1st Test New Zealand v Australia Feb 29-Mar 4 0830hrs @ the Basin Reserve
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Great crowd and it's a Thursday
LukeParkerno1
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just a tad greenbatting is going to be a struggle
Be tough for 20-30 overs then as usual flatten out. Glad we lost the toss pitch will be a road after the middle second session we just need to fight these overs out
LukeParkerno1
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You do realise they have won in conditions that have been green right? India would have been fine they have the best bat in the world in Virat in their side
LukeParkerno1
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Henry does realise he needs to pitch it on the stumps right? Wasting the ball like Starc would have
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The capacity says the Basin is 11,600 & apparently Days 1-4 are a sellout...Not often that happens in test cricket now a days.
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A real cricket ground,beats a ground surrounded by stands.Some grass to sit on if you wish like the SCG hill so long ago.Showing my age I am afraid and a green top wicket do you you mind instead of those dust bowls in Asia these days.Basin looks magnificent.
Sun out, big crowd.
Deck on the greenish side.
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Thinking we have a diabolical idea of connection. Wet win cause u intrhude ...yeah that's fine
Pathological presence and no deriding character......
Pathological presence and no deriding character......
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This will be a dead set road in 20 overs.
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This plan to Smith is a good plan for any other bat on the planet.
Smith is so far across his stumps that for all the movement you're getting his head is on or outside the line of off. He can leave or play the ball as he wills; you're not going to get him to play at balls on a sixth/seventh stump line unless he wants. No leg slip/backward square and a straightish midwicket means you stray straight he just picks you off for singles and twos all day to the leg side. The pitch is bouncing regularly, and while the ball's moving in the air we've not seen sharp seam movement yet.
The ball stops moving in the air, this is going to be a very good deck for batting.
Smith is so far across his stumps that for all the movement you're getting his head is on or outside the line of off. He can leave or play the ball as he wills; you're not going to get him to play at balls on a sixth/seventh stump line unless he wants. No leg slip/backward square and a straightish midwicket means you stray straight he just picks you off for singles and twos all day to the leg side. The pitch is bouncing regularly, and while the ball's moving in the air we've not seen sharp seam movement yet.
The ball stops moving in the air, this is going to be a very good deck for batting.
Edge not carrying. Very lucky for Khawaja and unlucky for NZ.
Was that off the thigh?
How many of our runs are from edges?
Outside edge providing plenty of early runs.
I was focused on whether it carried and gave no thought to it being off the thigh pad.
Will O'Rourke looks like a NZer
LukeParkerno1
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Doesn’t matter how you get them openers make a career out of edges
I assumed it had been off the bat too.
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