Australia tour of New Zealand - Feb 2016

[Arthur Crabtree]

183. It's some kind of a score.

[GarlicJam]

Well, that worked. Just that boult scored another couple of sixes.

Good tail-end work from Craig and Boult. The bowlers will have every right to give the Kiwi batsmen a hard time in the changerooms.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Highest partnership was for the last wicket.

Nice score for Craig's average.

Presume it's tea. May as well sleep.

[GarlicJam]

he, he, he...

I have just brought up live streaming at work - got around the firewall.

My limited productivity today will plummet even further.

[GarlicJam]

I am sure that it has happened before, but surely it doesn't happen too often that all 10 wickets are caught.

[GarlicJam]

oh dear

[shankycricket]

This could get very ugly for Australia

[bigfluffylemon]

New Zealand were clearly hoping to win the toss and bowl - I was worried when I saw they'd been sent in. All caught behind - has there been a lot of movement, or wafts at wide ones?

The only downside for Australia is that Bird hasn't looked particularly threatening - he's gone for 5 an over despite the clatter of wickets. So much for horses for courses, at least so far.

Looks like Australia will be batting before tea.

Bird has conceded runs everytime he's come on.

Most of the wickets have been wafts. Mostly lack of discipline, some provoked by a build up of pressure. Mostly NZ were unwilling to give the first session to the bowlers.

Live by the sword, die by the sword, I guess. A positive mindset and attacking cricket are all very well, but some teams would do well with a good old fashioned opener in the mould of Gavaskar, Boycott etc. who can block out a difficult first session. 70-0 is far better than 100-3 at lunch on the first day of a test match on a green wicket.

Khawaja and Smith are on the attack now, but you'd have to expect that more wickets will fall before the close. If they don't, Australia will have already won.

[bigfluffylemon]

I am sure that it has happened before, but surely it doesn't happen too often that all 10 wickets are caught.

58 times, apparently, including this one, in nearly 8000 test innings played
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... e=fielding

[GarlicJam]

Good partnership so far tween Khawaja and Miffy. Long may it continue.

[bigfluffylemon]

Surprised Boult's only had the one spell.

[GarlicJam]

Bracewell just bowled Voges (very nicely - top of off bail), last over of the day, only to have it called a no-ball.

Replays show that it WASN'T a no ball.

ooooh....

[bigfluffylemon]

Along with losing the toss, NZ haven't had much luck today. But they dropped Smith and batted with some ill-discipline, so they can hardly blame bad luck for being in this position.

As they say, you can't win a test match in a day, but you can lose it. It'll take a miracle for NZ to win from here.

[GarlicJam]

They did have Craig get away with being bowled - the bail didn't dislodge - and plenty of runs were added to the Kiwi total after that.

[GarlicJam]

Bird hasn't played since Durham in 2013.

Thought Kiwis might have got away with that with no hot spot...

Hmm.

the shape of the wave on RTS wasnt that of an edge

normally they are narrow and tall, that was wide and short, not sure what the noise could have been other than an edge though as the bat was knowhere near the pad

I saw this a few times on replay, and would disagree. I thought it was quite an edge-shaped spike.