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00:19Well, glorious, isn't it?
00:21Absolutely glorious here in Stormont and Belfast.
00:24It's much more like the Costa del Sol than Northern Ireland right now.
00:29For Ireland, well, somewhat ravaged by injury.
00:32Five injuries overall, but an opportunity for three young men
00:36who've all taken different paths to a first Test match cap.
00:40Also a bit of confirmation from the Irish backroom staff
00:43that Curtis Camphre will not be bowling.
00:45So I think that's why Matthew Humphreys has missed out.
00:48Maybe the big surprise for Ireland, no Craig Young back.
00:51We're all set for play.
00:52Mark Adair, the most experienced of the Irish attack, will take the new ball.
00:56Let's go.
00:59And the first runs come from the very first delivery.
01:02Just a tickle around the corner.
01:04Exactly where any batter would like it to get things going.
01:08It's to bowl first.
01:11Oh, got him.
01:12And just like that, Adair strikes.
01:16Off the money, the first delivery.
01:18The second one couldn't have been any better.
01:20He adjusted his line, slightly adjusted his length,
01:23and it's absolutely perfect, the outside of the top of off.
01:30This one edged through that slipcourt and going to race away
01:33for the first runs off the bats.
01:35An action-packed first over.
01:36It's eight for one.
01:37Glad to see him there.
01:39There are players missing, but he's one that's back in.
01:43Glorious drive.
01:45The perfect full face of the bats has been shown by Devin Conway in that.
01:52Right on the money, and that's a trademark Williamson stroke.
01:55Just opening the face.
01:57You might think a little fortuitous.
01:59A number of different preparation points.
02:02One thing remains consistent and constant,
02:05and that is the class of Cain Williamson.
02:07Yes, it's a leg-stumper folly, but put away in real style.
02:11I think they're Irish.
02:16And taken.
02:17Adair has his second, but Liam McCarthy,
02:20on his test-match debut, finds two.
02:23You sensed it was coming.
02:26The in-swinger, and it was a flourish,
02:28but have a look at that.
02:30Two is left.
02:30Fourth over.
02:34Just, as I say, 23 deliveries,
02:37with not many runs coming.
02:38Ravindra gets off the mark in real style.
02:44That's a glorious shot.
02:46Straight down the ground,
02:47and four runs to Ravindra.
02:53Oh, the first time we see a lusty blow,
02:56and it's very lusty indeed.
02:58Six runs to Ratchin Ravindra,
03:01saw it early, just that bit of effort.
03:03He picks up the ball so quick.
03:33So, Mays will get things going after the drinks break,
03:34though Liam McCarthy is a fine fielder.
03:40Straight again from Ravindra.
03:42That'll be four all the way.
03:46Top itch, that'll go away.
03:51And that is the type of delivery and result that a bowler won't mind seeing,
03:58even though it's gone for four.
04:0020 overs done, New Zealand, 79 for two.
04:03A member of this team for New Zealand.
04:07Oh, that's a good shout.
04:08That's a good shout, and it's given.
04:09Kane Williamson.
04:11Have a look at this front foot.
04:13Just pushes it towards off stump.
04:15That's hitting middle and leg.
04:19Takes the edge, and that's gone.
04:22Darryl Mitchell lasts only two deliveries.
04:24Mark Adair has three.
04:25And Ireland will feel very, very firmly in control early.
04:33Lovely bit of timing.
04:35Just dropped the bat on the ball.
04:37We know this outfield is really fast here.
04:42That was still.
04:44It was hit beautifully over the boundary rope.
04:53Straight at the pads.
04:55A bit of excitement from behind.
04:57Lovely lunch break.
05:00After winning the toss in Bowling First Island.
05:35The ball straight after lunch.
05:40He's driven.
05:41And then through the offside.
05:42Beats the attempted dive of Tom Mays.
05:48Edged away and pierces the gap between the slip and gully.
05:53And will race to the rope.
05:54An expensive over coming back after lunch for Mark Adair.
05:58This was nicely bowled, though.
06:00There appears now to be a real vision for that to start to come into place over the coming years.
06:06This is latched onto by Ravindra.
06:09What a glorious way to bring up your 50.
06:12He is pummeled that into the deep.
06:16And it's going to soar all the way for six.
06:18It's come off 87 deliveries for Rachan Ravindra.
06:23He's as stylish as there really is around the world game.
06:26Rest of his career.
06:30Oh, shot.
06:32That's where everybody in the ground stands up and applauds.
