*Official* Pakistan in New Zealand

[wellAlbidarned]

Just drop the bat on it and get santner on strike you ****s

 

[King Kane]

Rauf cleaning up again in the death overs.

We need to get Santner back on strike.

 

[Skyliner]

“Santner didn’t quite get all of it….Southee I should say.”

 

[trundler]

Earthquake in Seddon Park?

 

[thierry henry]

Can any **** hit a slower ball ffs

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Sears always looks like he's just popped an adderall

probably has tbf

 

[Skyliner]

The wheels fell off after KW retired hurt.

 

[trundler]

Rauf should kept away from the powerplay at all times. Really stupid to bowl him then but can't fault them for experimenting I suppose. Those were some free runs.

 

[Immenso]

At what point do you get shifty at Finn Allen? If he reigned it in 10% (after getting through power play, and then losing Kane) would we be looking 230/4 rather than 190?

I don't profess to bea t20 batting tactics expert. It's just elevator music to me. But I assume someone has data on that sort of stuff.

Is it normal in t20 to reign it back a bit if u get thru powerplay? Like a modern N Astle? Or does everyone keep thrashing relentlessly regardless? (And data/analysis backs that as a correct approach?).

Just seems impossible, to me, for 2 set batsmen to NOT get 2 boundaries an over at Sneddon Park without much risk. Surely you 'earn the right' to then just astle it for 10 overs.

 

[SteveNZ]

Kane padded up to return to bat in the 20th over after retiring with a tight hammy might be the stupidest thing I've seen in the Stead era. And it's a competitive field

 

[thierry henry]

Macca reckons the crowd is ‘in awaitance’.

 

[King Kane]

Normally you would be pretty happy with a score of 194 but we should have made at least 200 from the position we were in.

Horrible collapse at the end which would have been even worse if it wasn't for that great cameo knock from Santner.

 

[Athlai]

Macca reckons the crowd is ‘in awaitance’.

This is a macca-ism that i like

 

[wellAlbidarned]

At what point do you get shifty at Finn Allen? If he reigned it in 10% (after getting through power play, and then losing Kane) would we be looking 230/4 rather than 190?

I don't profess to bea t20 batting tactics expert. It's just elevator music to me. But I assume someone has data on that sort of stuff.

Is it normal in t20 to reign it back a bit if u get thru powerplay? Like a modern N Astle? Or does everyone keep thrashing relentlessly regardless? (And data/analysis backs that as a correct approach?).

Just seems impossible, to me, for 2 set batsmen to NOT get 2 boundaries an over at Sneddon Park without much risk. Surely you 'earn the right' to then just astle it for 10 overs.

Hot take but I think his job is to get 30 or 40 off 20 and then hit one straight up. He's just not that good at playing pace off with the field out, and he doesn't need to be - that's the job of Phillips, Mitchell, and Chapman. It's kinda stupid for him to pace his innings assuming no-one else will do their job.

 

[Immenso]

I remember when light towers needed half an hour to warm up ....

Now , with LEDS, they're enducing epileptic fits as part of the half time light show

 

[Moss]

Normally you would be pretty happy with a score of 194 but we should have made at least 200 from the position we were in.

Horrible collapse at the end which would have been even worse if it wasn't for that great cameo knock from Santner.

That long tail in T20s will hurt NZ on occasion, also means the middle order can’t play that freely. Need Bracewell/Smith in there.

 

[trundler]

I'm all Rizzed up

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Rizwan's average is a typo right

 

[Athlai]

Southee me harder baby

 

[trundler]

Babar-Rizwan back in business babeh