Cricket: NZ vs Aus
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Back at work, so not watching anymore. How's Astle looking? The commentary is hyping him up, and he should have had Labuschange cheaply, but my view on Astle has always been that he bowls too many pies. He takes genuinely great leg spinners wickets, but he'll give away toomany easy runs in between. If he had better control/consistency he'd be a genuine test quality attacking spinner, and a contender for our best ever spinner.
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Back at work, so not watching anymore. How's Astle looking? The commentary is hyping him up, and he should have had Labuschange cheaply, but my view on Astle has always been that he bowls too many pies. He takes genuinely great leg spinners wickets, but he'll give away toomany easy runs in between. If he had better control/consistency he'd be a genuine test quality attacking spinner, and a contender for our best ever spinner.
@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Back at work, so not watching anymore. How's Astle looking? The commentary is hyping him up, and he should have had Labuschange cheaply, but my view on Astle has always been that he bowls too many pies. He takes genuinely great leg spinners wickets, but he'll give away toomany easy runs in between. If he had better control/consistency he'd be a genuine test quality attacking spinner, and a contender for our best ever spinner.
He has been bowling really well today. Good consistency and some really nice wrong-uns
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Warner past 100; Marnus past 50.
Jesus Todd. A chance at getting him very cheaply and a small win and again it's a fuck up.
Enough guys in this team who've played very little test cricket and are playing for their spots that there's no way we should be looking demoralized and sloppy, but that was mentioned on the radio.
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our shit teams htat have come to Aus have shown more fight than this. We've been thoroughly demoralised.
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Marnus gets himself out slogging and Paine declares. I guess he knew the declaration was imminent, but I suspect when he reflects he'll be slightly pissed at either his choice of shot or the declaration timing - maybe both.
Aussies have basically romped past 200 for one wicket. Almost zero pressure from us.
And now we will see a dogfight for sure.
Pretty limp effort yesterday and today.
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While I find it hard to disagree with him, I am getting really annoyed by Warney saying 416 is FAR TOO MANY for this New Zealand team.
It's right but it just hurts!!!
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All to play for thanks to the sporting declaration from Paine.
I'm picking big hundreds to a couple of our top order and we do it in a canter.
@Damo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
All to play for thanks to the sporting declaration from Paine.
I'm picking big hundreds to a couple of our top order and we do it in a canter.
without your boundless, labrador-like enthusiam, this thread would be sooo bleak
oh and fuck up Warner you fluffybunny.
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All to play for thanks to the sporting declaration from Paine.
I'm picking big hundreds to a couple of our top order and we do it in a canter.
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All to play for thanks to the sporting declaration from Paine.
I'm picking big hundreds to a couple of our top order and we do it in a canter.
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@Damo TAB is keen to give you some money...
$51 for a NZ Win!
@taniwharugby He's smashed it - it's come in to $36 already!
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He's unlucky, given it looked like it was going down leg. And the tracker had it just clipping.
But as someone said to me once, nobody feels sorry for you if you get bowled and the ball 'just clips' the stumps.
@barbarian Erasmus hasn't had a very even-handed series. And Australia haven't really needed his help.
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He's unlucky, given it looked like it was going down leg. And the tracker had it just clipping.
But as someone said to me once, nobody feels sorry for you if you get bowled and the ball 'just clips' the stumps.
@barbarian said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
He's unlucky, given it looked like it was going down leg. And the tracker had it just clipping.
But as someone said to me once, nobody feels sorry for you if you get bowled and the ball 'just clips' the stumps.
while i have a certain level of understanding of that take, i think there is a slight difference, and that is what causes the angst
If you get bowled, you're out. Shit shot, piss off, you're out
With the "just clipping" and umpires call bullshit, you get a situation where your outcome is now dependent on who reviews. If that's given not out, and the Aussies review, it stays not out. Same delivery, two different outcomes. It should be either out, or not out
(i have said in the past, i think DRS for LBW should be gone unless it's to see if you hit it)
