***Official*** New Zealand in the West Indies 2014

[Dan]

Jerome Taylor massive value there IMO

 

[Prince EWS]

Jerome Taylor massive value there IMO

Yeah agreed.

Bet365 are offering 6.50 for Gabriel and will refund if he doesn't play at all; that's good value too IMO.

 

[Teja.]

Kippax's pic doesn't work for me. Someone to fill me in on the value.

 

[Kippax]

Bet365: $4.50 for Taylor, 1st inns wicket-taker.

 

[Kippax]

 

[Kippax]

NZ bat, Sodhi plays, no Wagner.

 

[Kippax]

C Gayle, K Brathwaite, K Edwards, Darren Bravo, S Chanderpaul, J Blackwood, D Ramdin*+, K Roach, J Taylor, S Benn, S Gabriel.

 

[Prince EWS]

So both teams have chosen a clearly inferior fourth bowler due to the conditions. Sounds like a pretty standard occurence until you realise the West Indies selected a fast bowler over a superior spinner and New Zealand selected a spinner over a superior quick.

Someone's read this pitch wrong.

 

[Kippax]

Shillingford injured I think, Cribbage. No second spinner to play.

 

[Prince EWS]

Shillingford injured I think, Cribbage. No second spinner to play.

Fair enough.

I hope you get to see something more closely resembling the Gabriel I saw bowl against Zimbabwe in this game. New Zealanders must be dumbfounded as to how Gabriel gets a game after seeing him in the summer, but he was a totally different bowler when I first saw him. It'd be great to see that bowler again.

 

[Kippax]

Not with the amount of money I put on Taylor, it wouldn't.

 

[Flem274*]

holy **** we have 5 runs on the board without losing a wicket yet.

bless you hamish. you've already outdone fults.

 

[Mike5181]

Someone complete Blackwood's haircut, please.

 

[Kippax]

What Hendrix said about two left-handed openers is panning out here.

"York Latham!" - Gavon Brown.

 

[Prince EWS]

Australia has joined Macedonia in showing the first day of this Test live.

 

[Flem274*]

what did hendrix say?

 

[Kippax]

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as much as I don't rate Rutherford, I think two left handers at the top of the order will be good for NZ. As well as Taylor bowled, he struggled against the left handers. His stock ball (the out swinger) is similar to Southee's, which is an excellent delivery against right handers but he doesn't quite have the control that Southee showed to probe away on a line to left handers.

 

[Dan]

Gabriel over Holder? Ugh.

Sodhi over Wagner? Slightly less ugh solely because they won the last Test.

 

[Dan]

Also Son of Ken already doing more in partnership with Son of Rod than 2 Meter Peter would have provided. Good stuff.

 

[hendrix]

Rutherford still has that weak area on his hip, I see.

Loving how easily Latham rotates the strike.