Sometime you watch Ross Taylor bat and you think he could be a great, then you watch him do things like that and you see Craig McMillan all over again. Please let me be wrong because he has so much potential
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Thats about it yeah, what is about NZ that we continuously produce those kind of cricketers? McCullum is another one, Ryder may be prone to it. How looks like he has the potential to do it...... Deary me
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281/5, just 36 runs to get. It will take a one hell of a collapse to lose this game and I'm sure we are more than capable of that!
Nah... we'll be fine now. Mills, O'brien and Patel... all our inform batsmen are still to come.
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281/5, just 36 runs to get. It will take a one hell of a collapse to lose this game and I'm sure we are more than capable of that!
Nah... we'll be fine now. Mills, O'brien and Patel... all our inform batsmen are still to come.
The sad thing is it's been that way for years
Three for me, and two for them.
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That was a tough 5 days to watch. I really hope for the sake of world cricket that Bangladesh are actually getting more competitive, and we're just not really poor and depend on Dan to bat and bowl for us.
Also tough because of Aschocker Da Silva as an umpire, what a joke. Worst desicion I've seen for a while. as bad as the penalty United won against Bolton the other week.
Also tough because of those commentators. Yardley is just awful. When you start lookin foward to Morrison coming on, then you're in trouble.
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� I really hope for the sake of world cricket that Bangladesh are actually getting more competitive, and we're just not really poor and depend on Dan to bat and bowl for us.
Unfortunately, we're absolute rubbish. Agree with everything else.
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- Daniel Vettori became the first player to score at least a half-century and take four wickets in two innings of a Test. He is only the third player, and the second captain, to score at least fifty in each innings and take eight or more wickets in a match.
- Before the Test series against Australia in 2005, Vettori averaged 20.58 with the bat and 35.06 with the ball in 59 matches. However, his all-round performances have improved consistently in the last three-and-a-half years. In the 25 Tests during this period, Vettori has averaged 43.56 with the bat, and 27.65 with the ball.
- New Zealand successfully chased a target in excess of 300 for the second time, and the first time away from home. Before this win, the highest score they had chased to win a match in the subcontinent was 82, against Pakistan at Lahore in 1969.
- Left-arm spinners accounted for 22 wickets in this match, which is the second-highest in all Tests. In the Bangalore Test between India and Pakistan in 1987, Maninder Singh, Ravi Shastri and Iqbal Qasim took 24.
- Shakib Al Hasan finished with match figures of 9 for 115, which is third in the all-time list for Bangladesh. The only bowler to take ten or more wickets in a match is Enamul Haque, who took 12 for 200 against Zimbabwe in Dhaka in 2005.
- The overall run-rate for the match was 2.25 per over, which makes this the slowest Test since April 2001, when West Indies and South Africa managed a combined run-rate of 1.99 in Antigua.
- Bangladesh's three-wicket defeat is their second-narrowest margin of defeat (in terms of wickets), after their one-wicket loss to Pakistan in 2003.
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FROM CRICINFO
09:00 local time: Play was expected to start half-an-hour early but the weather continues to play spoilsport. It has been raining since yesterday afternoon, gusty wind accompanied. It is still dark and raining, since the ground is specially made for drainage that looks fine, but the covers flooded with water. Players are inside.There may be an inspection at 11:00.
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FROM CRICINFO
Day 4: Good morning and welcome to Cricinfo's live coverage on day 4. The good news is that the weather looks good and the sun is shining brightly.The outfield is still wet, the umpires will be looking at 09:00 local time and play may get underway at 10:00 local time.
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Good times- we are already 2 down after 3.1 overs, losing both openers...
Also interesting to see Elliot playing- much rather have Southee out there- if there is any chance that we could win this (win is very very slim) we need to have our strongest bowling line up out there. That and the fact that Southee is probably no worse of a batsman than Elliott I'm surprised in his omission.
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Yeah, I agree they need their best bowling lineup out. Though would they have named their 11 when the test was scheduled to start or when it actually did start, because that may be why.
In the meantime, chance for some good batting practise before Australia.
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To be fair Tobz, Elliot is a much better batsman than Southee but for the most part i agree with you. And that pitch takes being a road to whole new levels
Elliott:
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 5.00 | 52 | 19.23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Southee:
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 2 | 3 | 1 | 83 | 77* | 41.50 | 69 | 120.28 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
Based on a sample of 3 matches I am right.
However, I know that Elliot is a better batsman, just don't really like him so wasn't going to be logical.
Fair point about naming the squad prematch Simon.
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And we are three down. Taylor out:
| Shahadat Hossain gets his first wicket in very first over. McCullum is the new batsman. New Zealand's top-order again fails. |
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| 12.3 | Shahadat Hossain to Taylor, OUT, three down, Taylor goes as he shoulders arms to a delivery that jags back in and hits the top of the off stump.
49/3.
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