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[Prince EWS]

Daniel Vettori wins the toss and will field first.

Oh, so this game is today?

Pleasant surprise.

Hopefully Foxtel are actually covering it..

 

[Athlai]

How many is that now?

He seems to have a talent for tossing.

I'll see myself out.

 

[Raghav]

pretty good match it would be. Vettori sensibly wants to bowl first on this wicket

 

[Richard]

How many is that now?

He seems to have a talent for tossing.

I'll see myself out.

In all Tests, ODIs and Twenty20Is, Vettori has now won 35 out of 51. That's 69%.

In other news, I cannot believe the "official England team song" is still Lose Yourself by Eminem. Worst song.

No-ball first ball of the innings, free-hit first legit ball. AND Bell nicked it! Then hits the free-hit for a one-bounce four.

 

[Leslie1]

Mills....

Ranking in the top 5 can't save this man. He's a shocker.

 

[Raghav]

Mills needs to get his line & length as early as possible. Not the decent way to start off...

 

[Athlai]

In all Tests, ODIs and Twenty20Is, Vettori has now won 35 out of 51. That's 69%.

Is that some kind of record?

 

[Richard]

Dunno, I really CBA looking at each captain's record in his first 51 Test\ODI\T2I matches TBH.

 

[Richard]

Mills needs to get his line & length as early as possible. Not the decent way to start off...

I'm seriously struggling to believe I've just seen that - no-ball 1st ball of the series, which would otherwise have been wicket 1st ball of the series. Wonder if I'll ever see that again.

Southee to open-up at the other end.

 

[Athlai]

Where can you find these records?

 

[Jamee999]

In 2006-2007 (the 2 seasons), Derbyshire won something like 19 in a row, which is 1/500,000 or something.

 

[Richard]

Where can you find these records?

Dunno TBH, I didn't, my ATS mate Dave did. It's all reasearchable on StatsGuru.

No swing for Southee so far which is a bit worrying, but he might've had Wright lbw there. Not easy to tell that it hit pad before bat for the Umpire though.

Southee has hit 87mph though, which is a good few mph quicker than I've ever seen him bowl before.

So Mills concedes 12, Southee gets a maiden. Interesting start.

 

[Athlai]

Maiden over on debut for the opening over, gun effort Southee.

 

[Raghav]

excellent start by Tim Southee. Congrats Southee

 

[Manee]

ITSTL that someone with the poor List A record of Southee (and conversely, the very impressive U19 record) gets an ODI cap...

 

[Richard]

12 off the first over, 1 off the second. Very interesting start from Mills.

 

[Athlai]

12,0,1 from the first three overs, don't think I've seen that before.

 

[Richard]

ANOTHER no-ball! Jeys, this is poor. This time it's a swish and a miss though.

 

[Raghav]

12 off the first over, 1 off the second. Very interesting start from Mills.

expected from him to comeback.

Richard, I wasn't really expecting 12 runs in first over

 

[Athlai]

ITSTL that someone with the poor List A record of Southee (and conversely, the very impressive U19 record) gets an ODI cap...

Well 5 List A matches is a bit hard to judge him by, but the real point to think about is just how inexperienced he is at the first class level and how the selectors have put faith in him to leapfrog right into internationals.