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***Official** Sri Lanka in New Zealand

NZTailender

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Geeze, when was the last time we had a 50 run opening partnership?


When was the last time we had a 100 run opening parternship? :(
 
NZTailender

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Uh oh. Fleming gone. Sri Lanka turning to match towards their favour!

Kind of torn. Want NZ to win but I am president of the CVAAS after all :cool:
 
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In just those six balls bowled by Malinga, Nathan Astle secured his position in the test team.
 
straw man

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I think Astle has to be in the test team at the moment. Need at least a couple of players in the top order with a few matches under their belt and Styris is injured.
 
Fiery

Fiery

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Astle showing his experience and totally unfazed by the state of the match. Just playing his natural game like he's batting in the nets as always. Calls in this forum to drop him just ridiculous I thought.
 
NZTailender

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Fiery said:
Astle showing his experience and totally unfazed by the state of the match. Just playing his natural game like he's batting in the nets as always. Calls in this forum to drop him just ridiculous I thought.
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Agreed. I always thought he should retire on his own terms. He has plenty of experience and averages over 40 in the spot of number 5.
 
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They did have some cricket free-to-air last year on Prime TV. But that doesn't seem to be happening this year for some reason.

I hate Sky TV - making you pay $40 a month for a few rubbish channels just so you can have the privilege of paying extra for sport is not cool.
 
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Don't understand why they're taking tea when NZ need only 17 to win.
 
Fiery

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If they're going to produce low-scoring pitches they should start the games on Friday or Saturday so that they last the weekend at least
 
NZTailender

NZTailender

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NZ should wrap this up (but you can never rule out some Murali magic...)

I hope both sides improve greatly for the next match. Both sides look very rusty. NZ will probably field an unchanged line up for the next test and I would give How the next test to really impress before we start looking for another option. A few people would probably call for him to be dropped after a fairly awful performance in this test, but I think he deserves the next test considering it's just a two test series and our next test series is a while off again.
Bringing in a new player for one test won't achieve too much, IMO.
But it will have to be a big performance, at least 150 in the match (with 1 century) to seal his spot for another test series.

I think Sri Lanka, obviously, will need to replace P Jayawardene and perhaps Silva. I don't think he's ready yet, to be honest. Bring in Dilshan, and perhaps replace Maharoof.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm looking forward to the ODI series now. We'll hopefully see some new players blooded or, at least, Taylor and Fulton getting another go.
 
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