***Official*** New Zealand in Australia 2011

[Furball]

Pitch as of yesterday.

 

[Spark]

Healy talking complete rubbish

/redundant

It deadset looks like they're playing on the wrong pitch hahaha

 

[Uppercut]

LOL at the pitch. More of this.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Healy and Slater think Aussie should be bowling short, itstl.

 

[Ruckus]

Man that looks lush! How Tassie should be.

 

[Prince EWS]

Pitches for the Shield matches there are often even greener.

I definitely do prefer this to the pitches they usually serve up for the Tests here though, which are just generally slow and dire.

 

[hazsa19]

I've fallen in love. THAT is one beautiful cricket ground.

 

[Noble One]

This pitch places the records of Butterworth, Maher and Faulkner into perspective.

 

[Spikey]

Healy and Slater think Aussie should be bowling short, itstl.

yep. sounds like ian healy

 

[Nate]

News just in - Vettori out with an arrow to the knee.

 

[Bahnz]

Fantastic early example there of how hard McCullum has worked on leaving the ball.

 

[ajdude]

Peter George would've had a hat trick by now

 

[Spark]

Might need to move up. Not a quick deck.

 

[Furball]

I've fallen in love. THAT is one beautiful cricket ground.

Isn't it? Could quite easily be in another country when you consider the arenas at the Gabba, MCG and SCG, sorrounded by high-rise modernity.

 

[Prince EWS]

This pitch places the records of Butterworth, Maher and Faulkner into perspective.

The pitches they actually play on place those records under even further scrutiny given they're even greener a lot of the time. I'm pretty sure Butterworth actually averages less away from Hobart than he does in it though.

On the flip side, it puts some of Hughes's best Shield innings into perspective too.

 

[Spikey]

Peter George would've had a hat trick by now

hat trick of what

 

[Zinzan]

Probably the only positive for NZ here is it looks like the typical NZ pitches of the early 2000s and doens't look like there's much bounce

 

[Nate]

Might need to move up. Not a quick deck.

Skidmark00 to claim we should've opened with Lyon. Or Clarke.

 

[ajdude]

hat trick of what

consecutive deliveries, probably twice

 

[Prince EWS]

Skidmark00 to claim we should've opened with Lyon. Or Clarke.

Ponting's offies IMO.