down the courage and stamina of the visitors.

The speedster is jubilant at the honour he has bagged on the very first day of his Test career. He asserted that he will never forget the day.

Talking to the media at the end of the first session, Starc said, “It is a day I’ll never forget. Just to get that baggy green (cap) is a pretty proud moment for me and to get a couple of wickets as well is fantastic.”

About the eve of accepting his green cap, he told, “It was a special moment for me and I won’t forget that moment for the rest of my life. He (Benaud) just said a few things that over the last few years he’s been watching me and I actually sat on a plane on the way home with him after an ODI (one dayer) I played here last year.”

The left-arm pacer’s excellent bowling helped his side restrict the Black Caps on 176/5 on the rain-hit Day 1 of the match. Despite this, Strac is not going to take the Kiwis easy tomorrow, avowing that they still have some strong batsmen like Daniel Vettori and Dean Brownlie in their remaining line-up.

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