Black Caps v Australia

Canes4life

Raining here now so expect delays to start the day.

KiwiMurph

CricInfo also suggesting Kuggeleijn will play

Virgil

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Virgil

@nzzp said in Black Caps v Australia:

#~~thought~~sandp~~rayers~~aper for our bowling attack

fixed it.

nzzp

@Virgil that's bloody marvellous fella

Bovidae

With injuries and retirements, only Latham, Williamson and Southee remain from the WTC final XI.

JK

Won the toss and having a bowl. CougarLion playing as expected

Duluth

Australia 1 Steven Smith, 2 Usman Khawaja, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Cameron Green, 5 Travis Head, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Pat Cummins (capt), 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh Hazlewood

New Zealand 1 Tom Latham, 2 Will Young, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Rachin Ravindra, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Tom Blundell (wk), 7 Glenn Phillips, 8 Scott Kuggeleijn, 9 Matt Henry, 10 Tim Southee (capt), 11 William O'Rourke

Canes4life

Cummins complaining about the wind. Mate, it's a light breeze atm.

Canes4life

Why didn't we go Wagner over SK?

Virgil

Bowling first is probably the right decision, but if we dont pick up 3 or 4 wickets in the first session we could be out there a long time.

JK

Weird seeing Wags out there in the whites but not playing. I assume he will get some fielding time?

Virgil

That cant have been easy for Wags to go through, great to see him leave the field after the anthems giving the playing 11 thumbs up, giving them encouragement.

No Quarter

We are banking on early wickets bowling first or we will get behind the 8 ball very quickly having to bat last.

Comon lads! Knock em over!

JK

Gee that pitch does look green

No Quarter

That last ball swung in and then seamed out. Unplayable.

Virgil

Smith has a unique batting style doesnt he.
Squares up, walks across the crease/stumps

No Quarter

Getting plenty of movement, often too much to get close to the edge.

No Quarter

They didn't appeal because he didn't hit it lol, bloody comms

Chris B.

@No-Quarter Yeah - I thought it looked well worth while going upstairs because it wasn't clear and obvious it had touched the ground!

The Silver Fern

Black Caps v Australia