Black Caps vs Pakistan Series

[Gunner]

Good catch Timmy boy!!!!

[Gunner]

Our death bowling is shit, a couple more of those overs and it’ll be a very tight finish.

[No Quarter]

Thata boy Lachie

[Gunner]

Yeeesssssss.

The bowling has been much better in the last couple overs

[No Quarter]

Bit more fortune like that and they could get home here! Sheesh

[Virgil]

Southee doing his best to lose it

[Gunner]

We need the wicket to win, coz they’ll get the runs.

Lucky fluffybunnies two boundaries from French cuts in the last few balls.

Our 20 odd extras we’ve given away could cost us this game.

[Virgil]

Getting hairy!

[Donsteppa]

Shithouse death bowling.

[Gunner]

@virgil said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:

Southee doing his best to lose it

That’s harsh. He was pretty unlucky not to take the last wicket, instead going for 4 runs.

[Gunner]

Yes boy!

[canefan]

I wonder what odds Mr Gupta was getting for a last gasp Pakistani win?

[Virgil]

Never in doubt..

[Donsteppa]

@virgil said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:

Never in doubt..

Made hard work of it!

[No Quarter]

5 fucking nil, fuck yeah!!

Bit silly from Rumman, 16 from the last over with a set batsmen - they were in with a shout.

But overall we've embarrassed a very good Pakistan team, what a time to be alive! Too much class overall and a deserved whitewash for the boys. Great stuff.

[mimic]

Heaps of hype around Babar Azam, coming in with an average of 58 or something..
Then 31runs in his 5 hit outs..

[No Quarter]

@mimic said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:

Heaps of hype around Babar Azam, coming in with an average of 58 or something..
Then 31runs in his 5 hit outs..

Test average of 23, first class average of 34. Also, I believe 6 of his 7 ODI tons have been scored in the UAE.

All of this points towards him being a flat track bully.

He has potential but he's not in the same league as other world class players at this stage of his career.

[hydro11]

@no-quarter said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:

@mimic said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:

Heaps of hype around Babar Azam, coming in with an average of 58 or something..
Then 31runs in his 5 hit outs..

Test average of 23, first class average of 34. Also, I believe 6 of his 7 ODI tons have been scored in the UAE.

All of this points towards him being a flat track bully.

He has potential but he's not in the same league as other world class players at this stage of his career.

UAE is a tough place to bat, to be fair.

[Chris B.]

We were a bit lucky to get away with blowing those last 10 overs - probably 20 runs short of par.

Australia and England probably won't let us get get away with that sort of crash.

[Gunner]

@chris-b said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:

We were a bit lucky to get away with blowing those last 10 overs - probably 20 runs short of par.

Australia and England probably won't let us get get away with that sort of crash.

You could look at it as 20 runs short, which I say we were after the start we had.

But you could also look at the 18 wides we bowled. That’s far too many.

Add to that:
10 wides (30 overs) game 1
12 game 2
4 (27 overs) game 3
7 game 4
18 game 5

Total of 51 wides from 207 overs (average of 12.3 wides per full innings bowled) vs Pakistan’s 19 from 223 overs (average 4.3 per full innings) for the series.

I don’t think we can afford to give England or Aussie an 8 run head start on us...

I know stats aren’t everything in cricket, as we do tend to bowl quite attacking, which naturally lends itself to a less accuracy...

Still does seem rather high.