2nd Test: New Zealand v Bangladesh at Wellington March 8-12 2019

[edabomb]

To be fair, they are playing the bloody second best Test team in the world

Minus a couple of key players also admittedly. They did improve a fair bit in their first ten tears, they seem to have barely improved since then.

 

[Meth]

Give Wagner a break. Boult and Southee time

 

[Meth]

Minus a couple of key players also admittedly. They did improve a fair bit in their first ten tears, they seem to have barely improved since then.

Yeah I talked about this elsewhere. Their emergence has coincided with the T20 era and they are better at that, understandably. They are currently ranked one spot behind Australia in ODI’s, in fact

 

[Meth]

Smith getting stuck into Bidwell. Good stuff

 

[Meth]

Raval bloody shelled that one

 

[Meth]

Yuck. Southee is bowling awfully and you get the feeling like he is really letting Bangladesh off the hook at a crucial time

 

[Meth]

Boult with a wicket just before Tea

 

[Bazal]

Look there are only two kinds of leave, and that was one of them

 

[Iafeta]

Lol mustafizur. Horrible leave. No idea. No wonder he’s averaging 3.5.

Excellent over from Boult, getting some reverse I think.

 

[Iafeta]

Here. Catch this.

This mob. They try way too many million dollar shots.

 

[Iafeta]

Their lower order is the equivalent of

Willie Watson
Venkatapathy Raju
Brett Schultz
Phil Tufnell

What’s their first class structure like? A succession of t20s? If they could give up the million dollar or out nonsense they’d be a fair batting unit.

Except for the tail.

 

[Meth]

That descended quickly

 

[Iafeta]

What an absolute champion. Ewen Chatfield. The Naenae Express. Brought back to life after being struck on the temple in his first test, and then goes onto have a fantastic international career. Perfect foil for Hadlee.

And that partnership against Pakistan to win the test with Jeremy Coney. Just a legend.

And he’s just a knockabout down to earth taxi driver.

Great man

 

[Iafeta]

Jayed and Ebadot are showing just how poorly Boult and Southee were this morning. Seam up, hitting on the full side of a good length, have dismissed Latham and are causing Raval all manner of problems.

 

[lockyno1]

Raining again

 

[TheParraboy]

Match abanded for day 3

kiwis 173 behind on the 1st innings, 8 wickets left

If we get 2 full days + extra time could still be a result

 

[JJ]

NZ 188/3 , Williamson just out for 74, Luteru 102* from 99 balls, 18th century for the old dog who seems to be better than ever atm

 

[TheParraboy]

3/198

Try and get 150 or so ahead and declare tonight?

 

[Meth]

Time to really put the foot down. Put the pads on CDG. Score another 120 runs in 25-30 overs and then have a crack at them for 15-20 overs tonight. NZ are no chance of losing here.

 

[Meth]

Smart 50 up from Nicholls.

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