[Match Thread] New Zealand vs Zimbabwe, Only Test

[betterdays]

Praying for rain now

i'm thinking of the team sheet for the ODIs

[betterdays]

i am a zim-cric-tragic...sitting in my local shebeen, drunk (with no zimdoggy excuse of 'australiaday' or any such) refreshing my phone..hoping...
poor vitori, poor jarvis, poor cremer, poor tino, poor forster, poor brendan/den/don, poor tatenda, poor hamski ! good luck after lunch guys - we'll be here supporting no matter...

[betterdays]

ok, come on chaks and wally - let try to rally a bit here!! i suppose the first target is 47...then 54, small steps

[betterdays]

14 more wickets with most of three days to go

[betterdays]

Our current crop of bowlers, particularly Jarvis and Mpofu...should be persisted with

i didn't say earlier but as i'm on a bit of a machine gun mission atm - i agree with this and don't believe i've ever said otherwise (if anything - at the very start of my comewback to ZCF i was in favour of Vitori - and still see a LOT of potential in him) but the new ball atack has to be split up...i think it's far better to have smeone who will at the very worst, do no worse, come in and bowl their trundlers and keep the RR at an acceptable level and maybe get a wicket or two...in the meantime the boys can develop at a reasonable rate in an encouraging environment... not this furnace!!!

[betterdays]

i suppose the first target is 47...then 54, small steps

first target reached...still on course for lowest ever though... common lads don't!!

[Jemisi]

Train wreck. Ugly. Messy. Bloody.

[Jemisi]

Oh, and of course we couldn't let a disaster go by without contributing a run out

[betterdays]

Oh, and of course we couldn't let a disaster go by without contributing a run out

yup ... survive the crash, stand up and get hit by a car... lowest total ever...new dawn..very sad really!!

[Jemisi]

Well, it will be difficult to turn anything around here. If we make 150 in the second innings it will be a surprise.