06:36Glorious, sounded wonderful off the bat.
06:39Races to the rope.
06:44Lovely shot.
06:45A little bit wide, but from Wilson.
06:48Evens at lunchtime.
06:52Worked away.
06:53It's racing away.
06:54But there's, oh, just as I was about to say, there's cover outs on the fence.
06:58But that time with intent.
07:06Well.
07:08Another.
07:09It's just gone right through.
07:11And that's the 150 up.
07:13Bowlet.
07:15This one's going.
07:17And that's six all the way.
07:21Close at second slip.
07:25Now there's an error in line.
07:27And put away by Blundell.
07:31Reverse swept very effectively.
07:34That will get Blundell to 48.
07:41And one of the shots of the day belongs to Ravindra.
07:47As a reverse sweep comes out, goes very fine and will raise to the rope.
07:55That's perfectly pierced the gap.
07:57A lovely flourish from Blundell.
07:59It was overpitched by McBride.
08:00But very impressive from Tom Blundell.
08:05There is a long on out.
08:07But he's not going to be able to cut it off.
08:08As that one's powered down the ground.
08:15Goes to the reverse sweep again.
08:16As McBride has changed the angle to come around the wicket.
08:19There is a fielder at deep point.
08:20But he's not going to be able to get there.
08:27And this one is going to go away.
08:30So to the boundary for four.
08:34Blundell moves into the 70s.
08:36New Zealand 207 for four.
08:42Goes to that pull shot again.
08:44Slightly miscued.
08:44A little high on the bats.
08:45But it might still race away to four.
08:47For four indeed does.
08:50So Ravindra very quickly into the shot.
09:02As that comes off.
09:04The toe end is going to race to the rope.
09:05And Ravindra moves into the 90s.
09:08Nearly.
09:10The track this time and guided away on a beautiful adjustment from Blundell.
09:19And there it is.
09:23It's a three-figure score for Ratchin Ravindra.
09:26And innings of grit, of grace, and of glorious stroke play at times as well.
09:34Grits.
09:40That will work its way to the boundary very nicely.
09:43And Blundell into the 90s.
09:58And that's just punched beautifully.
10:01Race away for four.
10:03Ravindra goes to 111.
10:05New Zealand 261 for four after 72.
10:16That will be it.
10:19Plays it finely.
10:21And Tom Blundell goes to three figures.
10:25A man who hasn't scored a century since December 2024.
10:30Scores his 600 in Test Match Cricket.
10:35And is very warmly applauded by all those in the New Zealand dugout.
10:40And indeed, all those around the ground.
10:43And well, in the search for wickets.
10:47We'll turn to the part-time off-breaks of Harry Tector, who is immediately.
10:56Almost an action replay.
10:57Better delivery this time, but the result will be the same.
11:00Ireland is starting to look a little ragged.
11:03As the Stormont Sun pounds down upon them.
11:10Helped away.
11:10Now, there is a fielder out there.
11:12Going to have to make good ground.
11:13And doesn't end up getting anything on it.
11:18Well, this has been given the kitchen sink.
11:21Going to go many a mile.
11:23Four consecutive boundaries to greet the beginning of Harry Tector's spell.
11:32Beautiful use of the feet from Ratchin Ravindra.
11:34He is such an elegant batter.
11:37And it's another maximum.
11:39He's added real power to his game in recent years.
11:41With more and more of a focus on the T20.
11:46As Tector's going to continue.
11:50And buys that wicket.
11:52And the exhibition is going to end.
11:59Well, he might just accost himself four runs.
12:04It's maybe the most harsh of rules.
12:07It's a fantastic piece of fielding off his own bowling.
12:09Any good fast bowler is always going to shy at the stumps.
12:14That's one that finds the edge.
12:16It's thickish.
12:17It's running away.
12:19And it'll hit the boundary rope.
12:21And register another four for debutant Foxcroft.
12:29That's glorious from Foxcroft.
12:33Full face of the bats.
12:38A little shorter.
12:42And that'll be the 50 partnership.
12:45Foxcroft.
12:51And as it's played out into the offside.
12:55Tucker just steps forward.
12:57Bails off.
12:58That is stumps on day one.
13:00Of the only Faltre Solar test.
13:02Between Ireland and New Zealand.
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13:07Well, hello and welcome to day two action.
13:10Of the Faltre Solar Ireland versus New Zealand test match.
13:13Powered by Sig Energy.
13:14We're live from the ward at Stormont in Belfast.
13:17An opportunity to enjoy some of the finest test cricket.
