NZ tour of Oz, Dec 4-9

[rich1uk]

mitchell marsh even more unlucky

BT's terrible coverage almost missed it

[Arthur Crabtree]

Game swinging NZ's way big time.

[hopeforthebest]

Wade paid the price for jumping the gun on his backing up no chance to reclaim his ground. Seemed close to tears leaving the ground.

edit: Marsh of course.

[rich1uk]

australia relying on smith again

that sounds eerily familiar

[alfie]

Seems Smith has reserved all the good luck for Australia today...pretty unfortunate for Mitch 2. Wasn't much he could have done about that.

A bit of pressure on Smith now . Not an unfamiliar feeling recently , I imagine

[hopeforthebest]

Australia will be delighted to reach 240 the way this games going. It may even be enough.

[hopeforthebest]

Why is it that every horizontal bat shot outside off called a cut shot? Surely when the ball is hit front of square it's not cut but driven.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Drop. Oh no...

[Arthur Crabtree]

Game swinging NZ's way big time.

NZ need a wicket.

[Arthur Crabtree]

This is like the last ten overs used to be. We used to call these the middle overs. Binary batting. Wickets in hand.

[hopeforthebest]

NZ bowlers seem to have shot their Boult. Travis Head has made NZ suffer for the Henry drop.

[hopeforthebest]

This 1000 run total in 2016 took 24 games, if others below him on the list played that many games Smith efforts would look rather modest.

[rich1uk]

100 up for smith

if anyone had told me that the guy i first saw playing against england 6 years ago would be putting up the sort of numbers with the bat, in all three formats, that he is now i would have thought they were insane

[hopeforthebest]

100 up for smith

if anyone had told me that the guy i first saw playing against england 6 years ago would be putting up the sort of numbers with the bat, in all three formats, that he is now i would have thought they were insane

Absolutely, he was a comical figure.

[rich1uk]

ferguson's pace has dropped bigly now that he has a few overs under his belt