Story New Zealand's Caribbean Battle - Stumps, Day 3 Up!

[Chater1703]

The song is Ashes by Embrace, you can listen to the full version here.

thanks for that, it's been played during the ashes and was really bugging me haha

 

[riz7khan12]

i remember this song from a FIFA game i have.

 

[timmy94]

Great videos mate! Love this!

 

[Spoobir]

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New Zealand were unable to capitalise on their good afternoon session with the ball, taking just one wicket in the final session of the day. They should be pleased with the one they did get however as it was key man Chanderpaul, although not before he had made a scintillating century.

New Zealand will also rue a missed chance to take the wicket of Baugh, dropped by Guptill at third slip off the bowling of O'Brien. It was a tough, low catch to his right he really should have done better.

Vettori has not had a good day with his own bowling and Chanderpaul was punishing him mercilessly. One of his overs went for 12 as Chanderpaul hit 3 boundaries, the highlight being a beautiful chip over point for 4. It was in Vetorri's next over where Chanderpaul brought up his hundred, a cover drive stopping just short of the rope allowing him to run 3 to reach the milestone.

A battle between Chanderpaul and Tim Southee came to a head in one over with the batsman hitting his second huge cut shot for six and a quite brilliant lofted square drive which bounced just short of the rope. However it was Southee who had the final word the very next ball as Chanderpaul mistimed his attempted drive and the ball flew off the toe of his bat to Jesse Ryder, who took his second smart catch of the day at silly point.

With the main man gone Carlton Baugh, who had previously been content to hang around and let Chanderpaul do most of the scoring, will now have to take a more active role in bringing the total up. Although his partner Darren Sammy showed he can certainly bat, with a big shot over the covers for 4.

And so as a great days cricket comes to a close New Zealand will already be looking to tomorrow where they will hope to bowl the West Indies out quickly and get started reducing the deficit between the two teams. West Indies on the other hand will be hoping very much that the tail will wag, giving them some much needed runs and further frustrating the Black Caps.

Close of Play West Indies 250 for 6 (Chanderpaul 122, Sarwan 51)

Scorecards:

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[riz7khan12]

too short and too wide from the kiwi bowlers, chanderpaul was virtually scoring all his runs through the gully region... very dissapointing. Atleast he's out now, Sammy looks dangerous, NZ would have to get him out early tomorrow otherwise they're looking at a score of 350+.

 

[HawkAussie]

Good Century by Chanderpul and Tim Southee getting 3 wickts.

 

[Spoobir]

 

[timmy94]

Great innings by Chanderpaul! Plenty of twos there have helped Windies quite a bit.

 

[hedger_14]

"Well I just imagined the ball was a pork pie falling to the ground and my instincts took over."

Hilarious. Ryder is a funny bloke

Another good update there. Hope to see New Zealand come back on top on Day 2. Ryder for a century

 

[qpeedore]

Another amazing update. The newspaper bulletin is well done but if I had one thing to suggest you improve on, it's the the picture of Ryder's catch isn't the best. Could be how you formatted it to look like newsprint but it lost a good deal of quality there.

 

[Dutch]

All round very good presenation and excellent reading. Might even make me fire up Ashes 09 again. Do you use any patches or anything?

 

[Spoobir]

Another amazing update. The newspaper bulletin is well done but if I had one thing to suggest you improve on, it's the the picture of Ryder's catch isn't the best. Could be how you formatted it to look like newsprint but it lost a good deal of quality there.

Yeah it bugged me as well but I couldn't manage to get it looking decent, the original screencap was really small so it lost a load of quality when I blew it up and then as you say the "newspaper" editing just made it look worse. I might go back to using actual photographs for the newspaper sections as they look alot better.

All round very good presenation and excellent reading. Might even make me fire up Ashes 09 again. Do you use any patches or anything?

I have the beta 2 patch and a "hardcore" patch that removes the batting timing meter and radar. That's why I'm so bad at hitting boundaries.

 

[qpeedore]

My suggestion is to use the colour screenshot, half tone it, blur it a little and then add a final newsprint overlay to it, but not one that is so harsh as the one you use.

 

[riz7khan12]

and a "hardcore" patch that removes the batting timing meter and radar.

you should remove the bowling cursor aswell which will make it more realistic.

 

[Roofrom50]

you should remove the bowling cursor aswell which will make it more realistic.

Haha, then the batsman would have no hope to play any shots ;s, i wouldn't be able to do that lol