120/5 at tea. Good session for us, Windies weak middle order exposed. Good opportunity to get a decent first innings lead with a good final session. This partnership is the key. Imlach the last guy who will really be able to offer resistance.
GONE
Conway finally takes a catch and an excellent one at that. Chanderpaul gone bowled Foulkes.
Conway holds onto the hardest of the three to finally get arid of him. I believe the drops were 5, 24 and now out for 52. So not that many runs really.
FFS!
That's going to be a goober for Mitch Jr!
The Channel 9 commentators from the 80s would have an absolute field day on our catching efforts!
@Bovidae said in West Indies tour of NZ:
What is it with Wellington players dropping catches?
Mitchell would have caught that.
Bracewell is like a pre-Indian tour homeless man's Satnav
According to me:
Duffy has a test bowling average of 12.3 and Foulkes is averaging 8.9.
Matt Henry needs to pull finger!
32/0 at stumps, lead 96.
Good position to be in. Hopefully a bright sunny day tomorrow and plenty of runs. More likely, another tough day grinding to 250 and 300+ lead and a couple of overs at them before stumps.
Duffy with the best numbers, but I thought Henry bowled better. Duffy did a good Wags impression to remove Hope plus did a nice demolition job on the tail, but Henry almost too good at times and wan just unplayable.
Hope and Chanderpaul fought hard and I thought the keeper Imlach applied himself well. The rest of the West Indian batters will need a massive improvement or this series will be very one sided.
Massive day for Latham coming straight back out to open after keeping. I wonder if he'll keep in the second innings (especially if he ends up batting for a while) or if they'll have someone else do it. They do know a sub fielder can do it now right? Didn't have commentary on for most of the last session so not sure if Blundell's available to bat or not. Bracewell at 6 isn't much better than the West Indies.
@Cyclops Yeah - it was a lot of fun watching Henry bowling, but I also really enjoyed Chanderpaul's fight. Selling his wicket dearly.
We've ended the day in a pretty dominant position, which would have probably been even better with better catching.
These two are "must win" tests if we want to be in contention for the WTC.
@Chris-B said in West Indies tour of NZ:
According to me:
Duffy has a test bowling average of 12.3 and Foulkes is averaging 8.9.
Matt Henry needs to pull finger!
Also has a batting average of 40 which makes him the best all rounder in cricket history.
Good effort to clean up the tail which shat the bed as expected. Roach actually did well to hang around like he did cos the three behind him certainly didn't.
Handy lead of 96 already and plenty of time to bat considerably better than the first innings. Can't just hope KW does the business, someone else needs to step up and support him too !