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Match facts
November 24-28, 2009
Start time 12 pm (23.00 GMT)
Start time 12 pm (23.00 GMT)
New Zealand vs Pakistan
Match scheduled:
Last updated: 24-11-2009 from 23:00 until 07:00
02-11-2009 on 15:59
New Zealand v Pakistan at Dunedin, 1st Test – day 1
Last updated: 24-11-2009 from 23:00 until 07:00
02-11-2009 on 15:59
New Zealand v Pakistan at Dunedin, 1st Test – day 1
Team news
New Zealand will be playing a Test for the first time since Jacob Oram retired from the format and are likely to field a XI comprising six specialist batsmen, a wicketkeeper and four bowlers. Grant Elliott’s knee injury will prevent him from bowling his part-time medium pace and Vettori, who will probably be the only spinner, is likely to bear the majority of the increased workload. The fast-bowling attack is likely to comprise Bond, Daryl Tuffey and Chris Martin, ahead of Iain O’Brien. New Zealand’s batting is also depleted with Jesse Ryder out injured but his absence has given Peter Fulton the opportunity to make a comeback in the middle order.
New Zealand (probable): 1 Tim McIntosh, 2 Martin Guptill, 3 Daniel Flynn, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Peter Fulton, 6 Grant Elliott, 7 Brendon McCullum (wk), 8 Daniel Vettori (capt), 9 Shane Bond, 10 Daryl Tuffey, 11 Chris Martin.
Pakistan are likely to field a batting line-up similar to the one used in the warm-up match in Queenstown. The one change could be Salman Butt being replaced by Shoaib Malik in the middle order. The three-man pace attack is likely to be formed by Umar Gul, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammed Asif, who will be playing his first Test since the ban on him for a positive drugs test ended. It’s a toss up between Danish Kaneria and Saeed Ajmal for the solitary slow bowler’s spot but the offspinner is likely to get the nod.
Pakistan (probable): 1 Khurram Manzoor, 2 Imran Farhat, 3 Fawad Alam, 4 Mohammad Yousuf (capt), 5 Shoaib Malik, 6 Umar Akmal, 7 Kamran Akmal (wk), 8 Umar Gul, 9 Mohammad Asif, 10 Mohammad Aamer, 11 Saeed Ajmal/Danish Kaneria.
Pitch and conditions
New Zealand has never hosted a Test in November and the maximum temperature in Dunedin over the next five days, according to weather.com, is predicted to be 16 degrees (though Monday had a high of 30). There is rain forecast on days two and three and scattered showers on the fifth. The fifth day of the last Test at the University Oval, against West Indies in 2008, was washed out after which questions were raised about the ground’s drainage. The primary challenge for Pakistan, though, will be to adjust quickly to the low temperatures. The Dawn newspaper even reported that the players were unable to stay warm with the kits they had been provided with.
News source from cricinfo.com
