The Silver Fern

O'Rourke was out in that second innings too, so it was just Henry and the spinners. (Mitchell too I guess). Described as 'stiffness' so hopefully precautionary and he'll be a go for the second match.

Streaming on threenow

Henry outright 10th now. A bit sad that Chats is now out of the top 10.

67/4 at lunch. Feel like we're a batter short with Blundell coming in an 6. Probably won't matter.

Henry with 3 of the wickets. Doesn't have a 10fer in his career yet - they're pretty rare for NZ bowlers not called RJ Hadlee. Maybe this test?

I hope Patel gets a run in the second test - he's close to 100 test wickets, none of which have come at home yet.

Bonkers score card for India's second innings. 2 ducks, 3 centuries and a 90 from the 6 guys to bat.

Stokes a bit grumpy when India declined the draw with both batters in the 80s. Sundar ended up with a maiden test century which is kind of reasonable, but with Harry Brook and Joe Root basically giving them batting practice for the final few overs all feels a bit meaningless. Jadeja at least had the decency to blast his way there, while Sundar nurdled it around.

Good effort from Henry to defend 8 in the final over against two set batters. 2 wickets plus a dropped catch. Another brutal choke in a knock out for the South Africans.

I have no frame of reference for the transfer market anymore. Is 50m even expensive?

Yeah no issues with the bulk mail out given the circumstances. I assume 'we won't don't this again' has an unspoken 'unless we really have to'.

Didn't the forums also use to use someone's personal domain before the switch to forums.thesilverfern.com? So this makes it the third domain that I've used to get here.

Bit disappointed to be honest, I thought Libby was doing pretty well for Empoli in Serie A and was hoping he'd get picked up by another top flight team post relegation, moving to the championship feels like a backwards step to me.

I'm still more annoyed about the South Africans letting the Aussies off the hook, from 21/9 to 50 odd all out.

The crazy thing about our 26 is that we dragged it out for 27 overs. Almost a whole session!

@KiwiPie said in Other Cricket:

Bloody Konstas!

He dropped another catch, and let a non-chance through his hands to concede 4. That probably would have been the record if he could hold onto the ball!

Edit: wait, that wasn't even a drop! The drop was earlier, so two drop catches plus probably 4 runs allowed through misfields.

Mitchell Starc doing Mitchell Starc things. 5fer in 15 balls, including 3 wickets (no hatrick) in the first over of the match.

Once again, an Aussie batters collapse (121 all out) salvaged by this ridiculous bowling attack (West Indies currently 11/6).

Stick a fork in them, they're done. Desperation review is always a sign that a team knows they're cooked.

Yeah first half hour or so will be crucial. Batters will be readjusting to today's conditions, and any nerves will be the highest at the start of the innings. Once they get through a few overs all that will ease.

That said, this is an epic choke if South Africa lose from here. As a stats nerd, I have a formula for the 'life' left in a chase, which is runs remaining divided by wickets remaining minus two. If that's 10 or less, then it's game over. More than that the batting team might be the favourites, but the bowling team have a chance. Right now it's 11.5, but 9 more runs gets it below 10.

Is lords in June really the best time for this game? Still, I'd take 14 wickets over 400/2 on the first day.

I think that makes Fox the second kiwi (male) after Bob Charles to win 2 PGA tour events. I know the earlier one was a second tier event, but still a neat achievement.

I wonder if the extra security will help him to play more freely or if the pressure helped him to play his best.

Be interesting to see where Ange lands now - surely another decent size club will take a chance on him after winning a trophy.

It's kind of remarkable that NZC didn't try to line this up with the coaching appointment.

Yeah feels like Alonso timed his jump to perfection.

I thought Bond was fantastic during his brief spell as our bowling coach, and he's one of the few commentators that actually come across as having a real deep insight of what's happening rather than reacting after the fact, so I'm hopeful that he'd be a success.