13:23And we've got some of the cricket Ireland smash it and its wickets kids guiding the players out as always.
13:31Lovely moment for them.
13:33Ireland get into the huddle.
13:33No doubt some tired bodies there.
13:35Remembering four day test match cricket.
13:37All set for the second day of this test match.
13:40Let's play.
13:41It'll be Tom Mays to start with.
13:43And we don't have any permanent stadia yet.
13:46We've got these wonderful club grounds.
13:50This one's edged away in between the gap.
13:52How many runs have gone through there, Katie?
13:54It'll be four more.
14:00Real misfortune.
14:02Mays has caused a lot of problems this morning.
14:04And this one's come off the thigh pad again, I think.
14:07Just still shows there's that assistance in the surface.
14:10I wonder if it's hit maybe one of those heirline cracks that we've talked about.
14:16Be very surprised now.
14:18I'm sure we'll see Blundell use his feet here and come down at the bowler.
14:24Spot on.
14:26Didn't quite connect, but he's got enough on it to send it to the boundary.
14:30Yeah, just a little shuffle down the wicket here from Blundell.
14:33We saw this yesterday when Mark Adair had the second new ball.
14:36And he came down the wicket a couple of times.
14:38And Adair just nipped it back.
14:49And there's the urgency again.
14:51Very positive against Liam McCarthy.
14:55And another six.
14:58A little bit leg side as well.
14:59Well, creating the room for his hands to come through and swat it over long on.
15:05A shot you generally see in a T20 or a lot of innings of a 50 over game.
15:18Another shot expertly squeezed away.
15:20I think it's going to win the chase to the rope.
15:22It does indeed.
15:23So 10 off the first two deliveries.
15:25Played some explicit strokes and some very aggressive stroke play.
15:31Great timing again.
15:34So again, that little shuffle leg side and Liam McCarthy was trying to slip in the Yorker, but...
15:44Unorthodox.
15:48But effective.
15:50The four to end the 108th over.
15:54Deep mid-wicket in place.
15:56I'm going to take him on.
15:58Long on is out there.
15:59He'll watch it go over his head.
16:00Really good strike.
16:02Dancing feet from Foxcroft.
16:03There's the intent.
16:05We're expecting someone that's very good using his feet.
16:08Also on the sweep.
16:09Dean Foxcroft.
16:10He was not...
16:11He was a nearly not man for New Zealand.
16:19That's a really good stroke.
16:20That's one of the shots of the entire test match, in fact.
16:23Yeah, it is.
16:24Great use of the feet.
16:25Just gave himself some angle on that leg side and some space to work through the ball.
16:31Yeah, he was nearly not going to come back to New Zealand, but decided that he would.
16:35I also know that a test victory is also something that doesn't come that often.
16:42Over the head of Tom Mays.
16:45One of the tallest members of this 11.
16:47It'll naturally come as well if they keep batting like this.
16:51Good shot.
16:52I think we hadn't really seen this in the first hour or so of them actually looking to bat aggressively
16:57to push that score on.
16:59That was probably the point that you...
17:03This is hammered, but there's a fielder out there who puts it down.
17:07Matthew Humphreys, the sub fielder.
17:09And you have to question why wasn't he on the rope.
17:13And ends up just getting one hand on it and it goes down.
17:17It sounded softer off the bat, didn't it?
17:20He was a significant amount in.
17:23I think that...
17:28This is launched out towards Humphreys, settles underneath it and holds on.
17:34Wilson has a test ticket to his name.
17:36So richly deserved.
17:38He's been one of the best bowlers throughout the last day and a bit.
17:42It'll be a special moment for him.
17:47Glorious shot.
17:50The mid-off is up straight over the head of Tom Mays.
17:54Just over 100 kilometers up from Dunedin.
17:57But my word, he can play some very fine strokes.
18:07And that is one he didn't need to move for.
18:10Knew it was headed to the boundary for the second time in the over.
18:14Well, Nathan Smith has taken very little time to settle into his innings.
18:18A couple of boundaries in the over, including this one.
18:20Last ball of the previous over.
18:22Myrubin Wilson dropped a little short.
18:26This might go to the boundary.
18:28And does.
18:34LBW decision is on the cards, potentially.
18:39They scramble through.
18:43So the link-by was given by...
18:48Foxcroft.
18:49Trying to go for the big shot.
18:51Kept slightly low.
18:52Long way out.
18:52There was an appeal for the LBW.
18:55And then the run-out opportunity.
