[Match Thread] Zimbabwe v New Zealand: Test Match

[Jemisi]

[brmtaylor.com admin]

Waller surely can't continue taking the single now. He needs to have a swing, at the very least...

There we go

[Flower power]

Waller should be taught to Shepherd the tail . You cant take singles and let your sheep be devoured by the Wolf vettori who will gobble the sheepish tail . This is the difference of experience and inexperience. But anyway well played though Waller you were doing a repair job on a top order mess up .
Cheap wickets
1.Hammy
2.Vusi
3.Taibu
4.Chakabva

[Jemisi]

A brain fade in that over, but a couple of good shots

[brmtaylor.com admin]

A brain fade in that over, but a couple of good shots

Yeah. There is no better learning experience for Waller though; I doubt he will be so reluctant to farm the strike in future Test matches! The coaches will make sure of that after the close of this innings I'm sure.

[foreignfield]

Now that Ncube has survived an over from Danny I suppose Bobby will be back to 11 for the second innings (if need be).

[FlowerPower]

Was interesting Waller and Jarvis batting together being second generation Zim internationals...

[PieChucker]

My what a long waggy tail we've got!
woof woof!

[FlowerPower]

Hindsight being 20 20 vision Chigs as our third quick may have shortened the tail...but good effort all the same. Sibanda missing out on a deserved ton, Waller proving hhm wrong, as did Chakabva before the needless runout... we have made drawing all the more difficult but good effort all the same...

[Jemisi]

313, hhhmmm. Well, a dissapointment on this wicket, I think. considering where things were at, we should probably have manged another 50.

Still, we managed to bat a long time and had wsome decent performances. The very long tail is hurting us. I know we are supposed to pick the best 4 bowlers regardless of their batting, but these days the last 4 are expected to contibute, and our guys got 9 between them. The top 7 have done ok, with a little tail end support we would be at 350.

I think Meth needs to be picked for NZ, not Ncube.