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[mariner4life]

Delicious.

Smacked by 400 runs to lose 0-2 at home.

Suffer in your jocks.

[MN5]

2-0 is good but 3-0 is better. Black Caps did so well.

Considering Cricket is their number one sport, well, more of an obsession its worth pointing out India suck at sport in general.

[Bovidae]

That was a great catch to get the final wicket. It helps that Jansen is so fuckin' tall.

[OomPB]

Record loss for India at home. They discovered Marco Jansen at Potch, now their chief destroyer.

[mariner4life]

late career Virat Kohli ramming home that he is the undisputed best ODI batsman of all time.

ODI hundred number 53, averaging 58 after 307 matches is fucking insane. To put that in perspective, there are only 3 guys that have batted over 200 times in ODI cricket to average 50+, Dhoni at 50, ABdV at 53. And he has 4-5,000 more runs than them, and a lower percentage of not-outs.

Actually, throw in a T20I average of 48, and you can probably call him the best white ball cricketer ever.

[Virgil]

@mariner4life said in Other Cricket:

late career Virat Kohli ramming home that he is the undisputed best ODI batsman of all time.

ODI hundred number 53, averaging 58 after 307 matches is fucking insane. To put that in perspective, there are only 3 guys that have batted over 200 times in ODI cricket to average 50+, Dhoni at 50, ABdV at 53. And he has 4-5,000 more runs than them, and a lower percentage of not-outs.

Actually, throw in a T20I average of 48, and you can probably call him the best white ball cricketer ever.

on top of that it was the 11th time he has scored back to back ODI 100's
guy is def the GOAT of ODI batting
53 x 100s from 295 innings is beyond amazing, i dont think theres anyone comparable in Test cricket with that record.

[MN5]

Viv Richards doesn't compete with Kohlis ridiculous numbers on paper ( well actually a SR of 90 vs 93 is close to be fair ) but I would have loved to have seen how he'd have gone in todays era. Extremely close I'll wager.

[1kiwi]

Few Kiwis picked up at the IPL auction overnight.
Jacob Duffy (Royal Challengers Bangalore) went for $380,000 and Zac Foulkes (Chennai Super Kings) for $143,000)
Rachin Ravindra and Finn Allen are heading to Kolkata Knight Riders, Matt Henry to Chennai Super Kings and Kyle Jamieson to Dehil Capitals. Tim Seifert got picked up by Kolkata Knight Riders for $280,000 & Adam Milne to Rajasthan Royals for $460,000 which was above his base price.

Kiwis who went unsold were Conway, Michael Bracewell, Daryl Mitchell, Tim Robinson, Muhammed Abbas, Nathan Smith & Ben Sears.

[MN5]

@1kiwi said in Other Cricket:

Few Kiwis picked up at the IPL auction overnight.
Jacob Duffy (Royal Challengers Bangalore) went for $380,000 and Zac Foulkes (Chennai Super Kings) for $143,000)
Rachin Ravindra and Finn Allen are heading to Kolkata Knight Riders, Matt Henry to Chennai Super Kings and Kyle Jamieson to Dehil Capitals. Tim Seifert got picked up by Kolkata Knight Riders for $280,000 & Adam Milne to Rajasthan Royals for $460,000 which was above his base price.

Kiwis who went unsold were Conway, Michael Bracewell, Daryl Mitchell, Tim Robinson, Muhammed Abbas, Nathan Smith & Ben Sears.

What ???????????

[Bovidae]

The NZ U19 squad.

Five players with domestic caps have been selected to represent New Zealand at the 2026 ICC Men’s Under-19 Cricket World Cup hosted by Zimbabwe and Namibia. Otago opening batter Tom Jones will captain the 15-strong squad who depart for Africa on January 2.

https://www.nzc.nz/news-items/rising-domestic-stars-set-for-u19-world-cup/

What piqued my interest is Flynn Morey. He was in the NZ Schools rugby team this year, so another who will have to make a decision on which sport to focus on in the future.