Black Caps vs England Series
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@1kiwi I'm dark about our summer
Lots of white ball, overloading on t20
Basically finished by Christmas. Then we're touring Jan and Feb, inbound short again and then we're playing England away in June.
I'm going to lean into domestic cricket I reckon
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Black Caps bowlers got absolutely pumped.
England 236/4
Caps currently 28/2 from 3.
Are leg side wides not a thing anymore?
Seen 2 deliveries sneak down leg side in the last 2 overs which don’t appear to have touched the batter on the way through and they haven’t been called wide…. Interesting to say the least. -
Chapman and Seifert have done well after losing those 2 early wickets, but they’ve really struggled in the last couple of overs.
As I type, Seifert dispatches a beamer over the fence, and promptly returns to the struggle… nicks one to the keeper on the free hit.
87/2 from 9.
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@nzzp said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@1kiwi I'm dark about our summer
Lots of white ball, overloading on t20
Basically finished by Christmas. Then we're touring Jan and Feb, inbound short again and then we're playing England away in June.
I'm going to lean into domestic cricket I reckon
You're forgetting the Windies are turning up here to get pummelled in the test series but I get your point.
Three beat downs of a shit team does not make a Summer of Cricket. Loads of T20s where we forget the results after five minutes apparently does.
I can only hope the team are competitive against England in June ( certainly more so than the last tour there ) but just THREE tests before then against modest opposition isn't ideal preperation.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@nzzp said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@1kiwi I'm dark about our summer
Lots of white ball, overloading on t20
Basically finished by Christmas. Then we're touring Jan and Feb, inbound short again and then we're playing England away in June.
I'm going to lean into domestic cricket I reckon
You're forgetting the Windies are turning up here to get pummelled in the test series but I get your point.
Three beat downs of a shit team does not make a Summer of Cricket. Loads of T20s where we forget the results after five minutes apparently does.
Fuck I got bored last night. Sixes and fours just don't mean anything when they are so frequent - big bats, small boundaries, flat pitches.
Seeing the new batting stances reminds me of baseball. Ironic how the games converge in some areas after so long apart (well, as I understand it - Rounders/Cricket --> baseball/softball)
Given how different T20 is to Tests, is this a chance to administrate these as different sports? Fulltime Test players touring the world, fulltime T20 zooming around. You could watch both sides competing the same day - Tests in the day, then T20 at night.
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@nzzp said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@nzzp said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@1kiwi I'm dark about our summer
Lots of white ball, overloading on t20
Basically finished by Christmas. Then we're touring Jan and Feb, inbound short again and then we're playing England away in June.
I'm going to lean into domestic cricket I reckon
You're forgetting the Windies are turning up here to get pummelled in the test series but I get your point.
Three beat downs of a shit team does not make a Summer of Cricket. Loads of T20s where we forget the results after five minutes apparently does.
Fuck I got bored last night. Sixes and fours just don't mean anything when they are so frequent - big bats, small boundaries, flat pitches.
Seeing the new batting stances reminds me of baseball. Ironic how the games converge in some areas after so long apart (well, as I understand it - Rounders/Cricket --> baseball/softball)
Given how different T20 is to Tests, is this a chance to administrate these as different sports? Fulltime Test players touring the world, fulltime T20 zooming around. You could watch both sides competing the same day - Tests in the day, then T20 at night.
It is literally too much. Sixes used to mean something. Imagine what Viv Richards, Beefy Botham, Gordon Greenidge and our own Lance Cairns would do with todays bats and the smaller boundaries ?
I'd stick my neck out and say the great Sir Viv would average a bit over 60 today.
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So surprising it got rained off last night, the weather has been so settled this week. No way they could have predicted this.
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps vs England Series:
So surprising it got rained off last night, the weather has been so settled this week. No way they could have predicted this.
I went.
Watched 3 balls.
Then after 20 minutes or so and checking the rain radar thought that it's pretty unlikely there would be a game. Unfortunately right.
Sparse crowd. Not sure how many didnt' show up because of the weather - I was in a group but otherwise would probably have not bothered
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@Bovidae said in Black Caps vs England Series:
What were the T&Cs? Surely you get a refund.
Full refund for less than 5 overs
50% for 5-1520i
Less than five (5) overs are completed during the entire Match and no result is recorded for the Match.
More than five (5) but less than fifteen (15) overs are completed during the entire Match and no result is recorded for the Match.
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Forecast actually looks OK today I think. Looking forward to the ODIs more than I did the T20s, see we have Kane back too which adds to the spectacle.
