Black Caps vs Bangles
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Back to the topic at hand. Anyone else think the manner in which they lost, injuries, lack of results, short turnaround and the fact they probably all have one foot on the plane mean that the Bangies are gonna get destroyed in this test?
I'm picking a massive win for the BCs weather permitting
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You've said the same thing every game so far.
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@mariner4life said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
You've said the same thing every game so far.
@mariner4life said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
You've said the same thing every game so far.
Yes and I've been right every time too.
Seriously, the bangies are gonna get beaten bad.
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@Snowy said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Virgil Unfortunately every time I have been on that band wagon it has a collapse and we are still going nowhere.
Fear not, @Snowy ! McCullum reinforced it when he was in charge and Williamson is providing preventative maintenance.
She's as secure as she's ever been!
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NZ won the game because we pretty much matched their first innings mammoth total through a daddy 100 by Latham. Putting the nervous novices in a position to wobble in a no-win third dig.
Therefore IMO Latham was our match winner, and the obvious choice for motm.
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@Snowy said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Virgil Unfortunately every time I have been on that band wagon it has a collapse and we are still going nowhere.
Good point. We need to implement a 'no fatty's allowed' policy to avoid a repeat.
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@dogmeat said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@hydro11 Not knocking the Basin as I would always have it as NZ's number one venue but bit misleading to say its sold out and Eden Park hasn't given EP has approximately 6 times the Basin's capacity
That's true. Eden Park has actually got some decent crowds in the past to test matches. It has just looked poor on TV.
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@Hooroo said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Snowy said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Virgil Unfortunately every time I have been on that band wagon it has a collapse and we are still going nowhere.
Fear not, @Snowy ! McCullum reinforced it when he was in charge and Williamson is providing preventative maintenance.
She's as secure as she's ever been!
Thanks mate I feel so much better knowing that nothing has changed.
Actually that is quite depressing as a Craps fan. She's going to fall apart the moment a decent team arrives and we all walk again. Fucking wagons.
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@Snowy said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Actually that is quite depressing as a Craps fan. She's going to fall apart the moment a decent team arrives and we all walk again. Fucking wagons.
It's the Black caps way, we pound the worst touring sides around, are now the best BCs team ever. YAY! a tour to SA / Australia / India! Now we'll show them!.. oh...
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@gollum said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Snowy said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Actually that is quite depressing as a Craps fan. She's going to fall apart the moment a decent team arrives and we all walk again. Fucking wagons.
It's the Black caps way, we pound the worst touring sides around, are now the best BCs team ever. YAY! a tour to SA / Australia / India! Now we'll show them!.. oh...
We've been a bit better then that in recent times thanks to Kane, Ross and Boult. But yeah, we tend to make pretty ordinary players look like world beaters at home against the Bangles etc. The recent tour to Aus should be enough to keep people's feet on the ground leading into Aus/SA in NZ next.
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@gollum said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Snowy said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Actually that is quite depressing as a Craps fan. She's going to fall apart the moment a decent team arrives and we all walk again. Fucking wagons.
It's the Black caps way, we pound the worst touring sides around, are now the best BCs team ever. YAY! a tour to SA / Australia / India! Now we'll show them!.. oh...
We've been a bit better then that in recent times thanks to Kane, Ross and Boult. But yeah, we tend to make pretty ordinary players look like world beaters at home against the Bangles etc. The recent tour to Aus should be enough to keep people's feet on the ground leading into Aus/SA in NZ next.
It's a stretch to put Boult in the same echelon at KW and Rossco lately too.
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That attitude is the modern aussie way though, and we're always trying to learn off them.
Wait until the sky is falling again for them in a couple of months when they have been raped in India.
Although at least they have picked the Marsh boys as easy scapegoats
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@gollum said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Snowy said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Actually that is quite depressing as a Craps fan. She's going to fall apart the moment a decent team arrives and we all walk again. Fucking wagons.
It's the Black caps way, we pound the worst touring sides around, are now the best BCs team ever. YAY! a tour to SA / Australia / India! Now we'll show them!.. oh...
We've been a bit better then that in recent times thanks to Kane, Ross and Boult. But yeah, we tend to make pretty ordinary players look like world beaters at home against the Bangles etc. The recent tour to Aus should be enough to keep people's feet on the ground leading into Aus/SA in NZ next.
It's a stretch to put Boult in the same echelon at KW and Rossco lately too.
Injuries haven't helped lately but his numbers across all formats are outstanding. I'd mention him in the same echelon as Ross given he's playing in a batsmen's era. Kane is another level above for sure, but those three are head and shoulders above the rest when you look at tests, ODIs and T20s combined.
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http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafrica/content/story/1078051.html
AB DeVilliers is not bothering to play us in the test serries because he can't be arsed. He is alas available for the ODI's -
AB de Villiers has made himself unavailable for selection for the upcoming Test series in New Zealand in March though he has recovered from his elbow injury, but said that he was not retiring from Test cricket.
However, while squashing recent speculation that he was going to give up the longest format, AB de Villiers indicated that his priority was going to be limited-overs cricket in order to play the 2019 World Cup.
"That's a good question. Not yet. I'm not there yet," de Villiers said in Johannesburg on Tuesday, when asked when he would return to the Test side. "The reason being that I just need to settle things in my head. Over the last few years something has come to mind, which is the fact that we haven't won a World Cup yet. And for me to make it to the 2019 World Cup, I can't really be serious in every format.
"So I've made myself unavailable for the New Zealand Test series. I will be there for the ODIs, and I'm definitely not retiring from Test cricket because I have plans to come back at some stage. For me, for now the most important thing is the 2019 World Cup. I want to make sure we get there. I want to make sure we lift that trophy. Obviously there are other factors that play a role like family and time away from home, but the main reason for me is that World Cup and I feel that if I play all formats all the time, then mentally and physically I won't be at my best."
Haroon Lorgat, the CSA chief executive, said de Villiers' comments were not a surprise because he had been involved in discussions with the batsman. "We've given him the latitude of taking time off, of setting himself for the 2019 World Cup. It is very much part of our planning.
"We know it's challenging schedules that all of the players have. What I think is, he is not going to get another opportunity like he currently has with time off. To put it in this fashion - the most he must make of it now [sic], once he gets back on the treadmill it is all the way through to 2019."
Lorgat said he was confident de Villiers would be available for the Test series in England this summer. "What we're doing is taking it a series at a time. I am confident that by the time we get towards looking at England and the Champions Trophy, he'll be fully fit and raring to go. His appetite would have returned because then it would be a fair amount of time he has had. I'm confident England is kind of a series that he would want to be available for."
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@gollum said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
AB DeVilliers is not bothering to play us in the test serries because he can't be arsed. He is alas available for the ODI's -
Wow - they don't even sugar-coat it do they?
"Hmmm... tests against New Zealand? Nah, I'll pass." -
