I wonder, can these two reprise their stand at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore in 2005\06? If so, hopefully the insane collapse that followed it that time might be averted here.
Can see NZ getting in more than the stipulated overs today, plenty more. Imagine Vettori and Patel will bowl for most of the rest of this session - if it lasts that long.
Batsmen pretty much blocking everything, commentators saying they need to play shots to disperse the field. Crap - there's no way NZ need to worry about putting the field out now. Don't block balls you'd be safer trying to hit - but anything off the line of the stumps, leave it, and anything other than Full-Toss\Half-Volley, don't do anything other than dead-bat it. Play forward as much as you can; play with the bat, it's still not turning overtly; don't run anything which isn't strollable, FFS a run-out now would be unforgiveable.
If these two make it to Drinks this session, that's when I'll start believing a Great Escape might just be do-able. But it'll be Tea (without further loss) before I'll start hoping it's going to happen.
EDIT: nope, Collingwood gone. Ambrose has one hell of a task now.