Ross Taylor - You beauty

Ross Taylor enters
1.4	Malinga to Taylor, no run, What was that? Waqar Younis in disguise? Full ball at 142kph and Taylor is squared up completely. Ball is full and beats the outside edge all ends up. That was a quick legbreak, Taylor quite bemused
1.5	Malinga to Taylor, no run, Another one, this time it's shorter in length and Taylor on the back foot but he can't get anywhere close as the ball pitches on middle and moves away viciously. Cracking ball
1.6	Malinga to Taylor, no run, And again ... Malinga bwoling some magic balls here but Taylor playing inside the line. Suddenly the overcast conditions helping swing and seam. New Zealand facing a big total and a lethal new-ball pairing

5.1	Malinga to Taylor, no run, And the jaffas continue. Taylor can only smile, Malinga returns the smile too. Full ball, pacy, swinging, seaming away. Taylor can't even think of putting bat into that. Mohammad Asif, Glenn McGrath are you watching?
5.2	Malinga to Taylor, 1 run, short of a length and seaming away again, Taylor gets an outside edge past second slip for a single
5.3	Malinga to Fulton, no run, full ball, batsman pokes tentatively, can't get to it. This is quite an unplayable spell from Malinga. Strange he's just had one wicket. He's probably delivered close to ten scorchers
5.4	Malinga to Fulton, no run, short of a length on off, patted back to the bowler. One of the few that managed to find the middle of the bat
5.5	Malinga to Fulton, 1 run, glided away to third man for a single, short of a length again. The issue is how often does one go on the back foot, considering the dangerous yorker that he possesses? Don't bet against it anytime soon.
5.6	Malinga to Taylor, no run, This is so regular that it's getting boring. Squared him up yet again and Taylor plays inside the line yet again, only to see the ball zoom past his outside edge

7.1	Malinga to Taylor, no run, Malinga oh Malinga, what does he need to do to get a wicket? Short of a length, outside off, it's muggy overhead and Taylor pushes in a circumspect fashion. Can't get an edge, can't get the middle.
7.2	Malinga to Taylor, no run, beaten again, he seems to have no clue there. The good thing here is that Taylor is playing inside the line every time. This one leaves him just a shade and the keeper and slips can only moan in frustration.
7.3	Malinga to Taylor, no run, Another positive: Taylor keeps getting beaten and smiling like a kid at a chocolate factory. Drives but is beaten this time, again to the one that leaves him. Malinga continues to smile at the other end
7.4	Malinga to Taylor, no run, Slower ball this time and Taylor it seems has decided to take him on, way down the track and is beaten again. Whatever he tries, he's just not putting bat to ball. When it's not your day ...
7.5	Malinga to Taylor, no run, Now this is getting so unbearable, Malinga is not only continuing to turn out cracking deliveries that are beating the outside edge but also managing an impish smile. Short of a length, Taylor pushes, beaten.
7.6	Malinga to Taylor, no run, Celebration time! Taylor has middled a ball. Short of a length and finally, after what seemed an age, has got the ball on the meat of the bat

Applause all around and a raised bat greet that defensive shot.

Hurrah!!!!