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by K » Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:17 pm
Yes, yes, yes...
Malcolm who? Michael who? John who? Jack who? Jill who?
We can go on and on as long as a flat-track bully's innings!
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Neither Mr. Who nor I could comment on the night session before it started . But maybe Dr. Who could.
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by K » Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:24 pm
TV tells us: on this day 59 years ago, the first tied Test !
Ponting: "It can't have been easy facing Wes Hall in fading light."
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by K » Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:26 pm
Back in the present, Ponting contemplates declaring tonight.
The bat-three-more-sessions idea sounds safer and easier to me!
Ponting:
"We know the Australian bowlers are desperate to bowl under lights."
No surprises, there. Bowlers may be claimed to be dumb but they are not delusional or in denial.
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by K » Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:29 pm
Ponting says this was what he was worried about leading into the series: the NZ bowlers' lack of penetration in flat conditions.
Southee, Ponting tells us, is bowling only 120+km/h now. Ouch.
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by Pies4shaw » Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:30 pm
So, wicket is falling in the Australian innings, right, left or centre. 1/107.
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by K » Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:30 pm
Read what I wrote! Would you like me to repeat?
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by Pies4shaw » Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:34 pm
Back to more traditional cricket, can 1/111 make the breakthrough for NZ?
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by K » Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:39 pm
Santner takes out Aleem Dar. Hope it's not a knee injury. We don't need an inexperienced emergency umpire coming out.
Ponting and fellow commentator sound a bit concerned, as am I...
His 129th Test Match , we're told...
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by K » Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:45 pm
Play resumes.
Ponting returns to the declare-tonight idea.
Don't do it, Tim!
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by K » Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:02 pm
Baz M sounds keen on declaring tonight too.
But Fleming notes it "goes against" the run-rate Oz have managed so far.
Baz: "If you don't do it tonight, the next opportunity is 80-odd overs down the track."
It sounds like Baz thinks that would be interminable waiting for Oz.
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by Pies4shaw » Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:11 pm
Marnus reaches yet another 50. 1/131.
And that’s Drinks. 0/56 and just the two fifties between them to the Australians since Tea.
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by Pies4shaw » Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:18 pm
And the Drinks break does the trick. Marnus holes out at mid-on for 50. 2/131.