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

[Immenso]

Southee showing that ***** Santner the meaning of he word 'intent'. He intends to not bat for 90 balls.

 

[Hurricane]

Past 210!

 

[NUFAN]

I feel as though Bracewell finally understands how to produce a Test match knock. In his first 20 Tests he just lacked the discipline and number 8 looked about 2 spots two high. Serviceable there now.

 

[Hurricane]

Well the hell are those bogans on the hill up to?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Handy runs

 

[Athlai]

Engine room

 

[jonbrooks]

Seriously, what is wrong with the Black Caps? When you're under the pump like this how can you just throw your wicket away like Watling, Southee and Wagner did?! Southee in particular is a walking wicket. Might as well just name him Chris Martin and be done with it.

 

[Jono]

you can't be happy with Wagner hooking sixes and fours and then get upset when he gets caught smashing a ball to cover or mid off or whatever. He's a lower order bat / tailender, can't really blame him,

Watling just tried to hit a **** ball for 4 and didn't connect properly. That happens.

 

[straw man]

Was hopeful we could get the deficit down to 30 or so before Wagner's wicket. Still, he and Bracewell did a decent job together. Need some successful slogging in the morning now.

Sri Lanka's day though. It was NZ's, then we handed them a sniff and then they bowled well after that to take advantage.

 

[Athlai]

Yeah we are still in this thanks to The engine room.

 

[CM Punk]

Best case scenario, how many runs can our bowlers knock the SL's over for?... Considering the form our bowlers are in and how well the SL's batted on day one, I think we may be looking at defeat...

 

[Athlai]

Best case scenario, how many runs can our bowlers knock the SL's over for?... Considering the form our bowlers are in and how well the SL's batted on day one, I think we may be looking at defeat...

Uh besides Boult no one is in bad form. Don't let Bracewells figures fall you, he's bowling well.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Best case scenario is we bowl them out for 0.

 

[Bahnz]

Best case scenario? Probably about 200.

Yeah, NZ have ****ed this up bad and it's hard to see them getting out of it. Even if we can scrap to 250 tomorrow, Srl have all the momentum on a pitch that still looks to be playing pretty well.

 

[CM Punk]

Uh besides Boult no one is in bad form. Don't let Bracewells figures fall you, he's bowling well.

No one is in great form either.

Being conservative, if SL score 300 and have a 40-50 run lead meaning we'll be chasing around 350.

It may get easier to bat, but there is still the pressure of chasing in the 4th innings to consider so anything over 300 will be difficult.

 

[Bahnz]

On the plus side this pitch isn't going to break up, so if NZ can keep our eventual target below 300, and the batsmen don't repeat their stupid mistakes from the first innings then we'll have a chance.

 

[Jezroy]

Pretty worried even if we are only chasing 250-270 in the final innings that we'll bottle it against Herath.

 

[CM Punk]

Even if the pitch is still to good to bat on, I don't trust our batsmen to chase anything over 270.

 

[Jono]

could easily see SL being cleaned up for 160-180 in their innings, so NZ could be chasing 220-240 or even less. I think they deserve to still be favs, but bookies probably have them a bit shorter than they should be. I'd have NZ 1.90 rather than 1.68.

Not sure why NZ fans are so pessimistic just yet. SL have shown an incredible ability to collapse

 

[Jezroy]

Not sure why NZ fans are so pessimistic just yet. SL have shown an incredible ability to collapse

We have a batting line up quite capable of their own wonderous collapse.