*Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

[Nintendo]

Third time marnus's weight has gone nowhere and he's been squared up. Now he's out.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

22/2 @SillyCowCorner1

Sears 1/1

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

**** yeah. This young man looks the goods

 

[straw man]

Yeahhhhhhhh!

 

[Dick Rockett]

Hahahaahaha

 

[Nintendo]

Cameron green save us.

 

[ashley bach]

Can't say he didn't deserve that!

 

[King Kane]

FFS Mitchell, great first ball from Sears, deserved a wicket.

Now he gets the wicket anyway by taking a catch himself.

 

[Flem274*]

Yes boi good balls Sears. Good name for a bowler too.

 

[Spark]

Aus bowlers need to have a look here and ask why they weren't able to get this much movement and bounce from the same pitch...

 

[SteveNZ]

Have to give Southee his dues for giving the ball up. Here we go

 

[SteveNZ]

Yeah but he's taking it way too far. He needs to go back to an off stump movement rather than six inches outside

Oh I'm not defending it, he's cooked. And @TheJediBrah will be in soon to tell me I was exactly right

 

[Spark]

You guys aren't wrong and he's getting out like this a lot

but this time it wasn't on him. He played the right line as the ball was coming and even up until it pitched. Ball looked like it was repelled from his bat like opposite magnetic poles

You can see middle stump on the replay though and his head position is outside the line of the ball even before it moves off the deck. Great nut but any movement from there and he's screwed, as he was

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Also thank Christ he is getting ahead of dickface in the pecking order. If he isn't already.

 

[Flem274*]

Stating the obvious, Southee and Kuggeleijn need to step up here and support. Comms said Kuggeleijn has a niggle? Not talking a legal one.

 

[Nintendo]

Green charging Henry first two balls. Nice to see he's committed to this plan.

 

[Flem274*]

Loving the emotion the bowlers are bringing. Great lip read from Sears during the dropped catch, and his wicket celebration echoed the great man Neil.

 

[Son Of Coco]

We've got NZ right where we want them here.

 

[Starfighter]

I really don't understand why this season he's gone like three miles across his crease to the point where he's missing balls on off stump because he can't reach them

I remember some years ago people on here (might even have been you) thought he might revert to a more conventional technique when he got older and slower. It's as if he's done the opposite.

 

[Athlai]

@Bahnz taste it BTW