Oh crap. I didn’t know it was THAT rare. Sorry Joey. You’ll get it next time.
No he will not.
Riveting finish in this one. Broadcast just showed this would be only the 4th-ever win after having to follow on (if NZ win)
Wow! Just wow!
An exceptional test match, well done New Zealand. I can only repeat this:
Great game, there really is nothing in sport quite like Test match cricket for sustained tension.
I still maintain there was little wrong in the ambition or decisions of England. New Zealand batted really well in their second innings and England didn’t. I’d rather have us falling agonisingly short going for the win than being happy with the draw.
Yep, it certainly isn’t impregnable. It is high-risk and a great bowling or batting performance by the opposition, or a slight mis-fire by you may scupper your plans.
How entertaining is it though?
In almost reverse match situation also makes for gripping viewing AUS, again playing 3 spinners bowl IND out for 109 on a bunsen burner.
In reply IND opened their bowling with Jadeja and Ashwin. A couple of the more enthusiastic Indians at my cricket club thought the pitch was so poor that 109 might be a winning score.
Currently AUS are 3-130 on the back of one of the best half centuries of Kwahaja’s career.
Personally I wasn’t convinced that AUS would lead on the first day if they had batted first.
And as if we didn’t realise that the cricketing gods are a capricious bunch we have Australia with a tail-end collapse and India ekeing out the slimmest of leads in a game where who the hell knows what’ll happen next. It ain’t bazball but it certainly is compelling.
Don’t know about you but I’m loving test match cricket at the moment, whatever form it takes,
Pujara out with the lead at 67. It’s going to be very entertaining indeed if the Aussies fail to chase this down.
lead up to 75 now, it’s not nothing but under normal circumstances anything under 150 should be a stroll…but…?
75 and out. You’re exactly right - I do expect Australia to get these without too much difficulty, just saying I will bask in schadenfreude if they don’t. India will know they aren’t out of it. Presumably they will go all out with attacking fields from the off.
ETA: not clear to me yet if there is time for Australia to start their innings before the close, no doubt they are hoping not.
One of the commentators said at the start of the next to last over that Australia would not have to bat if they picked up the last wicket in the last three overs.
Stumps Day 2.
AUS need 76 to win.
What are the odds on a draw? 
whatever they are I’ll be happy to accommodate you!
250-1 on Ladbrokes
It was 500-1 against at Headingley in 1981.
Ladbrokes are hedging. 
Nitpick: wasn’t it 500-1 against an England win, and Lillee and someone else put a few quid on it? More innocent times (though they still got in trouble, no-one thought they might throw the game).
Isn’t that basically the odds that an expected 3-day storm pops up out of nowhere?
Would think the odds on 3 days rain are a bit longer than that …
I would think some man made factor would be more likely.