Black Caps v Pakistan
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Re: the comments about the new radio commentary team, I’ve listened to them a lot at the ground over the last couple of days... am still trying to figure out what I make of them overall. Bracewell is entertaining when he gets going.
One thing I will note in Peter Williams (partial) defence, on the first morning of the Hamilton test match it took 15 mins and the first commentary change to Williams before we were told that there were “three slips and a gully”. Doully sounds very promising for radio, but some of the converted TV commentators don’t paint enough of a picture at times. Though I get why Williams is polarising too.
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Re: the comments about the new radio commentary team, I’ve listened to them a lot at the ground over the last couple of days... am still trying to figure out what I make of them overall. Bracewell is entertaining when he gets going.
One thing I will note in Peter Williams (partial) defence, on the first morning of the Hamilton test match it took 15 mins and the first commentary change to Williams before we were told that there were “three slips and a gully”. Doully sounds very promising for radio, but some of the converted TV commentators don’t paint enough of a picture at times. Though I get why Williams is polarising too.
@Donsteppa I hope they grow into the role.
That said, I miss Wads. What a dead set legend of the game.
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Williams is an adequate play-by-play commentator, but I think he's struggling with having to provide colour commentary as well, as he's not cut out for that.
Wagner was off for the start of the innings, so probably wise that we have at least someone who can bowl if one of the seamers goes down. Doesn't have to be Santner, obviously, but it does have to be a bowler, and I gather Santer is it because of his batting.
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Williams is an adequate play-by-play commentator, but I think he's struggling with having to provide colour commentary as well, as he's not cut out for that.
Wagner was off for the start of the innings, so probably wise that we have at least someone who can bowl if one of the seamers goes down. Doesn't have to be Santner, obviously, but it does have to be a bowler, and I gather Santer is it because of his batting.
@Godder said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Williams is an adequate play-by-play commentator, but I think he's struggling with having to provide colour commentary as well, as he's not cut out for that.
Wagner was off for the start of the innings, so probably wise that we have at least someone who can bowl if one of the seamers goes down. Doesn't have to be Santner, obviously, but it does have to be a bowler, and I gather Santer is it because of his batting.
I'd still rather have Mitchell in that case (batting as the differentiating factor - for those who don't get context or nuance).
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@Godder said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Williams is an adequate play-by-play commentator, but I think he's struggling with having to provide colour commentary as well, as he's not cut out for that.
Wagner was off for the start of the innings, so probably wise that we have at least someone who can bowl if one of the seamers goes down. Doesn't have to be Santner, obviously, but it does have to be a bowler, and I gather Santer is it because of his batting.
I'd still rather have Mitchell in that case (batting as the differentiating factor - for those who don't get context or nuance).
@SynicBast said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@Godder said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Williams is an adequate play-by-play commentator, but I think he's struggling with having to provide colour commentary as well, as he's not cut out for that.
Wagner was off for the start of the innings, so probably wise that we have at least someone who can bowl if one of the seamers goes down. Doesn't have to be Santner, obviously, but it does have to be a bowler, and I gather Santer is it because of his batting.
I'd still rather have Mitchell in that case.
Bring back McMillan or Astle
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Hanging it out early here. Bit of a self inflicted wound here by NZC, groundsmen.
I'm all for green, but need to be green enough to last for 2 completed first innings. Maybe we batted too well?
Feeling WTC chances slipping away. Especially with Wagner's foot, who will produce something out of nothing? Imperative we produced 4 result wickets this season.
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Hanging it out early here. Bit of a self inflicted wound here by NZC, groundsmen.
I'm all for green, but need to be green enough to last for 2 completed first innings. Maybe we batted too well?
Feeling WTC chances slipping away. Especially with Wagner's foot, who will produce something out of nothing? Imperative we produced 4 result wickets this season.
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Hanging it out early here. Bit of a self inflicted wound here by NZC, groundsmen.
I'm all for green, but need to be green enough to last for 2 completed first innings. Maybe we batted too well?
Feeling WTC chances slipping away. Especially with Wagner's foot, who will produce something out of nothing? Imperative we produced 4 result wickets this season.
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I missed the last bit.
The Abid wicket was so bad, so village, that being Pakistan you get a bit suspicious. I'm rewinding the stream to watch the lead up, was there variable bounce or something making Abid hang back?
Edit. I see he got hit on the gloves by a lifter previous Jamieson over.
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Speaking of milestones, Southee takes 2 in an over to leave Pakistan at 60/5, and he moves to 298 test wickets - 2 to go to be our 4th bowler to reach 300.
Edit: as pointed out, 3rd.
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Dumb arse ground announcers and music: ask the crowd to "give a hand to the Black Caps coming back out onto the field"... and then instantly play music right over the top of it...
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@Donsteppa At least it was sunshine and not rain that stopped play in Napier last time!
@Higgins said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@Donsteppa At least it was sunshine and not rain that stopped play in Napier last time!
Exactly, one shower and that Napier ground would take the rest of the match to dry out the outfield
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Dumb arse ground announcers and music: ask the crowd to "give a hand to the Black Caps coming back out onto the field"... and then instantly play music right over the top of it...
@Donsteppa That is the worst thing about the ground. They blast out the same irrelevant songs at every opportunity. Seddon Park is so clever with their selections.
Everything else was great there yesterday.
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Back at the safety of the couch and cricket on two channels. Funny the way the weather has worked out, yesterday there were reports of heavy rain everywhere nearby, but all good at the ground.
Today what few showers there’ve been around seemed to go right over the top of us. Can confirm that a young pohutukawa tree does a good job of shielding several families from hail...
