*Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh 2023/24

[Moss]

I'm familiar with it but I'm still hopeful that the selectors will have enough sense to pick Ravindra ahead of Nicholls for the next test.

They have an excuse to drop Nicholls now with scores of 19 and 2 in this test, time to strike while the iron is hot.

Very tempting to pick Ravindra on ODI form, but I wonder if he and NZ would be better served if he first puts in the yards for Wellington this season. Till then Will Young is an option though he seems to have a lower ceiling than Rachin.

 

[Skyliner]

i retract this comment

 

[Neil Young]

Just seemed like a matter of time with Conway, he looks like he could do with a spell to refresh, he looks cooked at the moment.

He's been playing a hell of a lot of cricket in all formats.



I'm familiar with it but I'm still hopeful that the selectors will have enough sense to pick Ravindra ahead of Nicholls for the next test.

They have an excuse to drop Nicholls now with scores of 19 and 2 in this test, time to strike while the iron is hot.

The iron has been hot for quite some time.

 

[Flem274*]

3rd innings killing us here. I didn't see much of it but if the pitch was the same, we really should have made more if it. There's definitely usable assistance for spin.

 

[Athlai]

Gutted

 

[ashley bach]

Ah well guess that's the end of this test cycle, it was fun while it lasted. When's the next one?

 

[Aritro]

It's such a big hole that even @Aritro can't see NZ somehow squeezing out of it.

Yeah Windies chasing down 400 and whatever is still on my mind, but this pitch has a bit more than that one tbf

 

[King Kane]

Taijul all over us here.

Phillips our last hope, another wicket soon and this could be all over tonight.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Very tempting to pick Ravindra on ODI form, but I wonder if he and NZ would be better served if he first puts in the yards for Wellington this season. Till then Will Young is an option though he seems to have a lower ceiling than Rachin.

South africa is sending a C Side over to NZ in Feb , that would be the perfect opportunity to get in some new blood against the mighty Dane Piedt and Tshepo Moreki..

Give Ravindra a run , NZ win their first ever Test series vs SA and the poster boy gets the glory to hail the start of a new era for the Black Caps , that's the script I would aspire to execute from a New Zealand POV.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Wow! Not a great test for Blundell.

He really struggled in India with keeping and batting but was great in Pakistan 12 months ago.

 

[trundler]

Been a fan of Taijul since that series in SA. Bloke's gun. Would make our side so much better.

WTF that was out as **** surely.

 

[Athlai]

Rachin
Conway
Williamson
Mitchell
Nicholls
Latham (+)
Phillips
Santner
Jamieson
Southee
Sodhi

 

[Moss]

Exemplary from Taijul you’d have to say. Take out Kane’s century and NZ’s top order has been completely outplayed.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Really disappointing the way we've gone about this chase. Bangladesh have bowled great but we've just allowed them to dictate terms. 28 overs gone and we're barely scoring at two per over. Would have loved to have seen a bit of positivity out there and putting some of the pressure back on the bowlers. Endless defending is dangerous against these bowlers and playing into their hands.

Imagine if we'd gone out and Bazballed it, how would Bangladesh have reacted? Not well, I reckon.

 

[Athlai]

Bangers the better team by a good margin here.

Taijul at home wafg

 

[Flem274*]

Wow! Not a great test for Blundell.

He really struggled in India with keeping and batting but was great in Pakistan 12 months ago.

Pakistan was a bit roady.

 

[ashley bach]

Mitchell/Phillips blitzkrieg required.

 

[Moss]

Wow! Not a great test for Blundell.

He really struggled in India with keeping and batting but was great in Pakistan 12 months ago.

Less of a comment on Blundell but those Pakistan wickets were dead in comparison.

 

[Meridio]

3rd innings killing us here. I didn't see much of it but if the pitch was the same, we really should have made more if it. There's definitely usable assistance for spin.

Yeah I didn't see too much either but the main difference seems to be that our spinners would cough up a loose ball every over. Something dragged down or well overpitched and asking to be hit to the boundary. Bangla bowlers on the other hand giving nothing away, mixing the pace up but still maintaining their accuracy. Think they've set their fields very well too, no easy singles around and boundary riders in the right places.

 

[Skyliner]

The NZ sports media scribes will be writing screeds about how this debacle all stems from “the bizarre decision not to play Rachin Ravindra”. Whether true or not, the angle is obvious, the story writes itself.