***Official**** Sri Lanka in New Zealand 2014/2015

[Bahnz]

What a beautiful shot! KW would be jealous of that.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Bracewell is an example of what Southee could be if he tried to bat like a top order player.

 

[Bahnz]

I think part of the approach is a fear the pitch will flatten on day 2 meaning grounding it out to 255/9 by stumps won't be as good as all out for 215 with SL 40/2 at stumps. Right or not, appears to be their thinking.

Nah, this pitch isn't flattening out any time soon. It's been overcast all day, and the pitch is still so green that if it were a person it would definitely taking the day off work. Won't get properly good to bat on until day 3 at the earliest.

 

[Bahnz]

Boult fails at limbo.

 

[Athlai]

Awesome

 

[wellAlbidarned]

that was brilliant. Boult giving the crowd value for money.

Nicely controlled hook from Doug too.

 

[hendrix]

Nah, this pitch isn't flattening out any time soon. It's been overcast all day, and the pitch is still so green that if it were a person it would definitely taking the day off work. Won't get properly good to bat on until day 3 at the earliest.

We don't bowl well without runs on the board.

 

[Blocky]

We need them 4 down for less than 100 at close of play.

 

[viriya]

Prasad with "to hell with this nonsense"

 

[Athlai]

Boult's going to be massive today. We need him to perform.

 

[BeeGee]

Well done SL, excellent stuff.

 

[Jezroy]

Nah, this pitch isn't flattening out any time soon. It's been overcast all day, and the pitch is still so green that if it were a person it would definitely taking the day off work. Won't get properly good to bat on until day 3 at the earliest.

I hope you are correct - and tend to think you are

 

[Zinzan]

Nah, this pitch isn't flattening out any time soon. It's been overcast all day, and the pitch is still so green that if it were a person it would definitely taking the day off work. Won't get properly good to bat on until day 3 at the earliest.

Hope you're right.

 

[eroticfishcake]

will probably get them 5 down by today

 

[Maximas]

We will win this test match if Sanga is not out at the end of the day

 

[viriya]

SL's batting better not **** this up now after the bowlers did their job.

 

[viriya]

We will win this test match if Sanga is not out at the end of the day

He needs 5 more runs for fastest to 12,000.. wouldn't mind seeing that today (and him getting past 8 => getting a ton).

 

[OverratedSanity]

Can easily see Sri Lanka pile it on here.

 

[Maximas]

Getting Bmac was the turning point, had them under pressure from that point on and a mixture of good bowling and poor shots did the rest. Pradeep was brilliant, a little inconsistent and drivable but bowled the best areas throughout the day and always looked the most likely, Lakmal was a little lucky to pick up 3/70, he built some pressure in the first session but really didn't bowl all that well, Prasad was inconsistent but bowled some good spells

 

[Maximas]

Nervous now, heavily emotionally invested in this match now