Cricket: NZ vs Aus

canefan

@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Wagner has certainly fronted on this tour.

Steve Smith = Wagner's Bunny

That's remarkable by itself. What a bowler

He's earned rave reviews. The only bright spot

booboo

Broken hand for Boult.

Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.

Rapido

To think, they've kept Bradman II quiet and are still going to get the 2 biggest consecutive hidings in our history.

What a waste.

TeWaio

If our batsmen got to face our bowlers we'd score 400+ easily.

Similarly if the Aussie batsmen had to face their bowlers they'd probably be rolled for under 200.

Machpants

Assistant Jordie Barrett was out easily too

Biorealism

@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Broken hand for Boult.

Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.

Hopefully they take the opportunity to fly over Sommerville.

canefan

Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all

canefan

@Biorealism said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Broken hand for Boult.

Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.

Hopefully they take the opportunity to fly over Sommerville.

He's a spinner. 38 is not that old to trundle in. Fuck the future, he'll be good for a couple of years easy

Godder

@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all

He reached 200 test wickets today, and is apparently the only bowler with 200+ test wickets to have debuted since the first ODI, not to have taken at least one ODI wicket.

canefan

@Godder said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all

He reached 200 test wickets today, and is apparently the only bowler with 200+ test wickets to have debuted since the first ODI, not to have taken at least one ODI wicket.

Has he ever played ODI or T20 for NZ?

mikey07

@canefan According to cricinfo he hasn’t

mikey07

[As if it couldn’t get any worse ]https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28380912/trent-boult-scg-test-fracturing-hand)

Cyclops

I think the most disappointing thing is that we've been undone by ourselves. A lack of patience and too many loose shots at key moments. The difference between us has been that the Aussie batsmen happily left anything not threatening alone and took what they could get. Our top 4 all went to soft shots at balls easily left. I think the combination of the occasion, the scoreboard pressure and a high quality bowling attack did that.

Also, although our bowlers performed okay (excellently in the case of Wags) I feel like we never bowled in partnerships so although we had individual bowlers looking threatening from time to time, we never managed to exert consistent pressure at both ends.

booboo

@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Broken hand for Boult.

Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.

What are you doing "liking" that post @KiwiMurph ?

KiwiMurph

@booboo was for the final sentence. He came out and bowled anyway.

mariner4life

@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

I think the most disappointing thing is that we've been undone by ourselves. A lack of patience and too many loose shots at key moments. The difference between us has been that the Aussie batsmen happily left anything not threatening alone and took what they could get. Our top 4 all went to soft shots at balls easily left. I think the combination of the occasion, the scoreboard pressure and a high quality bowling attack did that.

Also, although our bowlers performed okay (excellently in the case of Wags) I feel like we never bowled in partnerships so although we had individual bowlers looking threatening from time to time, we never managed to exert consistent pressure at both ends.

I actually think the bowlers did everything they could, ish. Southee and Boult bowled a lot of great deliveries. Wagner has been amazing. The Park Cricketer bowled above his station.

The entire batting card and Santners bowling can get fucked.

Cyclops

@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

I think the most disappointing thing is that we've been undone by ourselves. A lack of patience and too many loose shots at key moments. The difference between us has been that the Aussie batsmen happily left anything not threatening alone and took what they could get. Our top 4 all went to soft shots at balls easily left. I think the combination of the occasion, the scoreboard pressure and a high quality bowling attack did that.

Also, although our bowlers performed okay (excellently in the case of Wags) I feel like we never bowled in partnerships so although we had individual bowlers looking threatening from time to time, we never managed to exert consistent pressure at both ends.

I actually think the bowlers did everything they could, ish. Southee and Boult bowled a lot of great deliveries. Wagner has been amazing. The Park Cricketer bowled above his station.

The entire batting card and Santners bowling can get fucked.

All individual though. I just don't feel like we had an entire bowling unit working in unison, we had four individuals bowling well, doing there own thing. I think partly that was because we were rotating bowlers quite a lot, presumably to save legs so they couldn't really get partnerships going because it felt like we never had the same pair going together for more than six or seven overs.

mariner4life

@Cyclops I sort of see what you are saying, but respectfully I disagree. On day 1 I watched a four person unit bowl what I think looked like a plan, and stick to it regimentaly.

It was countered by a batting unit who played incredibly disciplined and patient cricket, just enough pressure relieving deliveries, and a lack of firepower.

This pitch is not all out for 150 either.