**Official** Pakistan v New Zealand in the UAE 2014

[CM Punk]

Dropped, thank god.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

500.

 

[Blocky]

What do you guys think will be a competitive score from here?

400-450 is competitive. And if they keep dropping us like that we'll get there.

 

[Kippax]

Commentators were just talking about it, apparently he wants to find a middle ground between attack and defense.

Southee believes in less?

I thought he'd go 'all the way'. Made him a man of success. Made him a man of today.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

We've got some massive batting averages in the team for guys who have started their international careers well.

 

[Blocky]

We've got some massive batting averages in the team for guys who have started their international careers well.

Problem is they've got massive bowling averages too.

 

[CM Punk]

Southee believes in less?

I thought he'd go 'all the way'. Made him a man of success. Made him a man of today.

If he goes 'all the way', I don't see him lasting long, that being said he probably won't last much longer either defending. So attacking probably is the best way for him to go.

 

[CM Punk]

Rahat Ali has outbowled Boult and Southee easily on these wickets.

I wish we had bowlers who could be as effective as him with reverse

 

[CM Punk]

Southee padded up to come in next...

 

[Blocky]

Rahat Ali has outbowled Boult and Southee easily on these wickets.

I wish we had bowlers who could be as effective as him with reverse

Boult will only feature in the first 15 overs of a ball. Southee I was surprised didn't perform better.

 

[CM Punk]

Boult will only feature in the first 15 overs of a ball. Southee I was surprised didn't perform better.

Are you talking about specifically here or just in general?

 

[Blocky]

Are you talking about specifically here or just in general?

In general, he's kind of what Southee was about four or five years ago - heavily reliant on the new ball and conventional swing as a weapon, doesn't really have movement off the seam, doesn't have natural variation and if the ball isn't swinging, you see him go for runs without wickets.

 

[Alex0paul]

Any dodgy streams available for the game?

 

[WindieWeathers]

lol, WW your signature is pretty funny.

Just a little fun my friend

Anyway as for this game..first session certainly Pakistan's...the kiwis are gonna have to rebuild here and certainly cannot afford to get anything under 400 because the way that Pakistan have been batting lately you'd back them to at least get close to that without doubt and then the pressure would be all on NZ on a wearing track.

 

[duffer]

Any dodgy streams available for the game?

Lots, use google.

 

[Immenso]

With the bat, Mark Craig has had the luckiest start to a career I've ever seen.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Any dodgy streams available for the game?

skygo is pretty dodgy.

 

[Immenso]

Sarfraz making me nervous about the money I've bet in this match. Almost literally, not figuratively, unbeleivable.

 

[Zinzan]

Just saw Anderson's dismissal. Ack, how soft.

 

[hendrix]

It's really getting to the point where Watling batting below Anderson and Neesham is starting to look ridiculous, not just strange.