Black Caps - Bangladesh tour

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Bangladesh vs New zealand | 1st Test | Day 1 | LIVE

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[Bovidae]

Bangladesh won the toss and will bat. No Ravindra.

[canefan]

@Bovidae said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

Bangladesh won the toss and will bat. No Ravindra.

Is Nicholls playing? He will be under significant pressure to perform, with Ravindra ready and waiting

[delicatessen]

Southee always keen to get rid of a review early

[Daffy Jaffy]

@nzzp It was playing ok in NZ initially during the buildup. TV3 must have objected since they belatedly bought the rights. Easily fixed, I am now watching from Toronto!

[nzzp]

@delicatessen said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

Southee always keen to get rid of a review early

That's not on Southee - he is always optimistic. The slips and keeper should have heard the bat on that and not reviewed.

Still a bit of shape out there... not sure it'll be there much in this test, so take it while you can!

[Chris]

@canefan said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

@Bovidae said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

Bangladesh won the toss and will bat. No Ravindra.

Is Nicholls playing? He will be under significant pressure to perform, with Ravindra ready and waiting

Yes he is more of a choice between Phillips and Ravindra for that allrounders spot.
IMO they should have selected Ravindra ahead of Phillips.
Nicholls on the back of 200 in his last test was always going to get picked.

[Chris]

Nicholls for all the shit he gets still has 9 test centuries and a decent test record.
2. V Pakistain
2. V South Africa
2. V Sri Lanka
1 v England
1 V Bangladesh
1 V West Indies

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@Chris said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

Pakistain

hahaha

[Chris]

@nzzp said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

@Chris said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

Pakistain

hahaha

They are a stain on the game with their match fixing

[Gunner]

Can only assume they went with Phillips over Ravindra as he offers an alternative spin bowling option to take it away from the left hand batsmen?

[bayimports]

@Chris said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

Nicholls for all the shit he gets still has 9 test centuries and a decent test record.
2. V Pakistain
2. V South Africa
2. V Sri Lanka
1 v England
1 V Bangladesh
1 V West Indies

not one of these in these locations, all at home and one at a neutral venue

[Bovidae]

As I mentioned previously Nicholls has a lot of low scores between centuries in recent seasons. The 200 runs is probably a similar number of runs combined since his last ton.

[Chris]

@bayimports said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

@Chris said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

Nicholls for all the shit he gets still has 9 test centuries and a decent test record.
2. V Pakistain
2. V South Africa
2. V Sri Lanka
1 v England
1 V Bangladesh
1 V West Indies

not one of these in these locations, all at home and one at a neutral venue

Still a good record compared to Fleming who took 111 tests for 9 Cent
Astle 81 tests for 11 centuries.
Nicholls 55 tests for 9 centuries.

It is actually harder to score 100s in NZ on the seaming wkts than on some flat tracks overseas.

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Ajaz!

1 down 9 to go...

[Rapido]

@Gunner said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:

Can only assume they went with Phillips over Ravindra as he offers an alternative spin bowling option to take it away from the left hand batsmen?

Same.

Not really a good enough reason, though, IMO. The bowling.

Although Phillips has earned a shot, so good for him. Actuallt,maybe it is down to 'banging on door for longer ', that is sonething the leadership values.

But I would have like Ravindra to continue popping while it's hot.

[bayimports]

Bangladesh trying to play ODI cricket right now, glad we got the second wicket though

[Chris]

Shit gets wkts

[bayimports]

FYI for those not in NZ it is live on youtube