**Official** New Zealand in Australia 2015

[Flem274*]

starc yorkers to doug the obvious plan

and yes bahnz the merciless march of kane has begun. ross might fend him off for a bit (especially at home) but it's inevitable.

 

[Hurricane]

Seriously wtf is up with these tailenders trying to slog it while KW is playing a masterclass at the other end?

Express yourself etc. Brendon's advice etc.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Get to lunch. Get to the new ball. See what happens. We might get some lucky boundaries - follow on is still a long way away. Any news on Southee?

 

[Furball]

Why does no-one mention Angelo Mathews when talking about good young bats?

Particularly when the commentators are talking about 30 year old, played international cricket for 11 years AB de Villiers as a young batsman.

 

[Furball]

Get to lunch. Get to the new ball. See what happens. We might get some lucky boundaries - follow on is still a long way away. Any news on Southee?

Doubt Australia will enforce it anyway.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sounds like a stunning hundred. Wish I'd been able to see more of it.

 

[Pothas]

Why does no-one mention Angelo Mathews when talking about good young bats?

Particularly when the commentators are talking about 30 year old, played international cricket for 11 years AB de Villiers as a young batsman.

Always kind of felt like he is a bit stuck between generations but yeah if they are talking about de Villiers then they need to be talking about Amla and Cook as well.

 

[NUFAN]

Voges will get Bracewell here I expect.

 

[Bahnz]

Why does no-one mention Angelo Mathews when talking about good young bats?

Particularly when the commentators are talking about 30 year old, played international cricket for 11 years AB de Villiers as a young batsman.

Probably because he's played in Sangakkara's shadow through his entire career. Hopefully that'll change going forward.

 

[SteveNZ]

Why does no-one mention Angelo Mathews when talking about good young bats?

Particularly when the commentators are talking about 30 year old, played international cricket for 11 years AB de Villiers as a young batsman.

Because in CH9 cricket parlance, the 'tree falls in the woods' conundrum is expressed as 'if performances are made outside of Australia, do they make a noise?'

To be fair, Mathews does 'only' have 7 Test hundreds, one more than Vettori and has scored the bulk of his runs at 5-6.

 

[_Ed_]

Mark Taylor describing Voges as "left-arm floaters" is a commentary highlight.

 

[Furball]

Because in CH9 cricket parlance, the 'tree falls in the woods' conundrum is expressed as 'if performances are made outside of Australia, do they make a noise?'

To be fair, Mathews does 'only' have 7 Test hundreds, one more than Vettori and has scored the bulk of his runs at 5-6.

It's not just a channel 9 thing, everyone talks about the Fab 4 of Root-Smith-Kohli-Williamson.

 

[_Ed_]

No handshakes for Williamson as he walks off for lunch?

 

[Bahnz]

Would say that was a decent session if it weren't for the fact that any feeble hopes we may have had of saving the game departed with Watling.

 

[Flem274*]

Because in CH9 cricket parlance, the 'tree falls in the woods' conundrum is expressed as 'if performances are made outside of Australia, do they make a noise?'

To be fair, Mathews does 'only' have 7 Test hundreds, one more than Vettori and has scored the bulk of his runs at 5-6.

angelo is the best batsman against swing in the world though

 

[Hurricane]

I want Ian Smith to become horribly one eyed, just to see how the rest of the CH 9 team react.

 

[Hurricane]

Would say that was a decent session if it weren't for the fact that any feeble hopes we may have had of saving the game departed with Watling.

We have forced a 4th day if nothing else and we are battling which is all I wanted out of today.

 

[Pratters]

I want Ian Smith to talk about pigs. He did it once fifteen years back and was awesome to watch.

 

[NUFAN]

Would say that was a decent session if it weren't for the fact that any feeble hopes we may have had of saving the game departed with Watling.

Yeah the Voges drop means the session belonged to NZ, definitely.

 

[SteveNZ]

It's not just a channel 9 thing, everyone talks about the Fab 4 of Root-Smith-Kohli-Williamson.

That is completely true. Just saying you'll get no chance of hearing about him from those bozos.

As I said, playing devil's advocate you'd think Mathews would have to bat in the top four consistently to join that group. I've not seen a lot of him outside ODI cricket so I couldn't say how good he is.

Not the worst session, I guess. Only issue being that we're 8 out all out, especially with the new ball around the corner.