*Official* New Zealand in Australia 2019/20

[Starfighter]

Jeez I wish Paine would run himself out.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Head needs to be sent back to club cricket.

 

[Starfighter]

Raval has a better release and spin direction for Aus conditions than Yasir Shah.

 

[ataraxia]

Raval has a better release and spin direction for Aus conditions than Yasir Shah.

...but Yasir's a better batsman.

 

[NZTailender]

Nice rip from Jerry there

 

[Burgey]

Head needs to be sent back to club cricket.

TJB tasting so hard

 

[Kippax]

Hutt Hawks match reports did mention Raval was making some strides in adding a string to his bow. And no, he didn't really score runs there either. Devan Vishvaka did, but NZC will never let you enjoy the fruits of that one.

 

[_Ed_]

Today already hasn't gone as well as I was hoping, but fingers crossed for a flurry of wickets now.

 

[Starfighter]

For those watching Fox, has Warne talked about declaring yet?

 

[Moss]

Raval playing the Santner role here as containing spinner. Interesting to say the least.

 

[honestbharani]

Can NZ bat 250 overs, two innings combined? That will decide this test.

 

[Starfighter]

That said, it would be nice if they weren't just patting full tosses back to the bowlers.

 

[Flem274*]

hmmm, even if we bowl them out we're going to be doing a lot of batting under lights

great

 

[andruid]

Dear Whoever's in charge,

Do not let this series become an anti-climactic blowout

Love
random neutral cricket fan

 

[Burgey]

Good grind here. If these two last til tea they’ll probably have a slap around for an hour or so after the second break then have a dip with the ball under lights. Be happy with anything over 400 tbh. Batting wasn’t that easy yesterday.

 

[honestbharani]

Isn't tea the first break here? Or they are doing it like the India pink ball match with lunch as the first break at 3 or something?

 

[straw man]

Strange period of play - NZ's two mean seamers are understandably gassed and it's down to part time spin, but Australia on the go-slow, presumably content to bat time so they get the new ball in the evening.

 

[Starfighter]

Isn't tea the first break here? Or they are doing it like the India pink ball match with lunch as the first break at 3 or something?

Latter. Match started 1:00 local time.

 

[Starfighter]

Strange period of play - NZ's two mean seamers are understandably gassed and it's down to part time spin, but Australia on the go-slow, presumably content to bat time so they get the new ball in the evening.

No, we're on the go-slow because these two simply aren't capable of scoring faster.

 

[stephen]

A little from column A and a little from column B.