Cricket: NZ vs Aus
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It's odd to think that CA would punt the Black Caps from future summers. Sure they performed abysmally, but I'd much rather see them than the equally shithouse Pakistanis, Sri Lankans or West Indians. And judging by crowd figures I'm far from alone.
What's more, I enjoy a one-sided Kiwi flogging more than just about anything. Watching us roll the Pakistanis barely elicited a smile, but I was grinning from ear to fucking ear for all 12 days of this series. It's just something that brightened my dark, Bledisloe-less world.
So outside of India and England, I'd have the Black Caps a solid third on the list for future Boxing Days. If the Saffas decide they want to come then they can have that spot, but it doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon.
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It's odd to think that CA would punt the Black Caps from future summers. Sure they performed abysmally, but I'd much rather see them than the equally shithouse Pakistanis, Sri Lankans or West Indians. And judging by crowd figures I'm far from alone.
What's more, I enjoy a one-sided Kiwi flogging more than just about anything. Watching us roll the Pakistanis barely elicited a smile, but I was grinning from ear to fucking ear for all 12 days of this series. It's just something that brightened my dark, Bledisloe-less world.
So outside of India and England, I'd have the Black Caps a solid third on the list for future Boxing Days. If the Saffas decide they want to come then they can have that spot, but it doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon.
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It's odd to think that CA would punt the Black Caps from future summers. Sure they performed abysmally, but I'd much rather see them than the equally shithouse Pakistanis, Sri Lankans or West Indians. And judging by crowd figures I'm far from alone.
What's more, I enjoy a one-sided Kiwi flogging more than just about anything. Watching us roll the Pakistanis barely elicited a smile, but I was grinning from ear to fucking ear for all 12 days of this series. It's just something that brightened my dark, Bledisloe-less world.
So outside of India and England, I'd have the Black Caps a solid third on the list for future Boxing Days. If the Saffas decide they want to come then they can have that spot, but it doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon.
@barbarian said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
So outside of India and England, I'd have the Black Caps a solid third on the list for future Boxing Days.
That's about where we should be, but we seriously need to do some work on our play in Aus conditions. Hard to do when we don't get to play there I guess.
Have to also get the crowds, but it will get boring just playing the same teams. 32 years was really too long and a shame to all concerned even though the end result was a damp squib due to our players not fronting up.
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Not a great look for the test cricket format either.
One sided blowouts where the chance of one team winning becomes effectively nil by the end of the first day is not a great look.
@KiwiMurph Agree with you, but we need to play it to get better at it.
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Not a great look for the test cricket format either.
One sided blowouts where the chance of one team winning becomes effectively nil by the end of the first day is not a great look.
@KiwiMurph said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Not a great look for the test cricket format either.
One sided blowouts where the chance of one team winning becomes effectively nil by the end of the first day is not a great look.
I recall similar comments referring to one sided rugby matches involving a team wearing black jerseys....
Swings and roundabouts.
I’m not that upset, disappointed yes, but I didn’t have high expectations to start with based on a few factors.
But the big take away for me is that we did see a more mature Aussie side. I think we bowled pretty well but the discipline of the OZ top order was excellent to the point that surprised many Aussie fans I spoke with.
Their bowling was always going to trouble ours in these conditions and the sort of wickets that would be prepped. But we lacked patience and application and unfortunately our second inning bowling efforts was whittled down to nothing more than time wasting
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@barbarian said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
So outside of India and England, I'd have the Black Caps a solid third on the list for future Boxing Days.
That's about where we should be, but we seriously need to do some work on our play in Aus conditions. Hard to do when we don't get to play there I guess.
Have to also get the crowds, but it will get boring just playing the same teams. 32 years was really too long and a shame to all concerned even though the end result was a damp squib due to our players not fronting up.
@Snowy said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@barbarian said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
So outside of India and England, I'd have the Black Caps a solid third on the list for future Boxing Days.
That's about where we should be, but we seriously need to do some work on our play in Aus conditions. Hard to do when we don't get to play there I guess.
Have to also get the crowds, but it will get boring just playing the same teams. 32 years was really too long and a shame to all concerned even though the end result was a damp squib due to our players not fronting up.
I reckon every 4 to 6 years would give us enough time to allow the scars of the previous tour to heal
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Does Aus smashing India put our losses a little more into context? I thin Aus are just on a high and impossible to beat at home right now.
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@Darren said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Does Aus smashing India put our losses a little more into context? I thin Aus are just on a high and impossible to beat at home right now.
Yes, except they smashed them IN India :astonished_face:
@TeWaio said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Darren said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Does Aus smashing India put our losses a little more into context? I thin Aus are just on a high and impossible to beat at home right now.
Yes, except they smashed them IN India :astonished_face:
Oh damm, I just thought they played in Aus, wow! That is a mauling then.
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Did we have use this thread? I'd just about managed to erase this from my memory ... It's back again!! Make it go away!
