West Indies tour of NZ

[Chris B.]

@Chris-B said in West Indies tour of NZ:

According to me:

Duffy has a test bowling average of 12.3 and Foulkes is averaging 8.9.

Matt Henry needs to pull finger!

Posted this a couple of weeks back.

Message back from Matt Henry:

"I don't have to do a goddamned thing - 'çept sit on my ass and wait!"

[Chris B.]

Phillips into the attack - in tandem with Patel.

Eleven overs to the new ball. Presumably hoping to get through quickly, cheaply, and with a bit of luck snaffling at least one wicket.

[booboo]

Ok. Fuck this. I'm off to bed. (Wee early afternoon zzz but hoping it works ...)

[canefan]

LBW review coming. Looked high in real time, but Rae isn't that fast or bouncy.

Review lost. Another poor review. Poor intel from the keeper and the bowler

[canefan]

Mitch puts down a very tough chance off "Jazzy". Would have been a corker, in and out. Patel looking more likely than Beasty

[Chris B.]

Starting to look a bit draw-like to me.

We really need a good last session today where we roll them for, say, 400.

Which would leave six sessions and us leading by 175. Invest two sessions scoring 225 and boldly leave them four sessions to make 400?

That's gettable on a flat track if they start well.

[booboo]

@booboo said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Ok. Fuck this. I'm off to bed. (Wee early afternoon zzz but hoping it works ...)

Looks to have worked on Athanze

But they're rolling on, 4 down.

[canefan]

Our attack looks about as impotent as the Willy Watson Murphy Sua days

[canefan]

That looks plumb from Mitch Jr. Only an inside edge will save him. Why can't our full-time bowlers put it on the spot with any consistency? Why don't we heap the pressure onto the new batsman with men around the bat to try and manufacture another wicket? We are 220 ahead FFS

[Chris B.]

Finally we do go bang, bang!

Ajaz gets Chase cheaply.

Still got Hope and Hodge to get through, and presumably Roach can bat even if he can't run. Hope still not coming out, though.

[Cyclops]

Hope's time restrictions will be over now, I wonder if he's not available to bat? Not able to watch at the moment, so only checking score periodically.

[MN5]

Hodge hit in the nuts then gets a hundy.

Well deserved

( the hundred, not the shot in the nuts )

367-6. Trailing by 208, follow on mark damn close now.

[Bovidae]

Rae should have caught that.

[Donsteppa]

He never really looked like he was sure of being under it.

[canefan]

@Bovidae said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Rae should have caught that.

Can't afford to miss chances on a wicket like this

[MN5]

Draw written all over this one.

In saying that the Windies have once again surprised with their fight, even taking into account the surface.

NZ will want to roll them in an hour or so tomorrow to be ANY chance of forcing a result.

[canefan]

@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Draw written all over this one.

In saying that the Windies have once again surprised with their fight, even taking into account the surface.

NZ will want to roll them in an hour or so tomorrow to be ANY chance of forcing a result.

If we had our front line attack it would probably be another story. But we can only ride with what we have

[MN5]

Early wicket from Duffy, nice. Philip caught behind.

Shai Hope coming out now, hopefully still not 100%

I'm not sure I recall a series where so many guys from both teams have had so many injury issues.

[Chris B.]

Hope apparently had food poisoning. If we'd got another couple of wickets yesterday, maybe we wouldn't have had to deal with him at all, but he doesn't last long.

Eight down now and Roach might not bat.

Come on boys - knock them over and open up the chance of a result!

[MN5]

@Chris-B said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Hope apparently had food poisoning. If we'd got another couple of wickets yesterday, maybe we wouldn't have had to deal with him at all, but he doesn't last long.

Eight down now and Roach might not bat.

Come on boys - knock them over and open up the chance of a result!

Windies have done bloody well, I thought even with our depleted bowling stocks that the follow on would be well beyond them.

In saying that all this time they're hanging around is niggly and bloody annoying in terms of getting a result.

NZ will be doing very well to win from here.