1st Test: New Zealand v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Nov 9-13, 2014

[Red Bear]

Apparently ball from Sodhi was a cracker

 

[Twizzle]

3/374

 

[TheParraboy]

tea day 2:

Pak 3/471

Y Khan 65* heading for his 4th ton in 3 tests

 

[edabomb]

We will do very well to draw from here. The batting looks weak with Anderson at 5 - one of the top 4 really need a big one.

 

[Twizzle]

Ahmed Shehzad has a fractured skull.

 

[JJ]

We will do very well to draw from here. The batting looks weak with Anderson at 5 - one of the top 4 really need a big one.

Not sure it's that weak, I like Neesham and Anderson tbh (perhaps not in the same team, but both very talented)... we're pretty much stuffed, but a lot depends on their spinners - and Kane... if we can scrape a draw, it'd be huge I reckon

 

[TheParraboy]

Pak 3/566dec.
NZ 0/15

Not only is Younis Khan getting tons now, they are not out tons

could be a long 3 test series for the kiwis

 

[edabomb]

Not sure it's that weak, I like Neesham and Anderson tbh (perhaps not in the same team, but both very talented)... we're pretty much stuffed, but a lot depends on their spinners - and Kane... if we can scrape a draw, it'd be huge I reckon

I like Anderson but he is more of a 6 IMO. His bowling isn't really good enough to warrant a spot batting below there though - so he does have something to prove at 5.

Neesham is kind of like the new Oram - his bowling will be a bit more redundant at test level but he could still average in the mid 30s with the ball. Very much a batting all rounder - and his batting is more suited to the long game like with Oram too. All IMO of course - I haven't seen a huge amount of Neesham domestically.

 

[Twizzle]

 

[AlwaysGreen]

It amazes me that it took until the late 1970s before players started to wear helmets.

Good to see the seam nice and straight.

 

[Twizzle]

Pretty unlucky how the ball snuck through that little gap.

 

[JJ]

yeah, even with helmets injuries happen... unlucky, a dead wicket and Corey Anderson, not what you'd expect

How good does the great Sir Isaac Alexander Vivian Richards seem now though - no helmet, no thigh pad, more helpful wickets for quicks, and for the most part taking them on, tearing them apart and not getting hit...

 

[Twizzle]

Vivvy didn't mind them short, bowl short to him at your own peril, generally they went over the fence.

 

[JJ]

pretty much stuffed with Williamson gone - easily our best player of spin...

Time for Taylor to play a career defining innings?

 

[Bazal]

Apparently not

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Babar the elephant strikes again.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

NZ 4/132. Pakistan slowly chipping away.

 

[hineyrulz]

Latham playing a good knock so far.

 

[JJ]

Latham played well, a few sloppy shots by others... a better effort in that innings and the test was saveable... not now

 

[TheParraboy]

NZ 3/83, 397 behind

still 32 overs left today