Cricket Banter

After a 134 run win in the 1st Test New Zealand fought hard after being put into bat by West Indies on a difficult pitch. At stumps they stand at 294-6. Nicholls is 117 not out. The pick of the bowlers were Gabriel 3-57 & Holder 2-65.

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England Test Squad - Sri Lanka
Root ©
Moeen Ali
Anderson
Bairstow
Bess
Broad
Buttler
Crawley
S Curran
Foakes
Lawrence
Leach
Sibley
Stone
Woakes
Wood

Reserves - Bracey, Crane Mahmood, C Overton, M Parkinson, O Robinson, Virdi

Day 2 Close
NZ 460 All Out Nicholls 174 Wagner 66 no Gabriel 3-93 Joseph 3-109
WI 128-8 Blackwood 69 Jamison5-34 Southee 3-29

Day 3
NZ 460
WI 131 All Out Southee 5-32 & 244-6 Campbell 68 Holder 60 no Boult 3-75 Jamison 2-43
West Indies trail New Zealand by 85 runs with 4 wicket remaining

New Zealand beat West Indies by an innings & 12 runs.
West Indies were bowled out for 317 in their 2nd innings, Holder top scored with 61 & debutant keeper Da Silva made 57. Wagner had the
best figures for the Kiwi's with 3-54.

Big Bash
Hobart Hurricanes were bowled out for 146, with McDermott & Ingram both scoring 46. Siddle had impressive figures of 3.3-0-16-5.
Adelaide Strikers got home with 8 balls to spare. Weatherald finished 68 not out & Carey made 55.

Australia India 1st Test - Adelaide (D/N)
India won the toss & elected to bat
India 233-6 Kohli 74 Pujara 43 Rahane 42 Starc 2-49
Close Day 1

Captain Kohli was run out, which triggered the fall of 3 wickets late in the day. The fell from 188-3 to 233-6.

Day 2
India 244 all out Starc 4-53 Cummins 3-48 & 9-1
Australia 191 all out Paine 73 no Labuschagne 47 Ashwin 4-55 Yadav 3-40 Bumrah 2-52

India only added runs to their overnight score in 4.1 overs

Bit shocked waking up this morning & switching on Radio 5LiveXtra, to here Australia batting, after India held a first innings lead Australia only require 50 runs. India have bee bowled out for 36 in their 2nd innings, highest scorer was Agarwal with 9. Hazelwood 5-3-8-5 & Cummins 10.2-4-21-4. At one stage 4 wickets went down on 15.This is the lowest score on this ground, & India's lowest Test score, beating the 42 they made against England at Lords in 1974.