Cricket: NZ vs Aus
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@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
So bring it on!!!!!
Oz in Oz!!!
It’s our best opportunity to win over here but the Ghosts of cricket past still haunt me.
Whitney holding Hadlee at bay in particular!
Can get $4 on the NZ and $8 on the draw so I took both of those.
If we bowl first I reckon they’ll struggle to bowl us out twice.
How often has that happened in the last few years?
Going to the Sydney Test with my 21 & 23 year old boys who have not experienced “real” cricket!
NZ playing in Perth at the MCG and SCG will be lucky if I live long enough to see that again!!!
Ultimate Summer of Cricket!!Fucking hollow. That LB was so fucking plumb McDermott should have walked. Unless it was going under.
Fuck.
That is all.
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@Xpat61 I'm too haunted.
I fear we're going to end up wishing we had a couple of 6'6 bowlers who can bowl 145+ kmh.
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@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@booboo
Do not start on the Oz in Oz decisions
The Sneddon catch?I'm still spitting about 'it could ahve come from anywhere'. FFS, thankfully modern DRS is much better than that - I think that was early doors. Still, cost us a very very rare chance of a win
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well i have boxing day tickets (so it will probably rain)..
if it doesn't rain, then I look forward to attending a once in a 30 year outing...just need to decide on clothing and choice of sandpaper
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Several dodgy decisions to save the series for Oz in this one, as well.
Ian Robinson responsible mainly responsible, as I recall.
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Several dodgy decisions to save the series for Oz in this one, as well.
Ian Robinson responsible mainly responsible, as I recall.
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We’re caught in a trap!!!
From my understanding not one of the NZ team contesting this series has played at any of the three grounds!
Oz coming off a Pink ball test into one!
No warm up match?
Feels like Wales taking on The ABs.
Good luck with that.......
However we have the best team we have ever put out against Oz barring one opener who looks like a BC of days of yore!
Should we throw him or someone else to the wolves?
He’s already lacking any sense of confidence so why not chuck someone in who is not totally failing in their role? -
@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@booboo
Do not start on the Oz in Oz decisions
The Sneddon catch?I'm still spitting about 'it could ahve come from anywhere'. FFS, thankfully modern DRS is much better than that - I think that was early doors. Still, cost us a very very rare chance of a win
@nzzp said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@booboo
Do not start on the Oz in Oz decisions
The Sneddon catch?I'm still spitting about 'it could ahve come from anywhere'. FFS, thankfully modern DRS is much better than that - I think that was early doors. Still, cost us a very very rare chance of a win
That one was the absolute worst. Just reading that phrase makes me angry.
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@nzzp said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@booboo
Do not start on the Oz in Oz decisions
The Sneddon catch?I'm still spitting about 'it could ahve come from anywhere'. FFS, thankfully modern DRS is much better than that - I think that was early doors. Still, cost us a very very rare chance of a win
That one was the absolute worst. Just reading that phrase makes me angry.
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@voodoo
This is the first time in 25 years (please correct me if wrong stats dudes) that the New Zealand Cricket Team have been given the big three venues!
The Oz public are pretty ambivilous cause its just The Kiwis and Wagner (who they’ve never heard of) is ranked 3rd in the world and just taken 2 Michelle’s?
Our best batsmen are both coming off undefeated centuries?
What’s not to be excited about
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Lance Cairns no ball v Jim Higgs
Chris Cairns to Langer 4th ball of the first test 2000/01 at Brisbane
Greg Dyer in the above mentioned test.
Never forget.
Never forgive.
@booboo another doozy was an ODI in Aus. Stephen Fleming batting. For 3 balls the Aussies had one too many in the outfield for that particular phase of the match.
Fleming, correctly, pointed this out to the umpire. The field was corrected, ( not the no balls of course), and Flem got fined 1500 bucks for bringing the game into disrepute!
Challenging an umpire !
Edit: got a few details wrong but the jist remains https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/23180784/fleming-incurs-fine-following-dissent-charge
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We’re caught in a trap!!!
From my understanding not one of the NZ team contesting this series has played at any of the three grounds!
Oz coming off a Pink ball test into one!
No warm up match?
Feels like Wales taking on The ABs.
Good luck with that.......
However we have the best team we have ever put out against Oz barring one opener who looks like a BC of days of yore!
Should we throw him or someone else to the wolves?
He’s already lacking any sense of confidence so why not chuck someone in who is not totally failing in their role?@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
We’re caught in a trap!!!
From my understanding not one of the NZ team contesting this series has played at any of the three grounds!
Oz coming off a Pink ball test into one!
No warm up match?
Feels like Wales taking on The ABs.
Good luck with that.......
However we have the best team we have ever put out against Oz barring one opener who looks like a BC of days of yore!
Should we throw him or someone else to the wolves?
He’s already lacking any sense of confidence so why not chuck someone in who is not totally failing in their role?Short memory. Rosco completed the highest innings scored by an overseas batsman as he and Kane put on a 265 run partnership
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@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
We’re caught in a trap!!!
From my understanding not one of the NZ team contesting this series has played at any of the three grounds!
Oz coming off a Pink ball test into one!
No warm up match?
Feels like Wales taking on The ABs.
Good luck with that.......
However we have the best team we have ever put out against Oz barring one opener who looks like a BC of days of yore!
Should we throw him or someone else to the wolves?
He’s already lacking any sense of confidence so why not chuck someone in who is not totally failing in their role?Short memory. Rosco completed the highest innings scored by an overseas batsman as he and Kane put on a 265 run partnership
@dogmeat said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
We’re caught in a trap!!!
From my understanding not one of the NZ team contesting this series has played at any of the three grounds!
Oz coming off a Pink ball test into one!
No warm up match?
Feels like Wales taking on The ABs.
Good luck with that.......
However we have the best team we have ever put out against Oz barring one opener who looks like a BC of days of yore!
Should we throw him or someone else to the wolves?
He’s already lacking any sense of confidence so why not chuck someone in who is not totally failing in their role?Short memory. Rosco completed the highest innings scored by an overseas batsman as he and Kane put on a 265 run partnership
That was that WACA. There's a new stadium in Perth now.
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Looking forward to this series, but keeping a lid on expectations.
I’m probably scared from a lifetime of seeing the BCs be beaten up over there.
@Gunner said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Looking forward to this series, but keeping a lid on expectations.
I’m probably scared from a lifetime of seeing the BCs be beaten up over there.
I'm rather optimistic about this series. We don't get thumped any more. Our batting backbone has never been so solid.
We may not win the series but I bet we don't capitulate and get rolled easily.
I'm predicting a series win to the black caps. There! I've said it.
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If the tour does go sideways I suspect it will be more due to us chasing leather than major batting collapses.
I see how we can get enough runs to win, but I'm not sure where the 20 wickets are coming from without a session of madness from Australia.
