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***Official West Indies in New Zealand***

Matt52

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U19 Vice-Captain
Polo23 said:
Why is the drainage in Dunedin so crap?
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Surely with our weather you would have thought that we would have the best drainage systems for cricket grounds in the world. The Gabba was amazing in its drying ability after those storms. Hears hoping NZ cricket invests a lot on drainage soon, we could double our amount of playing days if that happens
 
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Inspection in 15 minutes, so it'll probably be 2 before they're out. Anyone still fancy a result?
 
Athlai

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2 possible results:

NZ win
Draw

The draw easily the favorite, NZ would have to pile on 400+ and roll WI over twice to win, very very unlikely.
 
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Athlai said:
2 possible results:

NZ win
Draw

The draw easily the favorite, NZ would have to pile on 400+ and roll WI over twice to win, very very unlikely.
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You think so? I'd have said as a general rule, rain delays mean that the team batting second have the better chance of forcing a result. NZ need to be able to enforce a follow-on, WI only need to get within 50 runs of NZs total and they'll be left with an unlikely win/no chance of a loss situation on the last day.

I can't really see either team do it though. Will be very interesting to see the NZ bowling attack.
 
Athlai

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I can't see Windies bowling us out twice and imposing a high enough score against us to win in the two days they'll have.

We have 226 more runs than them already, and runs on the board are always more valuable than how much they 'could' score.
 
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Athlai said:
I can't see Windies bowling us out twice and imposing a high enough score against us to win in the two days they'll have.

We have 226 more runs than them already, and runs on the board are always more valuable than how much they 'could' score.
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*Shrug*

These teams could both conceivably get all out for 24 at any point. Btw, for the purposes of enforcing a follow-on is this game now classed as a 4-dayer because yesterday was washed out? Also, where's the next match being played?
 
Athlai

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*Shrug*

These teams could both conceivably get all out for 24 at any point. Btw, for the purposes of enforcing a follow-on is this game now classed as a 4-dayer because yesterday was washed out? Also, where's the next match being played?
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Not against the West Indian attack in these conditions. We did score 150+ in extremely hard conditions against Australia recently. :ph34r:

Next match is at the flattest of NZ tracks in Napier. Woohoo! (Still probably end in 4 days)
 
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2.45 start, weather permitting. In other words, go do something else and come back for the India match.
 
Craig

Craig

World Traveller
Saw the highlights from the 1999/00 series. Was quite a shock to not see hawkeye, snicko, hot spot, and the parallel line that goes from one set of stumps to the other. Also David Shepard umpiring a Test and seeing a keeper stand up to Nathan Astle bowling and not wear a mouth guard or a helmet. I guess it shows how far cricket has come in nearly ten years and some things we are used to seeing, that we didn't back then.
 
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