18:57Now, if that hits the stumps, that'll be out.
19:09Well, the decision is red light.
19:13That means Nathan Smith.
19:20Chips here.
19:22And Reuben Wilson will dismiss Dean Foxcroft for 98 on debut.
19:26Going for the century.
19:28Going for the century.
19:35Good catch by Reuben Wilson.
19:37Andy McBrien just slowed it up there as Foxcroft was looking for the sweep shot.
19:41And good anticipation by Wilson and catches it above his head.
19:46But ends the superb innings from Dean Foxcroft.
19:5398 on debut.
19:55Unfortunately, falling.
19:57That means to avoid a potential follow-on.
20:02As New Zealand have ended up 490 for 8 declared.
20:07Go out for what should be a very nervy period of probably 6.
20:18And the crease well.
20:22Oh, beauty.
20:23Raps on the back part and given.
20:26Just watch where he releases this.
20:27Nathan Smith just a slight jump away of the crease.
20:31Hit the back leg.
20:32Looking to play square.
20:33Maybe the angle of that run-in.
20:35I mean, he felt like it was going further down leg side.
20:38Look at the amount of swing and the shape that was lost on that.
20:41Perfect start for New Zealand.
20:47Edged and taken.
20:48It's two in the over.
20:49A double wicket maiden for Smith to start with.
20:52A simple catch held in the slipcourt.
20:54And Ireland in tatters to start with.
20:57Yeah, even wider.
20:58That angle in.
21:01Tom Latham taking that catch.
21:03Just see their extra bounce.
21:04But the length control.
21:05Well, Nathan Smith, all that over had brought the bettors forward.
21:09Michael Ray, he was another one that debuted last year.
21:14That'll be four.
21:16It's an area where New Zealand profited from significantly in the first innings.
21:20And the first boundary, probably two more overs, I suspect, will get before the lunch break.
21:25Six minutes to go.
21:28And that's nicely put away.
21:29It's the first stroke of real confidence from Ireland in their batting efforts.
21:33And it goes to the captain, Andrew Balbirni.
21:36A little bit of width on offer.
21:38And very much in control.
21:40Cutting it away for four.
21:42It's good on those shorter deliveries, isn't it?
21:44Short and wide.
21:44First time we've really seen Nathan Smith lose his length.
21:47He just held his balance beautifully at the crease.
21:50Great shot.
21:50Would have felt good.
21:55Good leave from Tector.
21:57And it means Ireland will get to that lunch break without too much further damage.
22:03Alex Worf, New Zealand, will be delighted with their position as we end the fourth session with Ireland at 20
22:11for two.
22:12Something to grow, something to build on.
22:15From their captain, Andrew Balbirni.
22:17And it's going to be Smith with the ball.
22:22Who starts to Andrew Balbirni.
22:28That'll be four.
22:31Given his buys, it's missed everything.
22:33I thought it might have been maybe just a flick of the pad.
22:35But Rod Tucker doesn't feel as though four freebies.
22:38Yeah, Smith just pushing this in towards Andrew Balbirni.
22:42Trying to target the pad.
22:43Looks like it hit the pad.
22:48Got him straight through.
22:51And having nearly been cleaned up by the previous delivery that just missed on height.
22:58Smith strikes again.
22:59That wide of the crease angle.
23:02Looks like a bit of a wobble seam.
23:04And it's just decked back in with the angle that Smith produces from bowling wide degrees.
23:10A great length.
23:11Dragging the batsman forward.
23:16As folks continues to techter.
23:19It's a long half volley really that techter guides into the offside and gets all the way to the rope.
23:26Getting enough contact on the ball.
23:29Folks looking for that full length and Harry Techter was well matched to that and just trickled over the ropes
23:37for four runs.
23:37That'll give Harry Techter some confidence.
23:41Puts New Zealand right on top.
23:47Edge just shy.
23:49And it's going to burst through the slipcourt and play.
23:53You know, he says he learned a lot from watching Kane Williamson.
23:57With those soft hands and just he looked like he wanted to push at it but just held the hands
24:03back a little bit and took the bottom hand off the bat.
24:10Oh, now this wraps him on the pad.
24:12Did it strike him in line?
24:13Yes, it did.
24:14Full and straight.
24:15Attacking the stumps.
24:16Nathan Smith.
24:20Oh, it's close.
24:22Is that outside the line?
24:24A long way down.
24:30Oh, what a beauty.
24:32And Smith has five inside five overs.
24:36Five down inside nine overs.
24:39Carving copy.
