West Indies tour of NZ

[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.

[MN5]

I never thought I'd see the day that former pie afficianado Matt Henry ended up with a better bowling average than Boult, Wags and Southee......but here we are.

He's at his home ground, time to have a good lunch, come out firing and get it even better.

[canefan]

@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:

I never thought I'd see the day that former pie afficianado Matt Henry ended up with a better bowling average than Boult, Wags and Southee......but here we are.

He's at his home ground, time to have a good lunch, come out firing and get it even better.

Make the fielders stay out all lunchtime for catching practice

[Cyclops]

Chanderpaul has managed to push his average past 30 now.

[MN5]

DRS does its job. Hope gloves one to Latham off Duffy.

100/3

[MN5]

Henry gets Chase for a duck. Good catch from Latham. Windies 106/4.

[Chris B.]

Bang, bang Hope and Chase go in quick succession. Likely to happen with this Windies line-up, but we certainly needed it.

Now we need Chanders Jr. quite quickly, as well.

[Cyclops]

Roston Chase is a passable 7 or a really good 8. Badly miscast at 5. Greaves the same.

[MN5]

@Cyclops said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Roston Chase is a passable 7 or a really good 8. Badly miscast at 5. Greaves the same.

You know your cricket, Boomfah ! Henry with three !

[MN5]

Comment on cricinfo ( probably stolen from @virgil )

"Is this live? Fees like a match from yesteryear, whereby Chanderpaul stands alone."

[Cyclops]

120/5 at tea. Good session for us, Windies weak middle order exposed. Good opportunity to get a decent first innings lead with a good final session. This partnership is the key. Imlach the last guy who will really be able to offer resistance.

[nzzp]

Fun fact

both NZ and WINDIES were 123/4

one two three for five

[MN5]

Chanderpaul finally gets to 50 off 165. Gutsy innings.

[MN5]

GONE

Conway finally takes a catch and an excellent one at that. Chanderpaul gone bowled Foulkes.

[Cyclops]

Conway holds onto the hardest of the three to finally get arid of him. I believe the drops were 5, 24 and now out for 52. So not that many runs really.

[MN5]

Windies tail looks pretty weak if Roach is batting 8. Time to clean them up Henry !

[Donsteppa]

Bracewell now with a brain explosion at second slip.

[Bovidae]

What is it with Wellington players dropping catches?

Mitchell would have caught that.

[Chris B.]

FFS!

That's going to be a goober for Mitch Jr!

The Channel 9 commentators from the 80s would have an absolute field day on our catching efforts!

[Crazy Horse]

I did not know they had done that at the old Lancaster Park site. I like it.