Tour of Sri Lanka

[nzzp]

Well that is as ugly a shot from Jeet as you'll see.

8/1. Normal n service resumes

[Chris B.]

Jeez Kayne...

[Chris B.]

We're somewhat in the schtumm with some ordinary shots from Jeet, Kane and Rossco.

Need Tom and Henry to come to the party tonight!

[Chris B.]

F*ck you!

Got rid of Tom who scored all of our runs.

64 runs ahead and 6 wickets standing and I have nothing to say about that!

[Donsteppa]

Top order batting this test like they’re still in a Lords ‘hangover’ perhaps.

Heard before the test a theory that CdG would play as the second seamer and to lengthen the batting. Southee did nothing wrong with the ball, but we might have welcomed Colin’s batting at #7 after all...

[rotated]

Southee batting with genuine discipline today. If they can just nudge the lead onto 180-200 by some miracle anything can happen.

[Squirrel]

Good knock by Watling

Man he's a fighter

[Godder]

195/7 at stumps, early finish due to bad light so an early start tomorrow apparently. Lead of 177 thanks mostly to Watling, Latham, Nicholls and Southee. We're in with a chance now but if we can get a few more runs tomorrow, we're in with a reasonable chance.

[Donsteppa]

Hoping we can scape out a few more runs, and then looking forward to seeing Patel bowl in the fourth innings. Nicely in the balance.

[Siam]

Not known for easy 4th innings batting, I think ground has 99 as it's most successful run chase. Good finish coming up I think

[booboo]

261 /9

Reasonable lead.

[Mokey]

@booboo especially considering Kane has made no contributions!

[Godder]

Somerville and Boult doing the business today. Lead of over 250 now - a good chance here.

[Damo]

Plumb as they come.

[Hooroo]

Good boys!!!! What a wag!!!

[LABCAT]

Excellent from the Black Caps and nice timing of the lunch break, almost considering loading up both games on different screens.

[Chris B.]

That could easily be enough - though the pitch doesn't look like it's causing insurmountable problems!

[Cyclops]

@Chris-B said in Tour of Sri Lanka:

That could easily be enough - though the pitch doesn't look like it's causing insurmountable problems!

I think we've got enough that this will be a tough chase in any conditions. But looking at how we went it's definitely not an unchasable target.

[Donsteppa]

So while we've been distracted by the Bledisloe, the Sri Lankan openers have snuck along to 52 off 26 overs.

[ACT Crusader]

@Donsteppa said in Tour of Sri Lanka:

So while we've been distracted by the Bledisloe, the Sri Lankan openers have snuck along to 52 off 26 overs.

We’re in big trouble.