I'm picking Ryder and How to turn this into a great series, while Taylor and Flynn alternate decent innings. And Vettori can pull a Harbajhan and get 50 versus Australia every time... slightly biased opinion, but hey. It's like they're playing on Kelburn Park in Wellington it's so green - home conditions, bar the humidity.
The reason NZ don't stand a chance is that when the pitch isn't helping in the next match Australia will put on 600.
Predicted this would happen. Everyone's rubbished New Zealand but they've come out and produced the goods. Australia's batting line-up is still being carried by too few people. Clarke and Hussey are still scoring the bulk of the runs and then there was Symonds' contribution but the rest have looked ordinary. Hayden's place is looking increasingly uncertain with each innings he plays, Ponting isn't looking too flash, Watson and Katich both failed and Haddin hasn't made runs for quite a while.
Everyone's underestimated New Zealand coming into this and they've come out and convincingly beaten Australia on day one.
Some great bowling by young Southee, he's going to be the future of New Zealand cricket. All the bowlers did well really although you'd expect them to with the pitch in the condition it's in.
Kiwis certainly have a bit to work with there young bowlers and it was a brave but correct decision by Vettori to bowl first but on that deck , but bowling Australia out for anything more then they did would have been a fail given the conditions .
Its amazing how the simple art of letting the ball go on a seaming deck seems to have gone out of the game , or the Aussies game at least . They simple played too much early and good channel bowling by the Kiwis forced them into indecision . Will be interesting to see how the Kiwis bat .....
Gabba traditionally is harder to bat on day 2 so we will get a better idea of things come stumps today .
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