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

[wallacenz]

Very encouraging signs from Pattinson today, still getting wickets on a pitch that has flattened out.

i wouldnt be confident its flattened out. ausy are bowling with a 60+ over old ball. the new ball may still move around. 5 for 40 and the aussies will struggle to get 200

 

[Athlai]

Because it's true. Nothing like the 1st day.

I was saying it to mock you tbh. I don't think it's flat at all.

 

[Tricia McMillan]

Bracewell at 8...

I know how to count.

I swear.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

yeah probably related to having his wrist smashed in

I reckon he's fine against the short ball when the bounce isn't so variable, same as most batsmen.

 

[Ruckus]

Very encouraging signs from Pattinson today, still getting wickets on a pitch that has flattened out.

The middle overs are the part of his game he is gonna need to work on the most I reckon. He is already a pretty damn good new ball bowler, just needs to work his consistency up when he bowls long spells when the wicket is flat.

 

[BoyBrumby]

yeah probably related to having his wrist smashed in

Was a short one that clanged him on the wrist in the first place tho. Didn't handle that well either.

 

[TumTum]

I was saying it to mock you tbh. I don't think it's flat at all.

Agree not flat at all, but compared to before it has definitely flattened out.

 

[Zinzan]

Because it's true. Nothing like the 1st day.

Day 2 was almost exactly the same as day 1 & today hasn't looked much different either. Things have only looked easier when ball gets older, that's all.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Agree not flat at all, but compared to before it has definitely flattened out.

Not very significantly IMO, it's just the ball getting older.

EDIT: beaten to it.

 

[Flem274*]

Hughes will score a few runs today. I can feel it.

 

[TumTum]

Day 2 was almost exactly the same as day 1 & today hasn't looked much different either. Things have only looked easier when ball gets older, that's all.

The new ball didn't jag around in the 2nd innings like it did in the 1st.

 

[Flem274*]

Getting really nervous now tbh.

 

[Athlai]

Hughes will score a few runs today. I can feel it.

Hughes 3 c Guptill b Martin ?

 

[wellAlbidarned]

FFS there's an easy three there.

 

[Athlai]

The new ball didn't jag around in the 2nd innings like it did in the 1st.

Australia bowled woefully, this morning they've proven that is was just the areas they bowled yesterday that let them down.

 

[Bahnz]

Taylor fought hard but always looked horrible. So many half volleys bunted straight to fielders. All we can hope for now is a couple of annoying 25 run partnerships and another aussie capitulation. But I think this one might be gone already.

 

[Ruckus]

Australia bowled woefully, this morning they've proven that is was just the areas they bowled yesterday that let them down.

Pitch would be more moist this morning though, and the conditions have looked slightly more overcast than they did yesterday when the sun was coming out. Has also been better bowling though, undoubtedly.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Australia bowled woefully, this morning they've proven that is was just the areas they bowled yesterday that let them down.

The truth is not welcome here!

 

[Furball]

It seems the Kiwi posters have all merged into one amorphous blob.

I'd like to point out that as a member of Crabs RUFC, you're obliged to change your avatar as well.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

That's it Bracewell.