***Official**** Sri Lanka in New Zealand 2014/2015

[hendrix]

Keep going with Craig and Wags after lunch. Only 15 overs till the new ball.

 

[Maximas]

Gotta try and take the game to the kiwis a little bit I feel, doesn't look like either of these two will survive the new ball watching them bat that session

 

[BeeGee]

Gotta try and take the game to the kiwis a little bit I feel, doesn't look like either of these two will survive the new ball watching them bat that session

Yeah I agree. It was important to prevent a collapse after the two wickets, but just trying to survive isn't going to work. Only scoring 50 runs in a session gives NZ all the time in the world to get these last 8 wickets. They need to attack and force McCullum to change his plans.

 

[Athlai]

Smithy the reason for it is Boult will get the new ball in 10 or so overs. So Baz is giving him 45 minutes to catch his breath and come in fresh.

 

[Flem274*]

Smithy the reason for it is Boult will get the new ball in 10 or so overs. So Baz is giving him 45 minutes to catch his breath and come in fresh.

Hold on I'll just link him to CW

 

[Athlai]

Ball getting changed, wicket inc.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Even an established first class cricketer is gonna be ****ting their pants being on the field in front of 10000 people for the first time in their life. The substitute fielder should be a player who's played in front of a crowd before and isn't going to have first time jitters. It's arrogant to use the position to "give him some experience" when there's a very real chance of that player influencing the game.

It is absolutely no different to what England and Australia do at home. As per Hurricane's example below, Gary Pratt was hardly experienced in fielding in front of a full house at Trent Bridge when he ran out Ponting.

Also other teams usually pick some gun fieldsmen - like the guy who ran out ponting in the ashes many years ago.

Gary Pratt. Someone who was never going to be troubling the international scorers in any other way. Do you know that McConchie isn't a good fielder? I've no idea tbh - maybe he has a pretty good reputation at Canterbury.

 

[viriya]

Thiri going at a blistering 18 SR..

 

[Flem274*]

So what Doully is saying is the filth at ND made Kane into a biffer?

 

[Flem274*]

Karu!

 

[BeeGee]

Good knock.

 

[Maximas]

Great knock, really needed to get the monkey off his back and score a hundred, if these two get through the new ball I'll be officially starting to hope, it just sucks that we have no batting below Matthews, Dickwella was a disgusting selection

 

[viriya]

Totally unexpected but good to see.. Nice one from Dimuth. This will probably secure the opening spot for him for the next 2 years.

 

[straw man]

Excellent innings by Karunaratne

 

[wellAlbidarned]

A touch short from Boult atm, fantastic innings by Karun.

 

[Flem274*]

terrible review. he middled that.

 

[Maximas]

Was my first instinct I must admit, was surprised the appeal was so strong

 

[Flem274*]

Southee getting noticeably more zip than in his first over though.

 

[Flem274*]

Thirimanne is a borderline spud squad member but I can't fault his determination to stay in.

Mathews next in though so I'd like him to piss off so I can watch Angelo.

 

[Maximas]

He's a good batsman but I feel his strong scoring areas tend to be somewhat risky (backward point, third man, covers) so he shelves them when he's looking to survive and so he finds himself unable to score, reminds me of Azhar Ali a bit