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The Black Caps were working their way to an impressive first-inning total in Sunday’s tea break at Bay Oval, despite losing Kane Williamson and Henry Nicholls in the space of five overs midway through the opening session on the second day. .
Heading into the final session, they were sitting at 388-7 after 144 overs with BJ Watling at 59 and Tim Southee still to score and the predicted rain stayed away at Mount Maunganui.
Nicholls was the first of the set’s hitters to leave, but he shouldn’t have, as he didn’t get the bat against the ball when he played a shot throw and was caught by Shan Masood at Naseem Shah’s bowling alley by 56.
After consulting with Williamson, Nicholls left the park without asking for a check, but replays showed the ball had landed on one forearm, then the other, so he would have been given a break if he had.
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Black Cap Henry Nicholls went up in his fifties on the second morning of the first against Pakistan at Bay Oval, then he was wrong not to review his firing.
He had teamed up 133 with his captain, who brought his twenty-third century test into the first hour of play, but left for 129 four overs after Nicholls, when Haris Sohail expertly caught him in a leg-clamp bowling slide. . Yasir Shah.
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BJ Watling took on the presenter role, progressing to 13 at lunch, then 59 at tea, and looked comfortable in the middle, cutting Naseem by a pair of four-in-one as he began to assert himself, then sweeping Haris by. two. to bring his fifty.
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Black Caps captain Kane Williamson celebrates his 23rd century of testing against Pakistan at Bay Oval.
Mitchell Santner joined him in the first place, on his return to the test lineup after five games away from the side, but he only collected 19 before playing in one that he did not have to leave out and was trapped behind by Mohammad Rizwan.
Kyle Jamieson then hit the fold and made 32 before leaving eight minutes before tea, wonderfully hitting Yasir Shah straight for four, then six on the bench in the long run and establishing a 66 partnership with Watling.
Mohammad Abbas was a curious absentee from the bowling attack for Pakistan for most of the day, surpassing just five overs early on, after conceding just 25 runs of his 21 overs on the first day, but he returned half an hour before tea and claimed. his first wicket when he had Jamieson trapped behind.
Showers and thunderstorms had been forecast for the afternoon in the Bay of Plenty, but as of 3:40 p.m., bad weather had simply made a circuit of the ground, rather than impacting the game.
Williamson was in the middle for all but three balls on the first day, but it took 25 minutes and 14 balls to add to his 94 tally on Sunday, moving Shaheen Shah Afridi to the fine leg for two, then reaching three figures with the 18 ball he faced, when he led Naseem through the blankets for four.
It was his second century in as many innings, hot on the heels of 251 in victory over the West Indies at Seddon Park in Hamilton earlier this month.
When Williamson hit the fold in the first over of innings, the Black Caps were 4-1, and soon slumped to 13-2 in the 11th over, but as their century progressed, they were 239-3, well. on track to dictate procedures after losing the draw and being shipped.
Nicholls was at 42 for the night and pulled off his half century with a drive in the sheets for two from Shaheen, before leaving under unfortunate circumstances.
