Posted by Buoyed by a first innings display in which he took six for a million, Neil Wagner persisted with his innovative attritional shock tactics in the second. He took 1-60.
It’s worth noting that Wagner produced this display despite a broken hand. More accurately, he produced this display despite a broken bowling hand.
Neil Wagner.
Hello
To the new top-ranked Test side, Australia. It was a hugely impressive performance from them in New Zealand. The only reason we didn’t write about it was because we didn’t want to because we were supporting New Zealand.
Goodbye
We’ve just noticed that we started an article about Brendon McCullum at some point recently and it’s saved as a draft. Rather than writing anything about him here and now, we’ll investigate what we’ve already written and maybe try and get something up tomorrow (if we get time).
Odds are the draft article’s just a heading and nothing beyond that, but we live in hope.
Goodbye?
Some classic Pakistan retirement talk from Shahid Afridi this week. Our man’s previously said that he’s retiring after the World T20, but now he’s admitting to being under pressure from friends and family to stick around a while longer.
His reasoning’s magnificent.
“I am saying there is a lot of pressure on me that I shouldn’t retire from T20; that I can play on – and as there is no real talent coming through in Pakistan whose place I am taking?”
Similar deliveries:
Neil Wagner sacrifices the opportunity to run in for a small fragment of the final session
While Neil Wagner might occasionally let you down, he does frequently pick up a few wickets from a long and determined spell when no-one else is really making any inroads
Neil Wagner never lets you down
Neil Wagner isn’t perfect
That Shahid Logic is the tops.
When someone suggests I retire, that is EXACTLY how I’m going to respond.
Sheer unadulterated class.