24:41Very similar to Andrew Balberny.
24:43Just that scramble seam nipping back in again.
24:48Stroke, it's the way he plays.
24:51This will race to the rope.
24:53The signal is going to be interesting again here.
24:55This time it's come off.
25:00Oh, that's hooped back in.
25:01Has it done too much?
25:02No.
25:03And even Harry Tector has to trudge back.
25:09Big in-swing from Fuchs.
25:12Question, is it going down leg?
25:19Mark Adair plays the most glorious on-drive you can imagine?
25:23It's taken a significant shuffle outside the off stump.
25:27Something that not many Irish batters have done thus far.
25:29Four runs.
25:31Yeah, it's a beautiful shot.
25:34Something you see in a T20 potentially with Mark Adair.
25:38But again, presenting the full face of the bat, placid and easier to bat on.
25:45Short, wide and cut away.
25:48Andy McBride gets into his work with a first boundary.
25:53Andy McBride is not going to miss out.
25:56But another man who likes to score quickly.
25:59Takes the game on.
26:00Brings up the 50 for Ireland.
26:03Short and wide and cut behind.
26:06Backward point for four.
26:13Lovely shot.
26:14McBride.
26:15A little power behind it.
26:16Maybe a hand on the ball.
26:17Slowing it down slightly.
26:18Will it get to the rope?
26:20Only just.
26:22Andy McBride moves into double figures.
26:24The kind of player who plays with an incredible amount of resistance, Andy McBride.
26:29He's among the most mentally strong of the Ireland players.
26:36He's a second generation player, isn't he?
26:43Oh, asking a great deal of Blundell.
26:46That's going to roll away.
26:54Run on the money.
26:56First up for Tickner.
26:58Coached by Eric Milan, who's the coach of Ireland's side.
27:10That's gloriously played.
27:12Andy McBride.
27:20Oh, that's firmly out of the middle of the bat.
27:22It'll race away for four.
27:24McBride with another boundary.
27:25Moves to 19.
27:28Very good off the back foot.
27:30Just nice basic technique.
27:33Shows a full face of the bat.
27:36Maybe just that pace down a little bit as he's getting into his ninth over here, Nathan Smith.
27:45Oh, that was a little bit of fortune for Mark Adair.
27:51But maybe the ball didn't get up quite as much as he would have liked.
27:54He deliberately does this.
27:55Maybe.
27:57Opens the face of the bat.
27:59He tried to do it in the previous over.
28:06Where the future is in terms of cricket.
28:10As McBride guides us away in front of points in full control.
28:15That's a good stroke.
28:16When the Donamana man, we're meeting the ball.
28:19As a consequence, you're bringing more dismissals.
28:22As McBride stands and delivers.
28:25A square drive of the highest quality.
28:29Let the ball come right under his eyes.
28:33Great timing.
28:34So still on contact.
28:41Driven on the up.
28:44Shot to the highest quality for Mark Adair.
28:47And it will go all the way for four.
28:49Feels like the zip has gone out of the ball here at the moment.
28:52And look at that.
28:54You wouldn't see that in the MCC textbook.
28:56But again, let the ball come to him and just elegantly stroked it through the covers.
29:03Great timer of the ball, Mark Adair.
29:08Long leavers come out.
29:10And talk about T20 cricket.
29:12There's a shade of T20 in that from Mark Adair.
29:15These two are rescuing Ireland yet again.
29:19Yeah, just over-pitched.
29:21Mark Adair sees that and just opens that front leg and just clubs it down over the top.
29:30And he refers to it as the golden generation of Irish cricket.
29:35McBride pulls powerfully.
29:38Ireland continue to attack here.
29:40Almost going blow for blow right now.
29:45Yeah, two very uncomplicated players.
29:49Keep it very simple.
29:51They see the ball.
29:52They try and hit it.
29:54This looks like a mini Kevin O'Brien.
29:58Shot.
29:59There's the man who was out there for it.
30:00He was placed for that shot.
30:02The delivery came in.
30:04McBride escapes.
30:05One bounce, four.
30:07He's quite a fair way deep on that boundary rope.
30:10Just slightly hanging back.
30:12Hands underneath the bounce.
30:14Very, very close.
30:22Shot.
30:23Gets away from the fielder.
30:27Close in on 126 for six.
30:42Lovely stroke.
30:43Glorious again.
30:45Through the offside.
30:47Brilliantly from McBride.
30:48He goes to 48.
30:51Full face of the bat.
30:53Just timed it through the gap.
