@bayimports said in West Indies tour of NZ:
@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:
double hundy for Conway. Super stuff.
May as well have a crack at a triple, he has time.
You don't get many opportunities in cricket and time is on his side..long way off though still,
surely cant happen
He could get there before tea if things go his way. We're only a day and half a session into the match remember !
@bayimports said in West Indies tour of NZ:
@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:
double hundy for Conway. Super stuff.
May as well have a crack at a triple, he has time.
You don't get many opportunities in cricket and time is on his side..long way off though still,
surely cant happen
We only plan to bat once now. So might as well fill his boots
@canefan said in West Indies tour of NZ:
@bayimports said in West Indies tour of NZ:
@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:
double hundy for Conway. Super stuff.
May as well have a crack at a triple, he has time.
You don't get many opportunities in cricket and time is on his side..long way off though still,
surely cant happen
We only plan to bat once now. So might as well fill his boots
oh i agree, i am trying to keep the cricket superstition gods in check
35 double centuries by NZers, but only 15 above 225.
Devon with a chance to enter rarified territory.
I think we should be looking to declare about an hour after tea, having scored around 600.
Shows how shit the bowling was yesterday, great bowling today not only restricted run rate, but now Kane gooonnnneee
Conway finally goes for 227, fantastic knock. There is quite a bit in this pitch I reckon, WI will struggle against our seamers.
NZ will want to bowl for about an hour tonight so that the bowlers can really steam in without wasting much energy, but also retaining some shine on the ball tomorrow.
You also don't want to bat on and on to only bat once - because you want to have the option to bat a couple of sessions later - just to give your bowlers a bit of time to recharge between innings.
5.5 sessions is pretty much ideal in my view - with the option to bat two more later in the game = 7.5 sessions and that's half the time in the game.
Well done NZ, great first innings, well set up and continued by Rachin and a nice run a ball cameo by Ajaz
Nice hitting from Patel at the end, couple of 6’s to close out the innings
Gotta give the windies credit they bowled better today
Windies with a really nice positive start.
Massive mountain to climb though and this team can shit the bed in Crawley/Duckett/Pope like fashion at a moments notice…..
@Donsteppa said in West Indies tour of NZ:
Buffet bowling so far.
yep, we feasted and learnt nothing from that first day
is it the absolute road that the box score suggests?
2 days, 8 wickets, and almost 700 runs
Coney and Smith have both been scathing of the NZ bowling on the radio. I've been listening rather than watching the Windies innings.
Looked like there was something there for the Windies bowlers today, so I thought those who thought our bowlers might knock them over cheaply could be right.
To be fair, we're missing about half a dozen of our best bowlers, so we might be expecting a bit much.
Henry, Jamieson, O'Rourke, Satnav, Sears, Tickner - I think all would make this team - probably Fisher, as well.
@mariner4life said in West Indies tour of NZ:
is it the absolute road that the box score suggests?
2 days, 8 wickets, and almost 700 runs
If you bowl in the right areas you can get results, in fact Windies bowled quite well today, but soo much average bowling deservedly getting walloped
Watching at the ground, I presumed they were bowling to a plan for these 2 batsmen but it seemed to involve pitching it up and they were all being dealt to. I wondered if they think King has a weakness falling over and being LBW .... if that wasn't the case then it was just bad bowling
@mariner4life said in West Indies tour of NZ:
is it the absolute road that the box score suggests?
2 days, 8 wickets, and almost 700 runs
It actually isn't, there has been swing and seam and plenty going past the edge. Just poor bowling from both sides, not consistent enough.
