Cricket: NZ vs England

[Snowy]

@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

Should that stop me from making a snarky comment about the Henry/Ferguson selection?

No.

[Gunner]

So Engerland lose their last 5 wickets for 22 runs.

Need our batsmen to dig in here.

[Snowy]

@Gunner said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

So Engerland lose their last 5 wickets for 22 runs.

Thank you @booboo that worked rather well.

Best that you don't get out of bed until stumps though.

[Snowy]

The Wags legend grows too.

[bayimports]

@Gunner chance for Jeets to just bat time and hopefully find some form with it

[Snowy]

@bayimports said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@Gunner chance for Jeets to just bat time and hopefully find some form with it

Ummm, that whole jinx thing...

[bayimports]

@Snowy ya, not good from a jinx perspective, ..only trying to be positive though

[Donsteppa]

@Snowy said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@bayimports said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@Gunner chance for Jeets to just bat time and hopefully find some form with it

Ummm, that whole jinx thing...

Raval is a walking wicket either way these days. Shame there's no obvious replacement, as batting with just ten in Australia is less than ideal...

[Gunner]

Jeez, Raval is a waste of space at the moment.

Although Mr Waste of Space would probably feel pretty hard done by being compared to Raval at the moment.

[Snowy]

@Donsteppa True, except he hit it.

[Cyclops]

If ever there was a scenario tailor made for Jeet. Freedom to bat without any kind of time or run rate pressure.

This feels like a black caps collapse coming on. If we're as good as we hope we are we should be able to dig in and calmly bat out the test.

[Snowy]

@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

This feels like a black caps collapse coming on.

Psychologically scarred (we all are) and justifiably nervous.

[Cyclops]

One thing about DRS is that it gives a much better idea of form. No way an in form batsman doesn't instantly review that.

Do we have a warm up before the Perth test to try and get Raval back into nick?

[Hooroo]

Well, I am on board to what the comms are saying. He is so out of form and confidence so shot he can't even tell if he gets a thick inside edge.

We have to try someone else in Aussie. Take a chance and if it fails it makes no difference.

[Chris B.]

@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

One thing about DRS is that it gives a much better idea of form. No way an in form batsman doesn't instantly review that.

Do we have a warm up before the Perth test to try and get Raval back into nick?

Unfortunate thing with Jeet is that he's hardly played this "summer". - at least, not at first class level. Three innings for Auckland and now three for NZ - 48 runs in total. No short form cricket.

Looking closer - one of Auckland's games was rained out and the other two were low scoring affairs. Hopefully, he's played a bit of club cricket or he's badly underdone for test cricket.

[mariner4life]

Raval v Starc/Cummins/Hazlewood is just men against boy type stuff. It'll be a bloodbath.

[Bovidae]

Aussie have set us up by going from one pink ball test to another, while NZ has no warm-up game under lights.

[Chris B.]

@Bovidae Even if they'd given us a warm up game it would have been at the Coober Pedy Domain on a pitch of rolled opal mine tailings!

We're probably better off practicing at home rather than at the mercy of those deck stacking w@nkers!

[Bovidae]

@Chris-B I'm sure they will practice at Seddon Park under lights.

[bayimports]

If its any consolation the pink ball hasnt done much in Adelaide and Perth has been a road the last couple of years.. in saying that Jeets up against that lot, is a big ask