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Bank 108.50 Todays game is a difficult one to weigh up for several reasons. Firstly the pitch, hard and with grass according to the quotes from yesterday so bounce ???, no previous international games at the ground so no history, NZ did bowl out SL 'A' for 91 there on a previous visit (after scoring 276) who is to say how strong that side was, the only test at the ground resulted in a washout but WI batted for 103 overs to get 303 .... not an immediately fast scoring gorund then ?? (and the spinners did a lot of the bowling which is to be expected). Secondly, only 2 NZ batsmen (Guptill and McCullum) have batted for any length of time in the WC so far (Vettori & N McCullum did get a decent knock against the Aussies but if it gets down to them quickly then Pakistan will be the favourites)...