West Indies tour of NZ

[MN5]

@Virgil said in West Indies tour of NZ:

do any of the windies batsmen average over 30?

no.

30 indicates a competent test batsman and even that should be a minimum for anyone decent.

Most teams would drop guys averaging under 30 but the Windies depth in this form of the game is paper thin so they keep getting selected.

[canefan]

Foulkes needs to make them play forward as much as possible

[Chris B.]

@canefan Yeah - I think he's been a bit short. Looks cool with the ball bending like a banana, but it's probably doing too much and too early.

[MN5]

Really nice tribute to Robin Smith from Ian Bishop.

[canefan]

Not a bad thing seeing the Windies drive on the front foot

[canefan]

Ugh, catch put down!

[MN5]

@canefan said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Ugh, catch put down!

Very tough but still a chance. Bugger, thats a second one.

[Gunner]

Hope looks like he could get the edge any at any time, he really throws the bat weirdly at the ball wide outside his body… not sure how to describe it, but it’s very different!

[MN5]

@Gunner said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Chase looks like he could get the edge any at any time, he really throws the bat weirdly at the ball wide outside his body… not sure how to describe it, but it’s very different!

Jeez give him a break, poor guy hasn't even batted yet !

[Gunner]

@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:

@Gunner said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Chase looks like he could get the edge any at any time, he really throws the bat weirdly at the ball wide outside his body… not sure how to describe it, but it’s very different!

Jeez give him a break, poor guy hasn't even batted yet !

Yea, brain fart. I knew who I was talking about, not sure why I typed the wrong name

[Gunner]

We really need another wicket before lunch. Feels like we’ve been way more on top than the 2 wickets show.

[MN5]

@Gunner said in West Indies tour of NZ:

We really need another wicket before lunch. Feels like we’ve been way more on top than the 2 wickets show.

These two have toughed it out and starting to look a bit better. Just hit their first four.......

Maybe throw Henry at them before lunch ?

[MN5]

Latham is keeping pretty tidily.

If he wasn't captain and opening batsman I wonder if they'd consider him for the next test if Blundell doesn't recover ?

Fairly sure Hay will make his test debut if that is the case.

[nzzp]

@canefan said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Ugh, catch put down!

damnit. again.

[Gunner]

Our shit catching continues

[MN5]

Devon Conway. LVP. That was comfortable at this level.

[Cyclops]

Real test to forget for him so far.

[nzzp]

@Gunner said in West Indies tour of NZ:

God I hate umpires call, if it’s hitting, it’s hitting.

That rule doesn’t make sense to me.

there is a lot of uncertainty in the predictions. Like, a lot. Surveyors use lasers and fixed spots to get within a few millimetres - so some cameras set up 40 m away will always have some error.

The error obvoiusly drops the closer you get to the stumps - but I think it's not unreasonable. The purpose of DRS is to eliminate howlers - so it does that.

[Chris B.]

@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Devon Conway. LVP. That was comfortable at this level.

Yeah - you've got to catch that - and especially when you've already dropped an albeit harder one.

[Cyclops]

Into the last over now. This has been a pretty rough session for us. 3 dropped catches, an umpires call gone against us plus a lot of playing and missing.

Hopefully the catching improves next session. We've kept things tight thought so the two wickets we have got are probably enough for us to have shaded the session but game is still wide open.