Black Caps vs Bangles
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Smith was keeper from 84 onwards (plus the 81 season), Hadlee retired in 90. So 6 years. Plus Hadlee hung around in 88 and 89 playing bugger all with injuries but wanting to get to 400.
Watling and Southee since 2012? 4 years, now maybe up to 5.
So without doing a number of tests comparison, that's not that outlandish.
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@Godder said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Southee gets a lot of edges - although Sir Paddles also got plenty of edges, he got a lot of LBWs and bowleds.
Didn't Sir Paddles get asked what his secret was once, and he responded with something like "bowl the ball at the stumps, as fast as I can". He wasn't fucking around trying for caught-behinds.
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@Kruse said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Godder said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Southee gets a lot of edges - although Sir Paddles also got plenty of edges, he got a lot of LBWs and bowleds.
Didn't Sir Paddles get asked what his secret was once, and he responded with something like "bowl the ball at the stumps, as fast as I can". He wasn't fucking around trying for caught-behinds.
TBH. This sounds like complete crap, and may be a quote misappropriated from someone else, like Waqar.
Because Hadlee was a medium fast swing bowler, of course he was trying to get caught behinds.
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It is Sunday, in the middle of January.... and fuck all have turned up to watch test match cricket at the Basin, the Basin needs to be shunted down the pecking order of test venues.
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@Rapido said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Kruse said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Godder said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Southee gets a lot of edges - although Sir Paddles also got plenty of edges, he got a lot of LBWs and bowleds.
Didn't Sir Paddles get asked what his secret was once, and he responded with something like "bowl the ball at the stumps, as fast as I can". He wasn't fucking around trying for caught-behinds.
TBH. This sounds like complete crap, and may be a quote misappropriated from someone else, like Waqar.
Because Hadlee was a medium fast swing bowler, of course he was trying to get caught behinds.
Very possible - my addled memory has this from something I heard as a kid... it could just as easily have been my primary school cricket coach telling me how to bowl.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
It is Sunday, in the middle of January.... and fuck all have turned up to watch test match cricket at the Basin, the Basin needs to be shunted down the pecking order of test venues.
LOL what? The Basin consistently gets the highest crowds of any ground in New Zealand to test matches. Besides the Basin already has been shunted down the order (missing out on an England test, for example) but that has nothing to do with crowds. You can say middle of January all you want but there was a severe weather warning for Wellington this morning.
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@Rapido said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Kruse said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Godder said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Southee gets a lot of edges - although Sir Paddles also got plenty of edges, he got a lot of LBWs and bowleds.
Didn't Sir Paddles get asked what his secret was once, and he responded with something like "bowl the ball at the stumps, as fast as I can". He wasn't fucking around trying for caught-behinds.
TBH. This sounds like complete crap, and may be a quote misappropriated from someone else, like Waqar.
Because Hadlee was a medium fast swing bowler, of course he was trying to get caught behinds.
Sir Paddles wanted wickets any way (legally and fairly) he could get them. That quote isn't his, but he did practise to be as close to the stumps as possible in his delivery stride so he could get more LBWs and bowleds by being straighter and more along the pitch.
He wasn't just a swing bowler as he could also seam it both ways, and when he bent his back, was also able to bounce Joel Garner (6'8" ...).
On the actual cricket, NZ are now 539 all out, Santner last man out for 73.
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Southee is obviously not the sharpest tool int he box and can't throw straight let alone bowl it seems so no surprise he is poor but it is disappointing that Boult can not figure out the top of off stump corridor of doubt. He has either been on leg and middle or to far outside off. Does his run of injuries mean he doesn't practice anymore so lacks accuracy?.
Bowling coach must be weak or as simple as the two of them
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
It is Sunday, in the middle of January.... and fuck all have turned up to watch test match cricket at the Basin, the Basin needs to be shunted down the pecking order of test venues.
What a load of shit baron. Despite how they've done so far in this test the bangies are hardly a drawcard for big crowds and the nation's weather hasn't helped either. Your Bay area cricket grounds will never compete.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
It is Sunday, in the middle of January.... and fuck all have turned up to watch test match cricket at the Basin, the Basin needs to be shunted down the pecking order of test venues.
What a load of shit baron. Despite how they've done so far in this test the bangies are hardly a drawcard for big crowds and the nation's weather hasn't helped either. Your Bay area cricket grounds will never compete.
It is a test match, and there were probably couple of hundred in the ground.. on a Sunday... in mid January.
It is just pathetic.
But you are right about the weather, Wellington has shit weather.
