1st ODI: New Zealand v Australia at Auckland on Jan 30, 2017

[mave]

Edit. 9am kickoff

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Lol. Cricinfo is reporting that Wadey has injured himself in the warmups and is out. Finch to captain, Heazlett in, Hanscome with the gloves.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Finch
Head
Smarsh
Hanscome
Maxwell
Stoinos
Heazlett
Faulkner
Cummins
Starc
Hazelwood

 

[JJ]

Poor Wadey, what a let-down for him

 

[TheParraboy]

Thought this match started later, must have read it at NZ time.

Aust won toss and elected to field. Bad luck for Wade, must be gutted. I would have gone for either Marsh or Maxwell over Finch as captain, maybe even Starc

 

[hineyrulz]

We have no hope without our super little mongrel captain Nugget

 

[TheParraboy]

Word

 

[TheParraboy]

To the kiwis familiar with this deck, what's a par score here?

Looks 325 plus?

 

[Twizzle]

man this ground is a postage stamp

 

[TheParraboy]

375 plus?

 

[Twizzle]

Stoinis bowling ?

gee we have some duds in this team

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Eden park is a weird ground to predict.

Short boundaries gives batsmen every opportunity to put a big total on the board, but it also gives a lot of players a false sense of security and they can throw their wickets away thinking the fence is an easy clear.

Only 2 games in the last 5 years have had scores of over 300 in the first innings and the top score is 314. In that time there's been 5 scores under 250 in the first innings.

That's out of 10 completed matches (not including the two washouts).

 

[Twizzle]

Stoinis bowling ?

gee we have some duds in this team

and he gets Bradmanson

 

[TIGER14]

Another great innings from Plodiamson

 

[hineyrulz]

Someone get Stonis on that plane to Indis!!

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Someone get Stonis on that plane to Indis!!

Warney wasn't vocal enough

 

[Twizzle]

Stoinis is actually bowling well.

 

[JJ]

He looks ok especially in NZ conditions

Glad we haven't got 9 team, they'd be banging on about you missing Wade

 

[JJ]

To the kiwis familiar with this deck, what's a par score here?

Looks 325 plus?

Often much lower

Get tired of all the postage stamp talk, it's a rugby stadium, we don't have cricket grounds that can hold big crowds. And anyway the Aussie grounds aren't that huge anyway

 

[yobbo84]

Flattest NZ pitch I've seen in a while. Ball doing nothing. 300 par definitely.