Marshall on song as Warne slips up

Australia were given a rare taste of their own medicine today as Hamish Marshall's unbeaten century took New Zealand to 265 for three on the first day of the First Test in Christchurch.

Marshall, in his third Test, hit 14 boundaries in his 195-ball ton and was 103 not out the close.

He shared a second-wicket stand of 97 with opener Craig Cumming, who made 74 on his debut after the Kiwis had been put in by Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting.

Shane Warne dismissed captain Stephen Fleming, but dropped Cumming in the slips off Glenn McGrath before he had made his fifty.