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

[Athlai]

Will try again after lunch.

 

[Spark]

uh ok

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Jesus.

 

[Zinzan]

Yeah, this isn't watchable at all. Sad times but you can tell the players don't want to be out there at all.

I'm not sure it's that they don't want to be out there as such. More a case of not wanting to celebrate or show any positive emotions, which is understandable.

Ah Craig gets another freebie.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Did anyone mention this is surreal?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Kind of hoping they won't have to appeal for a plumb LBW.

 

[Daemon]

I'm just thankful Tahir isn't playing and taking wickets atm. That would be awkward.

 

[Prince EWS]

Kind of hoping they won't have to appeal for a plumb LBW.

Or a close one, that is denied and then has to be referred.

 

[Zinzan]

Kind of hoping they won't have to appeal for a plumb LBW.

Agree, judging by the reaction to wickets thus far, I'm also curious how they'll go about appealing.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Watling seems a bit more animated.

 

[Zinzan]

Amongst all this flatness, lack of positive emotion & indifference, NZ are fighting their way back into this game. If they can somehow restrict them to <380, the pitch still looks good for their 1st innings batting.

 

[Hurricane]

sodhi deserves a wicket

 

[Hurricane]

Wicket. A lot of drift on that ball.

 

[Zinzan]

Lol, That wasn't a variation from Craig Rameez, it just didn't spin.

 

[hendrix]

this is surreal.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Craig's going to get the most anti-climactic 5-fer ever.

 

[Athlai]

Most bittersweet session ever

 

[Hurricane]

Wicket. A lot of drift on that ball.

I wonder if he can control his drift because that one went more than others. I used to have different grips to get different results.

 

[Zinzan]

Most bittersweet session ever

and still 45 minutes remaining, real chance of bowling them out before lunch. What odds at the start of play.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

this just doesn't feel like it should count for anything