Monique Devereux, former chief reporter at the Herald and now Christchurch correspondent for Radio New Zealand, is at the Cricket World Cup. She brings nzherald.co.nz regular news and views from the West Indies
KEY POINTS:
There are plenty of glum faces around the National Stadium in Granada
right now.
Daniel Vettori just walked off the pitch, having been dismissed for 5. He followed the same trajectory as Brendon McCullum who just recently
walked off the field and into the players room without so much ofa
glance at his team mates.
It's the most consistent part of the New Zealand teams' game today; the long walk of shame/anger/disappointment back to base.
With two overs left as I write this, the Black Caps are heading for their lowest score of the tournament so far. There are too many 0's and 1's on our scoresheet.
In the players stand, Stephen Fleming looks about as happy as the reporter who arrived here last night from Guyana with no luggage. No insulin. No toothbrush. No sign of anything turning up.
Only the British journalists are smirking. Apparently they told me this would happen.
On the flipside, Scott Styris is on 99. And there is the second innings to come.
We have Shane Bond. There is hope.
In the wider scheme of things, it won't be the end of the world if we drop this match.
Our semi final berth is practically confirmed, so unless we are smothered by both South Africa and Australia, we'll have a shot at making the final.
Maybe it's just too hot here to play good cricket today.
It's certainly too hot to be dressed like the group of nuns in the fanzone. They look too young to be the same group of nuns who followed the All Blacks around South Africa a decade ago. But you never know.
Some fan has brought a Bring Back Buck sign. I haven't seen one of those since…oooh, since we lost to Bangladesh in our warm up game.
But you never know. This is cricket, and anything can happen.
