***Official*** Pakistan in New Zealand 2017/18

[Fuller Pilch]

Okay Latham - time for that control against spinners

Perhaps not

 

[Athlai]

Uh oh spaghettios

 

[Burgey]

Pakistan proving to be their normal consistent selves then.

 

[Blain]

God these commentators are hard to take. Add in Hockley and Rutherford and it's just shocking.

Will be good to see how the middle/lower order goes, Nicholl's, CDG and Santner need to show some spine.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Hopefully Shoaib Malik is feeling a lot better and is okay. His bowling would be very useful on this pitch

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Can Hafeez bowl or is he banned?

 

[Prince EWS]

Can Hafeez bowl or is he banned?

Banned.

 

[Daemon]

Williamson should be retested as well

 

[Prince EWS]

Williamson should be retested as well

Haha yeah. He was definitely fine when he first came back but he's got chuckier and chuckier as time has gone on from that point, at least to the eye.

 

[_Ed_]

Glorious from CdG. So good to have him back.

 

[Prince EWS]

Colin WAG

 

[thierry henry]

If anyone knows about “not quite” chucking, its Ol’ Man River.

That's the joke. And you stole my like you bastard.

 

[thierry henry]

I want CDG to fail but I don't. But also, I do.

 

[BeeGee]

Good to see CDG back. He adds some much needed bite to our lower order.

 

[thierry henry]

If Munro and CDG were opposition players they would terrify me. That's gotta be a good thing.

 

[jcas0167]

Glorious from de Grandhomme coming in under pressure.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

50 off 25. It is good to have you back CDG

 

[Moss]

Lord Colin WAG.

Much like Hardik Pandya, just have to disregard how terrible he may look at times; worth having around for sheer impact when he comes off. Contributed far more in the last one year than Anderson and Neesham have in the last few.

 

[thierry henry]

262/8.
NZ got 262/7 in that 1992 semi at Eden Park

CDG doing a pretty perfect Inzamam impersonation here. Casual looking big hitting, two-part surname and all.

 

[Moss]

Nicholls continues to be quite the survivor. From Cricinfo commentary it sounds like he's been anything but fluent in this innings and was completely bottled up in the middle overs. Would have been interesting to see if he'd have managed to accelerate and take the chase home in the absence of CdG, but well done to the guy.