Black Caps vs Bangles
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And 4 straight away. Controlled edge to 3rd man.
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Uncontrolled inside edge for 4 second ball.
Would have kept the slow bowlers on. That was working.
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3rd 4 in the over ...
15 off it.
Surely stick with the spinners and CDGH. make the batsmen make the pace
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Still 12.5 rrpo
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Ish concedes 2 off the first 4 balls ... and bowls Mahmudullah
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72 off 5 required at 14.4
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Wheeler applies the vice: 1 dot dot dot dot 1
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70 off 24 balls
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Sodhi concedes a boundary that over but finishes 4 over 2 for 22. Great effort
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49 off 2 overs
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And a wicket. Holed out going for it.
45 needed off 10 balls.
Reasonably difficult from here.
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41 off 9 ...
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Kane dumps one
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5.8333333333 runs per ball req
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Dot. Game over
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Yay Black Caps.
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So far so good navigating the Bangles sans Rosco. From what I gather they were expected to go OK on this tour and we've given them a sound spanking in all aspects. Good to see, given we face Aus and SA next.
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I had no idea this game was even on today which in many respects sums up their tour. Things aren't looking too promising for them come test time that's for sure. I just hope the BCs don't get too overconfident, S.A. and Oz are a different stratosphere to anything these guys can put up.
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Bangladesh have been very good, really. Competitive in basically every game and in most of them were winning at some point. It's kind of tough because if they had snagged a game you would be worried about how we were traveling. Bangladesh have made large strides forward - just can't win in New Zealand conditions at this point.
Of the 25 series we have hosted against Asian opponents since 2008 we have only lost 4 of them. We lost twice against India in 08/09 and twice against Pakistan in 10/11. Bangladesh have done about as well as Sri Lanka/Pakistan have in recent tours in the shorter stuff. I expect them to get done in the tests but in Bangladesh it would be another story.
