1st Test: New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Wellington, Dec 15-19 2018 - MATCH DRAWN

[JJ]

It's almost like Wagner needs to bowl a pile of shit and get smashed so that he can get annoyed enough to bowl well...

 

[Iafeta]

Sri Lanka will have a lead soon enough lol

 

[WaznTheGreat]

New GOATland

 

[JJ]

New GOATland

Guess I still wonder exactly what Lyon is the greatest at? Australia's greatest finger spinner? Maybe - but that's a bit like being Australia's greatest baseball player, or the best batter in their current XI

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Guess I still wonder exactly what Lyon is the greatest at? Australia's greatest finger spinner? Maybe - but that's a bit like being Australia's greatest baseball player, or the best batter in their current XI

Steven Adams >Andrew Bogut

 

[TheParraboy]

Guess I still wonder exactly what Lyon is the greatest at? Australia's greatest finger spinner? Maybe - but that's a bit like being Australia's greatest baseball player, or the best batter in their current XI

Or maybe
Couple of years ago when Wade was calling Lyon ‘bowled Gary’ because of same surname as the afl player - wait for it Gary Lyon. That the next step was born. You can look up ‘Gary the goat ‘ online

Nothing but a piss take, but it has stuck

 

[JJ]

Or maybe
Couple of years ago when Wade was calling Lyon ‘bowled Gary’ because of same surname as the afl player - wait for it Gary Lyon. That the next step was born. You can look up ‘Gary the goat ‘ online

Nothing but a piss take, but it has stuck

We know nothing of AFL - keen to keep it that way!

 

[TheParraboy]

We know nothing of AFL - keen to keep it that way!

Im glad you included "of AFL" in that sentence, might have believed you more otherwise....

 

[JJ]

Sri Lankans putting a fight

153/3 Mendis 81* Mathews 50*

 

[Iafeta]

Good stuff Sri Lanka. Have played the bully well and sat on the other blokes with ease.

Awful bowling effort today. Wagners performance is completely unacceptable

 

[JJ]

213/3 Mendis 106* Mathews 82*

Very good century for Mendis, Lankans doing it easy atm

 

[JJ]

BOWLING O M R W ECON WD NB
TG Southee 16.3 6 29 2 1.75 0 0
TA Boult 16 2 37 1 2.31 0 0
N Wagner 18 0 98 0 5.44 4 1
C de Grandhomme 11 3 17 0 1.54 0 1
AY Patel 20 6 36 0 1.80 0 0

WTF Neil

 

[Iafeta]

Wagner is being treated like the park cricketer he is. He’s got away with it for years because t20 interests imo have ripped out players being able to defend well consistently off the back foot. Here he is being shown to be a one trick pony against some good dogged batting.

Congratulations to Sri Lanka.

 

[JJ]

Fine 100 for Mathews too

Basin being the Basin.

 

[jargan83]

Wow, what a partnership these two have put on.

 

[JJ]

All day... all day

Well batted

 

[Hutty1986]

Holy shit, only just saw the score. Honestly expected this game to be well and truly over today. Cricinfo saying 90% chance of rain tomorrow for day 5. What an insane turnaround.

 

[Meth]

Holy shit, only just saw the score. Honestly expected this game to be well and truly over today. Cricinfo saying 90% chance of rain tomorrow for day 5. What an insane turnaround.

That’s Test cricket!

And yeah- our bowling has been pretty shit, Southee aside. Patel, de Grandhomme and Wagner have not really been at all menacing.

 

[JJ]

And why test cricket is so much more interesting than other forms... the wicket got better, some low bounce now, we might have a shot today, but the weather will almost certainly ensure a draw...

Simply didn't bowl well enough - to me while they weren't threatening, at least they kept the runs down - Wagner was incredibly bad... bad day for NZ, I wonder if in addition to the flat wicket the travel left them a bit flat

 

[Hutty1986]

And why test cricket is so much more interesting than other forms... the wicket got better, some low bounce now, we might have a shot today, but the weather will almost certainly ensure a draw...

Simply didn't bowl well enough - to me while they weren't threatening, at least they kept the runs down - Wagner was incredibly bad... bad day for NZ, I wonder if in addition to the flat wicket the travel left them a bit flat

Test cricket is one beautiful muthaf**ker