***Official*** Bangladesh in New Zealand

[Captain Cricket]

And now Ashraful's gone to a Mills beauty.

 

[Prince EWS]

Test Bowling Averages
Mills 28.08
Martin 32.62
O'Brien 48.20

RadioSport Commentator Conclude:
* Martin is the real deal at test level
* O'Brien has impressed enough to keep his spot
* Mills has struggled to bridge the gap to test level and must be dropped for Gillespie


Good to see the standard of commentary in New Zealand is as good as it is in Australia...

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Jeez. You bastards are hard on O'Brien. He's bowled better than Mills in this test and generated plenty more chances. Ideally, granted, he'd not be in there but exceedingly harsh comments on the lad.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

but some like Sinclair could've gone on to make a higher score than they did.

Do what? He looked worse out there than even Chris Martin. It was a diabolical innings from him.

 

[NZTailender]

Do what? He looked worse out there than even Chris Martin. It was a diabolical innings from him.

Indeed. He could've done more i.e. batted better :P

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Indeed. He could've done more i.e. batted better :P

Dubious to say the least. He was batting with a pool cue against a ballbearing out there today. Shocking. The men who should have done better were Fleming and McCullum - they looked nicely set and got out with silly shots. I'll let Vettori off as he was trying to force the score with only O'Brien and Martin to bat with.

 

[NZTailender]

Dubious to say the least. He was batting with a pool cue against a ballbearing out there today. Shocking. The men who should have done better were Fleming and McCullum - they looked nicely set and got out with silly shots. I'll let Vettori off as he was trying to force the score with only O'Brien and Martin to bat with.

Yeah, agreed. I thought Fleming was on track for a century today.
The little charge and loft that ended in a dropped catch was awful though. Must've been a pretty poor brain explosion there.

 

[Raghav]

Dubious to say the least. He was batting with a pool cue against a ballbearing out there today. Shocking. The men who should have done better were Fleming and McCullum - they looked nicely set and got out with silly shots. I'll let Vettori off as he was trying to force the score with only O'Brien and Martin to bat with.

I could add Sinclair to the list that you mentioned. Sinclair got the opportunity to score big but he did not utilize it. I thought Bell will again score a ton in this test. He disappointed me. I expect he performs well against England to solve NZ opening woes.

 

[Halfpast_Yellow]

How scored 73 in a state shield ODI today, continuing his run of good form. Sunday Star times said today Craig Cumming has done enough to keep his spot for England with his last innings, while Ian Smith didn't appear to agree, and he and Richardson were of the opinion it would be a carrot to have the same guy opening ODIs and Tests.

What do you think? I'm biased towards How.

 

[Captain Cricket]

Bangladesh 5/51. Looking at innings defeat...

 

[Prince EWS]

How scored 73 in a state shield ODI today

DWTA.

 

[Halfpast_Yellow]

DWTA.

I'm not sure what that means

 

[James]

I'm not sure what that means

DWTA = Disagree With The Above

 

[Craig]

I'm not sure what that means

You called it an ODI, One Day International, which it isn't and that's what PEWS is disagreeing with. But your a top bloke so we'll forgive you

 

[Halfpast_Yellow]

Oh @#$%! I did too!

I put it down to getting up early and having a long day in the sun

State Shield one day game....

Though How did make a couple of 70+ scores in the last ODI series

Thanks for explaining the acronyms, seen them a bit and hadn't figured it out.

 

[Raghav]

How was asked to come to SA for ODI series and he somehow could manage good scores. He failed in Aus along with his teammates. That is understandable. For the ODI series against BAN, he was selected and he got some good partnerships. He was asked to sit down for tests. I personally think that he is always a choice as a good opening test player. Selectors might have used this BAN test series to decide between Cumming and Bell. For the Eng series, I believe if Bell opens along with How, NZ can perform better. Cumming needs to be asked to sit aside and play domestic for a while.

 

[stumpski]

When they're looking for crumbs of comfort to take out of this series, Bangladesh will be encouraged that they dismissed New Zealand for under 400 in both Tests - and with better support from the fielders might have done better still. And Habibul Bashar made the dozen runs he needed to become the first Bangladeshi to make 3000 runs in Tests (Ashraful is a long way short still). Hopefully he'll get 50 tomorrow and take his side past the 100, but he's more likely to go in the first ten minutes.

 

[Dick Rockett]

Jeez. You bastards are hard on O'Brien. He's bowled better than Mills in this test and generated plenty more chances. Ideally, granted, he'd not be in there but exceedingly harsh comments on the lad.

AWTA.

I thought Bell will again score a ton in this test. He disappointed me.

He got a duff decision from the umpire so you can hardly blame him for getting not many.

Sunday Star times said today Craig Cumming has done enough to keep his spot for England with his last innings

Actually, Jonathan Millmow said that, and Jonathan Millmow is a ****ing idiot. Other gems from him in recent memory were that Bangladesh were a threat to us after the South African and Australian series, and today's article which opines that this current test should be stricken from the record. Millmow is a hack who rants like a mindless radio talkback caller and should be fired.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Actually, Jonathan Millmow said that, and Jonathan Millmow is a ****ing idiot. Other gems from him in recent memory were that Bangladesh were a threat to us after the South African and Australian series, and today's article which opines that this current test should be stricken from the record. Millmow is a hack who rants like a mindless radio talkback caller and should be fired.

I could not agree more. My flatulence talks more sense than Millmow and I have notoriously babbling flatulence.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Bell having a poor game in the field. 3 dropped catches now (to offset the couple that he's taken). Still, only fair to give a few back to the Bangas after the let offs they gave us. Not sure whether Bell should be givin' em chances though. Maybe Skippy owes them a couple though.