*Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh 2023/24

[King Kane]

Sodhi lucky there, that looked out too.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

I remember Venkat as an umpire but his test playing career was before my time.

Illingworth played test cricket in the early 90s for England but I don't remember him, a lot of players played test cricket for England back then,

David Lloyd was pretty good, unlucky not to play more international cricket

 

[Moss]

I remember Venkat as an umpire but his test playing career was before my time.

Definitely 4th best among the spin quartet, but managed 150 test wickets.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Were Bangladesh saying they got the point of impact wrong in the DRS there? They did initially, but it doesn’t really make any difference. Too much angle on that, I was surprised the finger went up.

 

[Molehill]

I remember Venkat as an umpire but his test playing career was before my time.

Illingworth played test cricket in the early 90s for England but I don't remember him, a lot of players played test cricket for England back then,

Illingworth has a couple of decent records. He took a wicket with his very first ball in Tests and he's now just the second player to both appear in and umpire a World Cup Final.

 

[Molehill]

Were Bangladesh saying they got the point of impact wrong in the DRS there? They did initially, but it doesn’t really make any difference. Too much angle on that, I was surprised the finger went up.

No, for some reason they put up another ball tracker delivery which showed the ball clipping leg stump on umpire's call. It confused everyone.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

They seem to have scheduled the end of play for this test after the sun is pretty much down.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Dipu is great close in fielder. Doesn’t drop one.

 

[ashley bach]

One thing in the Blackcaps favour tomorrow is that the run rate required is only 2.4.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

No, for some reason they put up another ball tracker delivery which showed the ball clipping leg stump on umpire's call. It confused everyone.

Makes you wonder how much of DRS is down to where a human clicks that the ball is pitching, and all that stuff. There must be a bit of a margin for a call that’s quite close to clipping, like that one was.

 

[Moss]

Thought Mitchell played well TBH, showed his teammates it's possible to both dig in and keep the score moving. Needed at least 2-3 others in the team to play that sort of an innings however. Strong case for him being NZ's most reliable all-format all-conditions player.

Not much left to say about the rest but well bowled Bangladesh, made sure they didn't waste fourth innings conditions on the back of a very good lead. Pretty much had NZ right where they wanted them today.

 

[King Kane]

Well at least we survived until stumps and have lived to fight another day.

If there is a lot of rain tomorrow we might be able to escape with a draw but looking at the forecast for Sylhet I don't think any rain will help us out.

It's win or bust for us, probably bust but if Mitchell can turn into Stokes or Botham with help from the tail we might be able to pull off a miracle win.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Well at least we survived until stumps and have lived to fight another day.

If there is a lot of rain tomorrow we might be able to escape with a draw but looking at the forecast for Sylhet I don't think any rain will help us out.

It's win or bust for us, probably bust but if Mitchell can turn into Stokes or Botham with help from the tail we might be able to pull off a miracle win.

Yeah it's important to have hope otherwise whats the point ?

 

[trundler]

Yeah it's important to have hope otherwise whats the point ?

@Skyliner to comment

 

[Neil Young]

@Skyliner to comment

To answer, he would require a modicum of self awareness.

We wait with baited breath.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

It's win or bust for us, probably bust but if Mitchell can turn into Stokes or Botham with help from the tail we might be able to pull off a miracle win.

Its possible to win from here but the main problem is the pitch. If the trend continues then its going to be easy to survive the first hour but then it will be a lot of struggle. Mitchell can’t just keep on hitting big without giving few chances in this pitch.
Inzamam once pulled off a win single handedly in multan against us from a similar sort of position IIRC but the pitch was a lot lot better.

 

[King Kane]

Its possible to win from here but the main problem is the pitch. If the trend continues then its going to be easy to survive the first hour but then it will be a lot of struggle. Mitchell can’t just keep on hitting big without giving few chances in this pitch.
Inzamam once pulled off a win single handedly in multan against us from a similar sort of position IIRC but the pitch was a lot lot better.

There is still a sliver of hope with Mitchell still there but he would need to score most of the runs himself and score them pretty quickly.

Sodhi and Ajaz can hang around but they won't score many runs and Southee can score some quick runs but he usually doesn't hang around for long.

In all likelihood we will lose tomorrow quite comfortably and Bangladesh deserve to win, they have been the better team so far with both bat and ball.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

There is still a sliver of hope with Mitchell still there but he would need to score most of the runs himself and score them pretty quickly.

Sodhi and Ajaz can hang around but they won't score many runs and Southee can score some quick runs but he usually doesn't hang around for long.

In all likelihood we will lose tomorrow quite comfortably and Bangladesh deserve to win, they have been the better team so far with both bat and ball.

One of phillips/blundell had to make a good partnership with mitchell to bring the target down and then mitchell with the tail had a chance. But you never know. Anything can happen. Do you think draw is a possibility? If NZ bats 85 overs tomorrow, they are going to win regardless

 

[howitzer]

Off topic question.

Apart from Pakistanis having to play in the UAE, is Ajaz the 1st player with 50 tests wickets and zero at home?

He obviously has home wickets but Bumrah had 79 away wickets before his first.

I'd also like to use this post to remind/inform all the Kiwis here that Jack Cowie umpired in Tests

 

[Owzat]

There is still a sliver of hope with Mitchell still there but he would need to score most of the runs himself and score them pretty quickly.

Sodhi and Ajaz can hang around but they won't score many runs and Southee can score some quick runs but he usually doesn't hang around for long.

In all likelihood we will lose tomorrow quite comfortably and Bangladesh deserve to win, they have been the better team so far with both bat and ball.

I think there's a Maxwell's chance in ODIs forever of Mitchell repeating said feat and launching a one man winning attack to take the side home.

not saying he'd need to score a double, but that such one man basically carrying the innings from 7+ down needing well over 100 are so rare it is beyond unlikely and into the realms of challenges on Brian Lara Cricket