30:56Nice technique.
30:57Does he remind you a bit of Justin Langer?
31:07End of 32.
31:09139 for six.
31:11We are waiting for the decision.
31:13Yes, indeed.
31:14OK.
31:14The bells come off.
31:17That will be T.
31:19T on day two.
31:20Ireland in reply to New Zealand's 490 for eight.
31:24Declared are 139 for six.
31:27Well, good afternoon and welcome back to Stormont here in Belfast in Northern Ireland for this.
31:32The first and only test between Ireland and New Zealand.
31:36Day two of it.
31:37And we're all set for the third and final session.
31:40Falling to 38 for six.
31:42They've had their reliable combination of Andrew McBride and Mark Adair.
31:47Nathan Smith is going to get us going straight after the tea break.
31:50Here we go.
31:53Normal service resumed for Donovan as Andrew McBride who clips him away.
31:58What's the longest corner of the ground?
32:00And he's going to get there.
32:01Teases the fielder beautifully.
32:04But a good start from Andy McBride as I welcome Katie Martin.
32:08Evening, Lenny.
32:10Evening, everybody.
32:11Yeah, fantastic.
32:12Good piece of timing.
32:12I mean, he's just played the ball so late, hasn't he?
32:18Over the last period of time.
32:22Oh, now.
32:23What's this come off?
32:24Looks like bats.
32:25And it's going to be the end of a very productive partnership.
32:28The short ball tactic works.
32:30And Smith.
32:31That's how he's able to combat that.
32:33That is a nasty delivery.
32:35It's hit him underneath the armpits.
32:37It's one of the most uncomfortable places for the ball to be.
32:41First class 50 to his name.
32:46And he's going to start by manufacturing one down to the rope off his pad.
32:52So four leg buys.
32:53Might have thought he was in play here.
32:55He's got well across his stumps.
32:57Yeah, just that angle.
32:58Down leg side.
33:01Even if it was 50-50, it was probably.
33:07Oh, that's not what you want to do, ideally.
33:11Tom Mays straight to the fielder.
33:17Right over the heads of the infielders.
33:22Very nicely held on to.
33:26Tom Latham at square leg.
33:27And a deep square leg on the boundary.
33:32Takes it straight off the stumps.
33:34And sends it to the rope.
33:41Lovely proactive.
33:42So Mandy McBride backing away, like Tom Blundell did quite a lot in his innings.
33:48Slashing it over point.
33:51Ribcage or armpit and Blundell's...
33:58He's running on the money as well in terms of where he'd like it positioned.
34:03Into the 70s.
34:06Yeah, well controlled by McBride.
34:07I think the difference here, Andy McBride is...
34:14Catches the outside edge.
34:15And taken in the slips.
34:17Kane Williamson with a catch.
34:18And Ben Sears.
34:21Good catch by Kane Williamson.
34:24Very good catch.
34:25Went sharply.
34:26Slashed hard by Liam McCarty.
34:31Oh, that is not the kindest of deliveries.
34:37Didn't see the signal from the umpire.
34:40Ruben Wilson, yes, it seems, is departing here.
34:44So, umpire has confirmed Ireland all out for 179.
34:52Welcome back to Stormonts.
34:53After, well, a dramatic end to the first innings.
34:57Young Ruben Wilson received a rip snorter of a delivery.
35:00Quick turnaround for the New Zealand bowlers.
35:03I guess there were questions of whether their top order wanted a bit more time out in the middle.
35:07Kane Williamson, Devon Conway, Tom Latham.
35:10You in any way surprised at New Zealand?
35:13And their decision to enforce the follow-on.
35:16Here we go.
35:17Ireland must follow-on.
35:19It's a bit more like it for Stephen Doherty.
35:22He will breathe a very heavy sigh of relief.
35:25He gets off the pair.
35:27Just a loosener from Nathan Smith to start.
35:29Maybe getting adjusted to having the new ball in hand again.
35:32Seeing how much swing there is.
35:34That has come off for the middle of the bat.
35:36I've got no doubt some of these top order batters have been spending the last hour or so in the
35:40nets.
35:40Just trying to get some batting practice in.
35:44Admission.
35:45They kind of hung on for that.
35:49That is punched through the leg side.
35:52Really powerfully.
35:53It is with the shape of the movement through the air.
35:57But Balberny will...
35:58Just watch the positions he gets into here.
36:00Bang.
36:01Just allows the ball to come on to him.
36:03He's playing a lot tighter in his technique.
36:06You talk about the pinnacle of players.
