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

[Athlai]

Guptill
Latham
Williamson
Taylor
McCullum
Watling (+)
Santner
Bracewell
Wagner
Southee
Boult

Plz.

 

[Kippax]

Johnston gets Chandimal.

 

[Athlai]

Catches in front of the wicket for Wagner.

Haha such a typical jammy wicket for Wagner. Love him.

 

[Bahnz]

Haha such a typical jammy wicket for Wagner. Love him.

His first wicket was even more so: a decent length ball on off-stump that Mendis for some reason lifted straight to midwicket.

 

[Kippax]

 

[Kippax]

Getting the action onto the scorecard within about an hour of it happening, with this new camera.

 

[Kippax]

Defeating Karunaratne with generous flight, some teenage keeper denying Cribb the fivefer.

 

[Bahnz]

Popeye and the Sultan of Saxton having a good time from the looks of things. Only serves to heap more pressure on Gup to make some runs next week.

Lakmal with 4 nb's in 3 overs. :/

 

[Hurricane]

107/18 overs

 

[Kippax]

Not sure if Smith is still using Taylor's bat, like he did for the 244. Putting these underdone Lankans away sweetly though. Just one of his dodgy chamfered ones down through the slips.

 

[Hurricane]

Herath on and the run rate slows. haha. This on the radio Kip?

 

[Kippax]

Nup.

 

[Dan]

inb4 NZC reads this and closes the loophole

 

[NZTailender]

Not sure if Smith is still using Taylor's bat, like he did for the 244. Putting these underdone Lankans away sweetly though. Just one of his dodgy chamfered ones down through the slips.

For some reason I like the look of him a lot more here than in the other video

 

[Kippax]

Haha yeah I'll genuinely delete that post in a minute. They may've never known if I didn't stupidly put that 'door to the vault' link in my old sig.

Cribb is going to recruit the best I.T. brain on CW to get me back in where I belong though, I can feel it.

 

[NZTailender]

Want him to play this summer so much

 

[Kippax]

For some reason I like the look of him a lot more here than in the other video

Yeah me too. Even Rutherford has runs against international attacks at Queenstown though. Chameera and Pradeep aren't in the form and aren't on the pitch to get it up where Smith looks rushed, like Wagner did in the other vid.

 

[Hurricane]

What's Popli's go? Is he born in NZ? If not when did he move here, he has an accomplished style against spin that is most Un-new zealand like.

 

[Kippax]

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Popli was born in New Delhi, India but grew up in Tauranga. He attended Tauranga Boys' College at the same time as Black Cap Kane Williamson.

He says there was a great work ethic and culture within the cricket group led by Williamson.

"We were both in the same age group teams for Bay of Plenty and stuff. That was pretty special. The rest of us just fed off him trying to get better," Popli said.

 

[Athlai]

I mean this is pretty embarrassing for Sri Lanka right? This is a pretty mediocre president's XI, the attack is FC standard I guess?