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Top effort by our batsmen in the end getting just over 400… Christ, the outfield is a hell of a slow, if we can keep the bowling tight with good fielding there’s every chance we can get a decent lead & really apply the pressure on the Paki’s for a change.
With them being 281 for 6 we’re in a pretty good position… our lower order batsmen look to be quite a bit better than theirs, so if we can pick up an early wicket { especially Ahmed } we can really apply the blowtorch to them.
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Unfortunately we couldn’t knock over Ahmed early, only have lead of 10, instead of a very handy margin.
Our openers were going along great guns until Latham was sawn-off, shocking fuckin’ decision, there was no clear evidence to give him out, therefore the decision should of obviously gone in favour of the batsman… well done Taylor, 77 not out so far, haven’t seen any of his batting, must of worked heaps on his technique against spinners to still be there, hope we can add at least another 50 runs or so.
Our spinners performed poorly on the 5th day, bowled too short & wide & didn’t use the footmarks enough… that said, it was a massive improvement from the 1st test, weren’t able to force the win but won more sessions than them, so gives us some momentum going into the last test.
Hopefully we win the toss.
3rd Test
Tonight – 7pm
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That was like watching ODI batting last night, great stuff !
Obviously NZ are showing a ton of respect for Hughes by not bowling any bouncers, this pitch has a bit more pace than the other two, but by not bowling bouncers on these slow piches it’s allowed us to apply quite a bit more pressure on Pakistan & Craig has cashed in on it… outstanding controlled aggression by McCullum, poor bowling by Pakistan though, overdone the bouncers, especially on these sort of wickets, which McCullum is taking full advantage of, hope it continues & they don’t wake up by bowling fuller & straighter.
With them winning the toss looked like they were going to get 500 plus, now we’re in an excellent position to put the squeeze on them.
NZ went really well in the 2nd test, but going even better in this 3rd one, we hit 22 6’s, breaking the world record for the number of 6’s in a test innings.
We have Pakistan 30 for 3 & they still trail by 309… brilliant swing bowling by Boult & Southee.
Superb test win by NZ… went to bed about 1am, with Shafiq being such a good player of spin found it a very strange tactic that we continued to bowl spin from both ends for long periods.
Would of given McCullum Man Of The Match over Craig… it was McCullum’s excellent run rate that gave us the momentum to put us in the position to win the match, scoring a great double hundred.
NZ v Pakistan { 1st 20/20 }
Fri-5th Dec – 5am
Sky Sport 1NZ Squad for : two 20/20’s & Five ODI’s –
Kane Williamson (c)
Corey Anderson
Dean Brownlie
Anton Devcich
Martin Guptill
Matt Henry
Tom Latham
Mitchell McClenaghan
Natham McCullum
Kyle Mills
Adam Milne
James Neesham
Luke Ronchi
Ross Taylor
Daniel Vettorihttp://www.blackcaps.co.nz/news-items/williamson-to-captain-blackcaps
After drawing the test & 20/20 series the 5. ODI’s will be very interesting.
1st ODI
Mon-8th Dec – 11pm
Sky Sport 1.http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/63901841/upbeat-black-caps-seek-fast-starts-in-odi-series
Wider World Cup Squad of 30… going to be reduced to 15 in 4 weeks time, with Ryder consistently acting like an idiot didn’t deserved to get selected.
Hamish Bennett (Canterbury)
Trent Boult (Northern Knights)
Doug Bracewell (Central Stags)
Neil Broom (Canterbury)
Dean Brownlie (Northern Knights)
Colin de Grandhomme (Auckland Aces)
Anton Devcich (Northern Knights)
Grant Elliott (Wellington Firebirds)
Andrew Ellis (Canterbury)
James Franklin (Wellington Firebirds)
Martin Guptill (Auckland Aces)
Matt Henry (Canterbury)
Roneel Hira (Canterbury)
Tom Latham (Canterbury)
Mitchell McClenaghan (Auckland Aces)
Brendon McCullum (Otago Volts)
Nathan McCullum (Otago Volts)
Kyle Mills (Auckland Aces)
Adam Milne (Central Stags)
Colin Munro (Auckland Aces)
James Neesham (Otago Volts)
Rob Nicol (Auckland Aces)
Luke Ronchi (Wellington Firebirds)
Hamish Rutherford (Otago Volts)
Tim Southee (Northern Knights)
Ross Taylor (Central Stags)
Daniel Vettori (Northern Knights)
BJ Watling (Northern Knights)
Kane Williamson (Northern Knights)http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/63932773/black-caps-name-wider-world-cup-squad-of-30
shocker !…Should never of lost that one, had them 86 for 5, just didn’t keep the pressure on.
Strange call to send McCullum, Southee & Boult home ???
final ODI 19 December, Boxing Day Test starts, er, Boxing Day.
Both bearing in mind this ODI series isn’t really part of the World Cup preparation. Just part of the standard programme of reciprocal tours. Be good to have a first-choice team on the park but in the grander scheme it’s more valuable for them to be playing when Pakistan visits here in January.
Great that we’re back to playing more tests on Boxing Day.
With all the other regulars still playing in the ODI’s it’s a bit mind-boggling
they sent the other 3 players back home to prepare for the home series.I guess some minds are more easily boggled than others.
NZ picked six specialist bowlers for the Test trip to the UAE (Southee, Bracewell, Boult, Wagner, Craig, Sodhi) and it seems reasonable to assume the attack for the Boxing Day Test will be drawn from that group. Extensive analysis reveals that in fact none of these players are in the UAE for this one-day series.
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