36:09And I guess the question then is why is Test match the pinnacle?
36:13I've had a pair on Test match debut.
36:16That will be edged in between the leg gully and the keeper for four.
36:22I do think this is a tactic for New Zealand.
36:25He just tends to get inside the line.
36:28It's something that...
36:33A little fortunate this time.
36:35I don't think he's tried necessarily to hit this in the air.
36:39It will be the third boundary of the over.
36:43Oh, squares him up.
36:45And Ireland, while living very fortuitously across the course of the last three deliveries.
36:50Just see a clear focus of being able to play straight.
36:53Look at that back coming across the line of the ball.
36:56And no, Nathan Smith, because he can swing the ball when he is looking.
37:02The runs are flowing here.
37:05Just 14 deliveries in the second innings.
37:07And it's another boundary.
37:10Might have learned from the big partnership that we saw between Adear and McBride.
37:15Yeah, just probably a little bit loose here, Nathan Smith.
37:24Again, a bit fortuitous.
37:26Very much in the air.
37:27And that square leg is in there because of that movement.
37:29But the boundaries continue to flow here.
37:32It seemed like he was in control as much as he could on that.
37:36Yeah, just hard hands at the ball.
37:37That could have got anywhere in the end.
37:39We've seen a couple of those.
37:46Nicely punched down the ground.
37:47Just a bit too full.
37:49Sears getting greedy after that previous delivery.
37:51And Dhani responds with a straight drive for four.
37:55I think those sort of deliveries that are outside off stump down that leg side.
37:59Yeah, just outside off stump.
38:04He's worked a little bit on his technical changes to help him in red ball cricket
38:08about being a little bit more tighter.
38:12And got him.
38:15Andy Balberny tickles one behind off Tickner.
38:19And he's caught behind 14 with a couple of glorious strokes early in his innings.
38:27And Andrew Balberny.
38:32Short ball from Tickner.
38:34Oh, that's called wide.
38:41Well, that is kept low.
38:44And that's going to be some fortunate runs.
38:49Alluded to earlier on in the picture board.
38:51That is just rolled along the ground.
38:55Let me see from side on.
38:57Whoa.
38:59Tickner coming from such a height.
39:01You're expecting that to bounce.
39:06Takes the outside edge.
39:08Another catch.
39:12Just try to work this through square leg.
39:16Again.
39:17Yeah.
39:17His head getting outside the line of the ball.
39:19I feel falling a little bit.
39:21Would have been much better off presenting the full face of the bat
39:24and trying to hit that through mid on.
39:26Head back into the ball.
39:27Get that body weight back into the shot.
39:33Worked away very nicely.
39:35Square of the wicket.
39:36Runs away for another boundary.
39:39Four.
39:39Strong square of the wicket.
39:43Nice weight transfer and just punching it past point.
39:48Outfield still fairly fast.
39:51Races away for four.
39:52Good balance from Stephen Doheny.
40:03Touches the outside edge.
40:04But Mays will get his first runs.
40:07Of this innings.
40:09When Mays held out a deep forward square leg.
40:13This time a little bit fuller.
40:15Through the vacant gully area.
40:22And the end of the over.
40:24Matches for the umpires.
40:26It's not quite ticked on over to seven.
40:29The end of 16.
40:31Ireland 65 for two.
40:40So, Alex Wharf and Rod Tucker have decided that is stumps on day two of this four-day test.
40:47The only falter solar Ireland versus New Zealand test match.
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40:52I didn't see it.
40:53But it's stumps on day two.
40:55Ireland following on a 65 for two.
40:58They still trail by 246.
41:04Really good start from Smith.
41:06It's a maiden for him.
41:07Ireland are still 65 for two.
41:12Good luck in the stroke.
41:14And it will be the first boundary of day three.
41:16Belongs to Stephen Doheny.
41:18He moves into the 40s in test cricket for the second time.
41:23Edged and taken.
41:25You felt it was coming.
41:27And Nathan Smith has his seventh of the match.
41:30And the night watchman, Mays, has to go.
41:32Keep the scoreboard ticking over.
41:36This one palmed away.
41:38And the wicket falls.
41:40Harry Tector.
41:43Just parries one into the slipcord.
41:45And this parts for two.
41:47Folks.
41:50Shot.
41:51Absolutely wonderful.
41:52He got plenty behind that.
41:54Curtis Comfort.
41:55And gets off a pair magnificently.
41:57Folks may be attached straight ahead.
42:01Pulled and pulled for four.
