Pakistan tour of New Zealand 2020/21, (3 T20's, 2 Tests)

[JJ]

Blundell will be given first crack, with Dane Cleaver as his back up. Blundell is already 30 and Cleaver will be 30 later this year. Think ideally the selectors would want Seifert to be the long term keeper once Blundell retires. Not sure his keeping is up to the required standard though.

Blundell first, not sure on Cleaver don’t think he’s the next option

hopefully they go younger, not sure how old Seifert is but I’d like to see Phillips keep more, Horne, others... many good options but Watling and Blundell will have the test job for a while

 

[Meth]

Williamson brings up his 50

good partnership this. Swinging it in NZ’s favour

 

[JJ]

The no balls have been costly for them, no excuse really

 

[Meth]

50 for Nicholls. Rode his luck early on to say the least, but he’s batted well since then

 

[Meth]

Another Test, another century for Kane.

256/3

 

[JJ]

Another brilliant century

he’s in quite the run of form, fatherhood agrees with him, great to watch

 

[JJ]

Second fifty off 35 balls? Understated shot making...

 

[Meth]

Williamson dropped. Tough chance to be fair, but that bodes well for him to reset. Make it through to stumps

 

[Meth]

Now Williamson survives a very close run out chance

 

[hineyrulz]

NZ’s best bat ever IMO, and I was a massive Crowe fan.

 

[Meth]

200 partnership up.

Highest partnership for the 4th wicket for NZ is 271- Taylor and Ryder v India in Napier

 

[Meth]

New ball taken

 

[Meth]

wow Rizwan drops Nicholls.

Shaheen is gutted.

stump mic, you can hear a Pakistani sledging Nicholls about his luck but their captain just shelled a sitter

 

[JohnDoe]

what's that 6 dropped catches now off Nicholls batting this summer lol.

 

[Meth]

I missed something. Why isn’t Nicholls allowed a runner?

 

[Meth]

Shaheen has been good and a tad unlucky today but this is shit. Nicholls is struggling and just trying to make it through to stumps and he is bowling wide enough that he doesn’t need to play.

 

[Meth]

Nicholls has been a part of a few of these partnerships, looking at the records

 

[Meth]

NZ’s day thanks to Kane and Nicholls and Lady Luck and some crap bowling and fielding

 

[JJ]

I missed something. Why isn’t Nicholls allowed a runner?

No runners any more

 

[JohnDoe]

For all the stick Henry Nicholls gets about being replaced by either Conway or Young. If he score's a cenutry tomorrow, he will be equal 10th alongside the likes of Glen Turner & Andrew Jones with the most test centuries for New Zealand. And will most likely sit comfortably in the top 10 if not the top 5 once he retires.