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*Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh 2023/24

Meridio

International Regular
Excellent by Phillips and Santa, and nice to avoid a series defeat. As much as this was fun to watch though it's a pretty terrible pitch; it's basically entirely down to luck whether a batsman would survive an over or not. Excessive turn is one thing but the crazily variable bounce just made it a total lottery. Would've been a two day test were it not for the weather
 

Flem274*

123/5
Good win for the boys. Alqays got to take your opportunities on the lottery decks.

Will stick up for Nicholls a bit. This isn't the game he should be judged on. We messed up by not pulling him earlier last summer.

Still deservedly a first reserve bat for us ftr. Bro has 9 pretty high quality hundreds for us. There is a very good player in there, just not at this time.
 

Bahnz

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah had the proper South African attack came out it likely would've been curtains (most of the home runs he's scored in recent times came against weak attacks). Now he'll probably score a century in the second Test and the ride continues. It's like Marcus North on steroids.
Tbf, Nicholls has 2 hundreds - both on green tops - against SA's first choice attack.
 

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
Great innings from Phillips and Santner. Phillips rewards the reluctant 'back the talented young guy' selection like Rachin did in ODIs - interesting that his play-back-every-time approach actually worked vs the spinners here. Santner will be important on next year's tours of Asia too. Satisfying win.

Nicholls should be done for a while. Yeah he can still be a reserve batsman (competing with Young) but we surely have to bring in Rachin now.
 

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