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This pitch in a NZ domestic game is as green as the outfield! Looking at the scores, I see one of their matches had a team all out for 65. I’m guessing that’s the game there!

RustyCage wrote:
This pitch in a NZ domestic game is as green as the outfield! Looking at the scores, I see one of their matches had a team all out for 65. I’m guessing that’s the game there!

Basin Reserve in Wellington. Already day 2 so I guess day 1 was lost to rain....

WTF is going on?
Turn it on to watch and Agar and Scott have bowled about 6 no balls between them in the last few overs
Then Scott bowls a whole over with every ball leg stump or wider
Seriously, is this the best SA can come up with? Utter Rubbish !!!!

Pope on now.

Scott bowling very much leg side. With the field setting (tandem shortish midwickets) think this would be a plan to entice them to go over the top hoping for a miscue or playing across the line.

DOC wrote:Pope on now.

Scott bowling very much leg side. With the field setting (tandem shortish midwickets) think this would be a plan to entice them to go over the top hoping for a miscue or playing across the line.

It's how Richo got Jack Doolan out.

Why the hell is Pope bowling around the wicket?

had them 3/15 now they are 3/144

locky801 wrote:had them 3/15 now they are 3/144

Don't worry we will probably take 4 in a flurry, look half a chance to getting back into the game before the tail adds another 180-200 and ends us.

Oh dear. Neilson has just dropped the biggest sitter I've ever seen a keeper drop and I've been watching cricket for 45 years. The Redbacks are seriously ordinary.

regards,

REB

Rik E Boy wrote:Oh dear. Neilson has just dropped the biggest sitter I've ever seen a keeper drop and I've been watching cricket for 45 years. The Redbacks are seriously ordinary.

regards,

REB

Thought Sayers took it well

Amazing how all the pitches turn into roads when we bowl

Eagles2014 wrote:

Rik E Boy wrote:Oh dear. Neilson has just dropped the biggest sitter I've ever seen a keeper drop and I've been watching cricket for 45 years. The Redbacks are seriously ordinary.

regards,

REB

Thought Sayers took it well

He has to when the nuffy's Dad decides the contracts [emoji6]

3/12 off 13.. Sayers doing Sayers things.. shame Pope is unable to build pressure as well.

The Bedge wrote:3/12 off 13.. Sayers doing Sayers things.. shame Pope is unable to build pressure as well.

And 5 of them were wides, when he was that frustrated after the Neilson drop catch and Harry went up to the stumps, and he bowled a bouncer that went flying over his head!!

Sayers gets the wicket finally but scores level at 4/195

Calling a big ton from McDermott here

Stumps day two
SA v Tasmania
Tasmania 5/311, leads by 116
McDermott 90
Wakim 83
Doran 82*
Sayers 3/21 from 24 overs with 14 maidens

WA v NSW
NSW 6/443 declared
Henriques 167
Solway 86
Abbott 60*
Nevill 56*

WA 2/152, trailing by 291
Whiteman 81*

Since Lloyd Pope had 5/84 off 17 overs in the 1st innings against WA, he has bowled 43 overs for 0/246

He still has a fair way to go, can bamboozle tail end batters, but causing any decent batsmen no trouble at all which is concerning.

Pope tends to do OK against batsmen who've never seen him before - I'm pretty sure he took a couple of Pakistani wickets in a tour match last year.

The problem is when he's up against guys at FC level who've already faced him.

Eagles2014 wrote:Since Lloyd Pope had 5/84 off 17 overs in the 1st innings against WA, he has bowled 43 overs for 0/246

He still has a fair way to go, can bamboozle tail end batters, but causing any decent batsmen no trouble at all which is concerning.

Except he got the first (only) five wickets against WA

Seems to have too big a difference between his best and his worst at the moment. When he's even slightly off he goes for 6+ per over and doesn't seem to be able to reel it in.

Still issues with the consistency of his leg break.

Commentators mentioned that he didn't have a single maiden over in the WA game

Day 3 progress scores-
Tasmania 5/353, leading SA by 158.
Doran 102*
Paine 42*

WA 2/224, trailing NSW by 219.
Whiteman 106*
Green 70*