We’ll bowl them out tomorrow. Turning square already. Open the bowling with Wellington and masekesa and start the collapse, dr wez phd will get a few overs and so will Bennett if old Ervine has his head in the game. Williams, who knows. Depends what his chiropractor says.
Bowling us out for 400 though will still put you well behind the 8 ball so to speak. Lets say we bat 80 overs tomorrow at 4 an over...thats a total of 320 and a lead of around 70 or so.
I wonder if playing Nyauchi over Ngarava would have been the more tactically prudent move. Nyauchi was the 2nd best seamer and if there's any swing on offer he will find it. Ngarava doesn't really move the ball, isn't accurate at all, and doesn't really bowl all that fast. He also doesn't generate the steep bounce you'd expect from a guy who's 6'4". Nyauchi troubled the BD batters a lot more in Sylhet.
Agree with Nyuachi.
I feel you can really tighten an end up with him.
If Blessing gets his channels right early, it could be very interesting.
There is still some bounce and zip on this track. One interesting thing is the weather forecast according to google seems ot have changed, no rain at all till Day 5...which means the sun will bake the shit out of this already dry track meaning its going to crumble like a cookie as the match goes on. Variable bounce and square turn coming soon...
Tough to set the same field as the Bangladeshis did because our spinners are not as accurate, but their field sets yesterday were brilliant.
Vinnie needs to bowl some wrong'uns, mix it up a little because this is too predictable.
That right length for spin is a small window. We're mostly too full and they can milk the singles or they drag one down. We literally bowl 2 balls an over where they have to stretch for it, defend and hope they've picked the right line. That's simply not good enuf at this level.
At one point Williams and Welch were going at 1.5 an over for about 20 overs on the trot and our spinners are gifting them 4 an over.
