Black Caps vs Sri Lanka

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

Ravindra once again looked world class until he got himself out, again. That's his biggest work on; other sides have not found any obvious weakness in his game, he just gets over confident and throws it away.

The weakness I see in his game he is getting caught on short of a length deliveries where he is getting stranded a bit and drives at it when he should leave it or play off the back foot to keep control of his shot,just a lack of judgement on length.
It gets him caught behind the wkt or square he just seems to get in to a scoring zone and needs to pull back on certain deliveries.
He has all the goods to be World Class just needs to learn to change gears at times.

With the Champions Trophy coming up I hope Young keeps his spot ahead of Conway. Williamson will likely come in for Chapman which is hard to dispute but Conway has chosen to commit to other leagues so by default he should lose his spot.

I would also like to see Bracewell come in for Phillips. I feel like Bracewell is a little more devastating with the bat and Phlllips has been pretty poor of late.

Good stuff from these Chapman and Ravindra. Chapman looks a million bucks as he often does until he gets out meekly. This could be his chance to go on and get a really big one

Very typical Chapman innings there. Good 50 and then gets out softly.

And Ravindra gives his wicket away again after a loose shot. If he had Kane’s patience he’d be unstoppable.

Solid innings nevertheless. Gone for 79.

Sick contribution Latham - really justifying your inclusion over Hay.....

@Canes4life said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

With the Champions Trophy coming up I hope Young keeps his spot ahead of Conway. Williamson will likely come in for Chapman which is hard to dispute but Conway has chosen to commit to other leagues so by default he should lose his spot.

I would also like to see Bracewell come in for Phillips. I feel like Bracewell is a little more devastating with the bat and Phlllips has been pretty poor of late.

They will both play I think. Bracewell will come in for Smith, and will bat at 7.

Disappointing finish after the start Ravindra and Chapman gave us.

Hard to say what a par score is in a 37 over match, but it feels like we've ended up with about that. Competitive, but Sri Lanka will more than back themselves to chase it down.

Needed more from Mitchell at the end there. Need Henry to smack 20 odd off this last over and then come out and roll them.

For a change the batsmen deliver for the most part and the tail fail for the most part and I'm still disappointed in a BCs collapse. After forty fucking years I'm still a moron.

Limped home in the end. NZ will need to get early wickets as it is hard to defend on this ground. But runs on the board...

We should have scored another 30 or 40.

On the other hand at this stage it looks like enough.

BC’s right on top, SL imploding with 3 wickets in 5 balls to be 22/4

Smith lucky his brain explosion didn't end up costing much.

Jeez. These guys can't catch.

Although, it is only fair that ex-buckethands, now-butterfingers, Mitchell cops a drop off his bowling.

RRR is 10.59.

This game will just peter out and Sri Lanka will try for a bit of batting practice judging how they’ve played Smiths over

Ok maybe not. Nice from Kamindu hitting chrome dome for a couple of fours to get 50

I’ve realised I haven’t seen Mitchell without a helmet or cap for years, definitely resembles his Dad !

Nathan Smith just took the most amazing catch you’ll ever see.

Sri Lanka 136-9.

The "catches" ranged from comical to sublime.

Sri Lanka:
1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Avishka Fernando, 3 Kusal Mendis (wk), 4 Kamindu Mendis, 5 Charith Asalanka (capt.), 6 Janith Liyanage, 7 Chamindu Wickramasinghe, 8 Wanindu Hasaranga, 9 Maheesh Theekshana, 10 Eshan Malinga, 11 Asitha Fernando

New Zealand:
1 Will Young, 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Mark Chapman, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Mitchell Santner (capt.), 9 Nathan Smith, 10 Matt Henry, Will O'Rourke

Sri Lanka choose to bat first

@Duluth said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

Sri Lanka:
1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Avishka Fernando, 3 Kusal Mendis (wk), 4 Kamindu Mendis, 5 Charith Asalanka (capt.), 6 Janith Liyanage, 7 Chamindu Wickramasinghe, 8 Wanindu Hasaranga, 9 Maheesh Theekshana, 10 Eshan Malinga, 11 Asitha Fernando

New Zealand:
1 Will Young, 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Mark Chapman, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Mitchell Santner (capt.), 9 Nathan Smith, 10 Matt Henry, Will O'Rourke

Sri Lanka choose to bat first

I hope they can put something decent on the board.

An evening watching our boys chase a big score would be quite appealing.

That is an extremely strong batting line up when you consider Matt Henry would bat 8 for lots of teams.

Looks like we'll have a score to chase today

Seems the size of crowd perfectly suited to a 10k cricket oval.

@KiwiMurph I am not sure why the played the ODI in Wellington at the Basin, but I am glad they did. Much better atmosphere when the ground is packed.

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

Looks like we'll have a score to chase today

I hope so. Be good to see a big chase for us in the evening. I want to win but I also want to be entertained.

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

@KiwiMurph I am not sure why the played the ODI in Wellington at the Basin, but I am glad they did. Much better atmosphere when the ground is packed.

Shit yeah. Sri Lanka are not the kind of drawcard who would get the cake tin even half full. Basin is a much better option

Oh man I hope that injury isn't serious, he is batting so well

Sri Lanka's had plenty of nice starts, their issue has been collapsing after the first wicket. Big test now.

Gutted for Nissanka, love watching a batter with a clean bat do well. Hopefully he makes it back out.

Black craps turning up, school boy catching effort

Henry gets one back and back to 0 catches for the match now. Sri Lanka wobbling big time now.

Henry with 150 ODI wickets. Excellent record.

SL 290/8 from their 50 overs.

Hopefully Eden Parks ridiculously short boundaries come into play when we bat

They were a bit average in the middle but Sri Lanka had a good start and finish, so 290 is a reasonable effort overall. Bit of scoreboard pressure on NZ - should be an interesting chase.

Both openers had no idea

Lucky we bat deep, cos today we might need to

Bloody excellent catch and Mitchell is on his way.

20/3.