Black Caps v England Test series

[sterling]

is it rain off or?

[nzzp]

@sterling said in Black Caps v England Test series:

is it rain off or?

Hosed down. Stayed dry. Then hosed down again. Got wet three times being outside. Still worth it for a day out at the cricket that included Ribs, Williamson's 18th, and dominance of the english.

[No Quarter]

Deserved 50 for Nicholls. He takes some stick on here, myself included, but he's played some high quality innings against very good opposition in his short career to date. Worth perservering with.

[No Quarter]

It's actually been a nice day in Aucks today, only the last half hour it's clouded over... and now the rain

[canefan]

Looks set in

[Virgil]

Next couple days do look pretty good weather wise
The rest of today looks unlikely to see anymore play

[canefan]

Meant to be worse tomorrow than today! Fine Monday but it won't leave us enough time to get them out. If we get no play tomorrow we'll need to declare overnight and send them in on the final day

[hydro11]

@canefan said in Black Caps v England Test series:

Meant to be worse tomorrow than today! Fine Monday but it won't leave us enough time to get them out. If we get no play tomorrow we'll need to declare overnight and send them in on the final day

No rain tomorrow arvo on metservice.

[canefan]

@hydro11 said in Black Caps v England Test series:

@canefan said in Black Caps v England Test series:

Meant to be worse tomorrow than today! Fine Monday but it won't leave us enough time to get them out. If we get no play tomorrow we'll need to declare overnight and send them in on the final day

No rain tomorrow arvo on metservice.

Cool. Accuweather says rain but I'm happy for them to be proven wrong

[hydro11]

Cricket! No point going along at 2 runs an over here though. Nicholls and Watling need to be positive.

[Virgil]

And with CDG due in next too

[Cyclops]

Fresh bowlers a ball that should still have a decent amount of shine on it. I'm okay with Watling and Nicholls taking a bit of time to get established. Hopefully after the first drinks break or so we start to play with a bit more intent. Our lead is good, but I'd prefer to take an extra session now and look to bat once only rather than be trying to chase 50 in a final session under lights with Anderson getting the ball to zip.

[hydro11]

CDG seems in a good mood.

[Paekakboyz]

Ooh don't you just hate it when you are outta reviews 😁

[Duluth]

@paekakboyz

Would it have been out? At the ground and we didn’t get a replay

[canefan]

@duluth said in Black Caps v England Test series:

@paekakboyz

Would it have been out? At the ground and we didn’t get a replay

Looked like it missed on normal replay down the wicket. Slight hot spot though

[canefan]

So when do we declare? Bat until dusk then make them try to survive the evening?

[Paekakboyz]

@duluth slight inside edge 😁

[canefan]

As poor and at sea as Nicholls looked in the ODIs, he has done well in the whites so far this match

[hydro11]

DRS is good - pre DRS people would be having a whinge about the umpire and it wouldn't feel as good if CDG got a big score. Now no one cares that he was lucky.