Yeah I feel like we're in more trouble than it looks on the scorecard, since Abbas (or another part timer) has to bowl about a quarter of the remaining overs.
I don't know what the selectors are thinking - maybe he bowled more in the one day or plunket shield, but when I watched him play T20 his bowling was very much handy 6th option rather than core bowler.
@Cyclops said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Yeah I feel like we're in more trouble than it looks on the scorecard, since Abbas (or another part timer) has to bowl about a quarter of the remaining overs.
I don't know what the selectors are thinking - maybe he bowled more in the one day or plunket shield, but when I watched him play T20 his bowling was very much handy 6th option rather than core bowler.
Babar Azam has an extraordinary record in this form of the game. Getting him is key. Bowling options are looking a bit light.
All over, Pakistan all out for 271.
Better than I thought they'd get. Should encourage them to be competitive for the next couple of games.
Fuck i gotta stop checking the score on cricinfo, been in twice and each time we lost a wicket.
can someone else take a look please...
@Virgil said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Fuck i gotta stop checking the score on cricinfo, been in twice and each time we lost a wicket.
can someone else take a look please...
95/2 after 14
@Virgil said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@booboo said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Nicholls 19*
Good Mitch 16*theres a bad Mitch?
@Virgil said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@canefan cheers, makes sense now.
Son Mitch = Great
Dad Mitch = Cockwomble who didn't pick CC for the 2003 RWCsome reason i was assuming Bad Mitch was Satnav (who i know the fern loves very much)
Satnav was not liked, but after his heroics in India he is reborn
BCs now 102/4 off 17 overs. Bracewell and Abbas will need to form a partnership here to ensure we aren't bowled out for a miserable total.
Abbas finding out about the highs and lows of cricket at this level.
What a contrast from a few days ago.
Not a huge amount of batting in the shed. Important partnership !
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Abbas finding out about the highs and lows of cricket at this level.
What a contrast from a few days ago.
Not a huge amount of batting in the shed. Important partnership !
Based on our start he couldn't really go hard. Giving his wicket away cheaply would have been a silly move. He's got runs on the board which at this stage of the game, is most important.
@Canes4life said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Abbas finding out about the highs and lows of cricket at this level.
What a contrast from a few days ago.
Not a huge amount of batting in the shed. Important partnership !
Based on our start he couldn't really go hard. Giving his wicket away cheaply would have been a silly move. He's got runs on the board which at this stage of the game, is most important.
Yeah I think that's exactly what I meant, you may have worded it better.
The score still looks far too 1980s at the moment, time for them to have a swing.
Also, who is Rhys Mariu ?
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Also, who is Rhys Mariu ?
young batter, possibly our future Test opener.
Good innings from Mitch Hay here, critical he keeps going
@Virgil said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@canefan cheers, makes sense now.
Son Mitch = Great
Dad Mitch = Cockwomble who didn't pick CC for the 2003 RWCsome reason i was assuming Bad Mitch was Satnav (who i know the fern loves very much)
I love the interview where Son Mitch said he was furious and refused to speak to Dad Mitch after he left CC out of the squad. Great that he even copped it from his own son for that.
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@Virgil said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@canefan cheers, makes sense now.
Son Mitch = Great
Dad Mitch = Cockwomble who didn't pick CC for the 2003 RWCsome reason i was assuming Bad Mitch was Satnav (who i know the fern loves very much)
I love the interview where Son Mitch said he was furious and refused to speak to Dad Mitch after he left CC out of the squad. Great that he even copped it from his own son for that.
so he fucken should!
Nice to see Hay showing what he can do
@Virgil said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@Virgil said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@canefan cheers, makes sense now.
Son Mitch = Great
Dad Mitch = Cockwomble who didn't pick CC for the 2003 RWCsome reason i was assuming Bad Mitch was Satnav (who i know the fern loves very much)
I love the interview where Son Mitch said he was furious and refused to speak to Dad Mitch after he left CC out of the squad. Great that he even copped it from his own son for that.
so he fucken should!
Nice to see Hay showing what he can do
99 not out. Bugger !
Nice recovery from a bad position though. A more than defendable total
Just on the confusing Mitch situation, Santner is THE greatest one that's ever lived after his efforts in the test series in India.
You could combine Starc, Johnson and Marsh across the ditch and they wouldn't be close.