42:04Which means it'll be 50 for the first time in test cricket for the 27-year-old from North County,
42:10Dublin.
42:12Special moment for the young man.
42:18Lovely shot.
42:21Glorious shot.
42:22Nork and Tucker.
42:23And he'll have his second boundary.
42:29Up.
42:30And taken.
42:32As Devin Conway with the sharpest of reactions.
42:36Gets under one.
42:37And Doheny.
42:42Guided away.
42:43By Tucker.
42:45Full control.
42:45It's a profitable area in test cricket.
42:51Pulled.
42:51Full control of the pull.
42:53And pulled for four.
42:54Good stroke this one.
42:56Tucker really only plays one way in test cricket.
43:02Three out in the deep in the leg side.
43:04But it's fuller.
43:05And Tucker shows his quality to a fuller delivery.
43:08The beautiful square drive.
43:15And that is going to be one that Tom Blundell will look back at Blair Tickner and say,
43:20really, really, did you really have to ruin my figures for the day?
43:24Four boys, nothing he could do about those.
43:26More runs to Ireland.
43:27130 for five.
43:46Coaching captain.
43:49This one steered away.
43:51The extra bounce from Sears, but extra pace, too.
43:54And McBride will get to double figures.
43:59This is hammered high and handsome.
44:01And it's going to be the first maximum of the second innings.
44:08As Tucker drives stylishly, just leans into that and gets good reward.
44:15It's probably one of the shots of his innings.
44:17Four more to him.
44:21As this is taken, it was short.
44:24It was wide.
44:25And McBride, who usually finds the gap so well, could only pick out the backward point fielder.
44:30And if Kampfer was bowling, he would have played.
44:34And this is cut away behind square.
44:35Races to the rope.
44:37Oh, Lorcan Tucker.
44:42With on offer and Adair, who likes to play his shots, will get off the mark in real style.
44:51Lovely stroke.
44:52Mark Adair.
44:54Down on one knee.
44:55Drives it through the offside.
44:58And it's going to get to the rope as well.
45:00Second boundary for Adair.
45:06Lovely.
45:08Picked the gap.
45:09Not a great deal of power behind it, but some finesse.
45:13You can see that ball.
45:1850 for Lorcan Tucker.
45:21Tucks it away off his hip.
45:25And a half century.
45:26The second of the innings for Ireland.
45:28And the fifth for Lorcan Tucker in test cricket.
45:32The sixth time that he's passed the 50 run mark in test cricket, though.
45:39Sweet up.
45:41And Darryl Mitchell goes back and claims safely.
45:46Tucker goes for 50.
45:52That's lovely from McCarthy.
45:54He's through the infield.
45:58Looks like it's just going to reach.
46:01And indeed.
46:05Slightly upish, but a little more power behind this one.
46:08And that'll reach the rope.
46:10So Lynn McCarthy.
46:15There's his second boundary.
46:19Being able to pierce those two fielders.
46:23Forced to change now as well.
46:25Darryl Mitchell going back into where this particular delivery had gone.
46:28Having that short leg in there means that he doesn't really want to fend it.
46:35Pumped down the ground.
46:36And there's no mid-off in place.
46:37So that'll be four.
46:40All across the Stormont Estate.
46:42As the runs keep coming.
46:43This will be Bize.
46:46I think.
46:48Just waiting for the two umpires to work in tandem.
46:51And indeed the arm extends.
46:53Only fielder in what would be a 30-yard circle is the Manic Gully.
46:57As this goes a long, long way up.
47:00And it looks like a long way back too.
47:02Mark Adair has got this very nearly all the way for six.
47:09This one is sliced away in front of the square on the offside.
47:13There's nobody out there.
47:15And I just wonder, is Adair thinking, can he get three?
47:17McCarthy slipped.
47:18He's got to get back.
47:20And he might just have found himself run out, given on field.
47:24The calamity really.
47:25He slipped on the grass turf.
47:29Yeah, it's a mix-up between the two.
47:34The slip.
47:39Edged away for four.
47:42And Ruben Wilson has his first runs in test cricket.
47:45And does not suffer the ignominy of...
47:52There it is.
47:53Five-wicket haul for Blair Tickner.
47:55Ruben Wilson goes for four.
47:57And Mark Adair is left stranded on 44.
48:00With Curtis Kampfer unable to make his way to the middle.
48:04And that will be Ireland all out.
48:08And New Zealand will claim an innings victory.
48:13An innings.
48:14And the votes that we have gone for four.
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