SL tour of NZ, Dec 3 - Jan 10

[Alviro Patterson]

Seems to be a number of interruptions due to the weather, which Accuweather haven't picked up on.

[dan08]

Guptill drops a sitter.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Start is 21.00GMT tonight.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Brisk start for SL.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Fifty for Dinesh Chandimal. Not much there for the Kiwi bowlers. May need something from their spinners. SL win doesn't look likely though.

Fancy a Kiwi win after tea.

[Alviro Patterson]

Angelo Mathews is not interesting anything wide of off-stump, what a lovely straight drive for four.

[dan08]

All on this pair. Not much after that.

Their tail is shocking.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Herath has a history of being a nuisance.

NZ commentary box in crisis, turning on each other like a disparate assortment of survivors of an earthquake trapped in a lift with the air running out.

Not that bad, lads.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Wow, 143k delivery from Wagner. The SLans haven't enjoyed his short balls.

[dan08]

Not sure what happened there. But Mathews is out bowled to Wagner.

[Arthur Crabtree]

That was coming.

How often does Wagner break a partnership? Given his average, in the mid thirties, you'd have to say, not very often. But he does seem to.

[Alviro Patterson]

Wagner has a habit of bowling dross, then comes up with a random wicked delivery. That ball kept rather low.

[dan08]

He's the sort of player every team needs. Not the greatest bowler but he'll keep running in all day. Bit like Siddle.

[Arthur Crabtree]

A little sliver of sunlight illuminates a narrow, dusty corner of the NZ lift. Smith, his sleeves rolled up, a vein throbbing erratically on his temple, briefly stops yelling uselessly into the confined space and gulps in more than his fair share of air.

[dan08]

Chandimal gone. Game over.