1st ODI: New Zealand v West Indies at Auckland, Dec 26, 2013

[vvvrulz]

Just got started with NZ batting first.

Ryder's comeback game, unfortunately the Windies are without Gayle, Samuels and Pollard.

 

[vvvrulz]

And he's gone for a duck :lol:

 

[vvvrulz]

NZ shocking start, Guptill gone and Taylor now run out.
Windies bowling beautifully.

 

[Iafeta]

Eden Park for ODIs is becoming very favourable to the captain winning the toss. Same as last year, it's got high bounce, extremely slow, and loads of sideways movement. Bowling team should win comfortably 80% of the time here.

 

[Iafeta]

Williamson just got a leg breaking ball from their opening bowler. McCullum just creamed two long hops and barely got to the boundary. This is a horrifically bad track to bat first on.

 

[Iafeta]

Anderson you dope. Dumb cricket.

 

[Iafeta]

You're a plonker Gary Baxter. Blind as a bat.

 

[vvvrulz]

Anderson batted like an idiot.
McCullum just given lbw hopping two paces down the pitch

 

[Iafeta]

McCullum hit over 3m from the stumps. Hawk eye predicts it barely clips the very outside top of leg stick and yet it stays as out. That far down the wicket with that little amount of the ball hitting the stumps, huge doubt on accuracy over that range, appalling on field umpiring decision backed up by a geniused DRS system.

 

[vvvrulz]

Don't bag DRS here, the ball tracker did exactly what it is supposed to do and that is predict the path of the ball based on the information it has. It showed the ball clipping the stumps and from where it hit McCullum it was quite likely it was going to do that. As a tool it did exactly what was asked of it.

That doesn't stop it being a ridiculous umpiring decision, as an umpire there is no way you can confidently give that out.

 

[vvvrulz]

Nat McCullum is shrewdly farming the strike with the #11, this partnership of 36 is gold.

 

[Iafeta]

Ryder drops a dolly.

 

[Xfactor1979]

Can nz defend 156?

What is the lowest score ever defended?

 

[vvvrulz]

Anything is possible with the Windies, three down already.

 

[Xfactor1979]

I do like the lower scoring odis in contrast to that mindnumbing 7 game series between australia and india

 

[vvvrulz]

I do like the lower scoring odis in contrast to that mindnumbing 7 game series between australia and india

Definitely, why can't conditions favour the bowlers?
This is a good contest and an exciting match.

 

[Xfactor1979]

Yeh, that match where Australia scored 79 (or something?) against Sri Lanka last summer at the Gabba

Doherty and Starc heroics for the 10th wicket got Australia over 50 as far as I remember :lol:

Sri Lanka barely got over the line apparently, they were 6 down (or something) when the score passed 79 in "the chase"

 

[El Diablo]

wtf is the WASP % :?

 

[Xfactor1979]

Player of the match D Sammy

When it should have been Mitch Mccleanaghan

 

[vvvrulz]

wtf is the WASP % :?

Win and Score Predictor.

So in the first innings it predicts a final score and in the second the percentage chance of winning. It takes into consideration things like history at that ground, the teams etc.

Well done West Indies, they needed that even though they made a hash of the run chase.