*Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

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Should be batting at 7

 

[thierry henry]

Weak gutted dog people

 

[Kraken]

what a knock. 2nd 50 have come really quickly too

 

[Spark]

Gee that's a terrific hundred. Good luck to him. Seemed down and likely out of the side for quite a while at the start of the summer.

Really think it was mostly just down to a lack of game time tbh. He was carted around all over the place without ever getting a hit

 

[Burgey]

50 to 100 in 44 balls they just said.

I think that's a goodish score on this pitch after being sent in. May flatten out tomorrow though

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Bloody brilliant from Green

So glad the selectors didn't completely screw his career by making him open

 

[morgieb]

Pretty even day. Basin might flatten out but the wicket wasn’t easy at all so Australia getting to 280 isn’t the worst thing in the world.

hopefully this is Green’s coming of age moment, it was a superb innings with Australia in a fair bit of strife.

 

[straw man]

Great hundred in testing conditions

 

[Flem274*]

natural talent and form ≠ skill

It matters when you no longer have the requisite talent to use that skill.

125kph swinging from the hand and not particularly accurate is of no use.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I think that's a goodish score on this pitch after being sent in. May flatten out tomorrow though

Like the first couple 2023 Ashes Tests, will be even better to win having the worse of conditions

 

[NZTailender]

NZ 5 down by stumps imo

...on day 2

 

[Kraken]

if the pitch is similar to this tomorrow, patty blue eyes and the hoff will carve up on this

 

[Silver Silva]

Tremendous knock from Green, when everyone else failed he stood up for the Baggy Green.

 

[NZTailender]

Incredible knock given the conditions and the innings. Could end up being the real difference by the end of the test.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Well done Green. 55/45 Oz

 

[Nintendo]

Don't nz pitches tend to do a bit on day 1 then flatten the **** out as the game goes on, particularly at the basin? I don't think 300 is going to be enough in the first dig given the strength of nz's batting.

 

[King Kane]

It was looking like our day but that ton from Green has evened it up, hopefully we can still get a first innings lead but I'm not confident without Conway.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Don't nz pitches tend to do a bit on day 1 then flatten the **** out as the game goes on, particularly at the basin? I don't think 300 is going to be enough in the first dig given the strength of nz's batting.

Last year England Bazballed it after early wickets (Root and Brook) to 430 odd then rolled us for 200. They then enforced the follow on and the rest is history.

 

[Spark]

Don't nz pitches tend to do a bit on day 1 then flatten the **** out as the game goes on, particularly at the basin? I don't think 300 is going to be enough in the first dig given the strength of nz's batting.

Yes but this didn't seem to behave like a standard NZ seamy road from my recollection; those just nip around and swing whereas this felt more like Cape Town with huge seam movement and uneven bounce at random intervals throughout the day

 

[Jezroy]

Interested to know whether kuggs* is bowling within himself or if this is just his normal pace now. Looking pretty pedestrian, though can’t argue with the wickets.

*abbreviation used not out of affection but to avoid the full spelling on my phone

Same reason I say Scotty K. It’s not cis I want to be mates with him.