*Official* New Zealand in Sri Lanka

[Craig]

I'm so glad we got Sangakkara out early. Still hope we can get Dilshan and Jayawardene out before they do much damage. Still Kulasekara will probably come out and smash his maiden FC and Test 100. Hey if Jerome Taylor can...

 

[Brett Dale]

Glad Vettori, is getting the runrate down a bit, I think at 86/2 Sri Lanka would probably be happier, given the conditions.

 

[straw man]

Picking Jayawardene to score a hundred TBH - he always seems to do well against us.

Interesting contrast between Vettori and Patel's econ rates so far.

 

[Flem274*]

Dilshan ominous.

 

[Brett Dale]

111/2 at Lunch, this match and series could get away from the blackcaps in the second session.

Patel beens a shocker, but Vettori is trying to keep it tight.

 

[Nishan]

Very Impressed with Dilshan again, certainly making the most of his form. Hopefully Sri Lanka can get a good 4 years of this out of him.

Chris Martin against Left handers contiues to be good, How bad are those bowls just short enough for Dilshan to cut for a single, i will be annoyed if i was vettori about those.

 

[Flem274*]

111/2 at Lunch, this match and series could get away from the blackcaps in the second session.

Patel beens a shocker, but Vettori is trying to keep it tight.

You don't lose series by having a team at 111/2 at lunch.

Anything could happen over five days. I agree we are very likely to lose the series, but stop looking for indicators we've lost already.

 

[DIRK-NANNES]

Dilshan seems to be establishing himself as an O'Brien specialist

EDIT: WOOOO, jinx worked

 

[Uppercut]

Sounds thrilling from Dilshan. That's how to open the batting on a green seamer under overcast skies.

Really sucks that we can't watch this here.

 

[Nate]

Or here.

 

[Prince EWS]

Or here.

Getting it fine ITBT.

 

[Jakester1288]

Getting it fine ITBT.

Are you using a stream?

 

[Prince EWS]

Are you using a stream?

Of course not; that would be illegal.

 

[Jakester1288]

Of course not; that would be illegal.

Meh.

 

[Brett Dale]

Sri lanka looking set for a huge score.

 

[Meridio]

This is looking ominous. Not sure what we can do to pick up a wicket, by the sound of things we're not really threatening at all.

 

[Brett Dale]

It's going to be a long couple of days.

 

[Athlai]

****ing furious that Vettori didn't dive for that skier off Jeets.

 

[Athlai]

Haha, I love watching Jeets bowl, but I struggle to see how even his staunchest supporters can justify this one. The line that's usually tossed about regarding his First Class bowling average is "he plays on seamers' wickets domestically"... which only backs up the fact that he shouldn't be playing here, if he averages 41 on seamers' wickets against prank-batsmen.

Take it your watching this.

Think the turn alone basically cements his position in the team.

Still think it should have been an attack of Martin-(Tuffey/O'Brien)-Franklin-Vettori-Patel

 

[Blakey]

You don't lose series by having a team at 111/2 at lunch.

Anything could happen over five days. I agree we are very likely to lose the series, but stop looking for indicators we've lost already.

Welcome to the world of Brett. According to him the only way this team could beat Sri Lanka would be to have Vettori bowling from one end with Garth Brooks bowling at the other.