Black Clash
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@mn5 said in Black Clash:
@crucial said in Black Clash:
Jeez K. Bosh hits the ball hard.
The commentators did tell us he was a big hitter.
Funny AND knowledgeable, amazing combination
They're fucking relentless - I'll give them that.
Certainly didn't go to the Richie Benaud school of commentary.
I'm using my mute button discretely to pretend Richie is teaching them the value of silences.
@chris-b said in Black Clash:
@mn5 said in Black Clash:
@crucial said in Black Clash:
Jeez K. Bosh hits the ball hard.
The commentators did tell us he was a big hitter.
Funny AND knowledgeable, amazing combination
They're fucking relentless - I'll give them that.
Certainly didn't go to the Richie Benaud school of commentary.
I'm using my mute button discretely to pretend Richie is teaching them the value of silences.
They’re better on the radio to be fair. Some of these gags are a bit repetitive
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@godder said in Black Clash:
@chris-b said in Black Clash:
@crucial They must be an acquired taste. Frankly, the voices in my head are funnier...
On a slightly different note - I haven't played cricket in a while. What pitches do we have other than Bay Oval and ND variants these days?
Hagley Oval is excellent.
Does anyone play there other than St. Albans?
@chris-b said in Black Clash:
@godder said in Black Clash:
@chris-b said in Black Clash:
@crucial They must be an acquired taste. Frankly, the voices in my head are funnier...
On a slightly different note - I haven't played cricket in a while. What pitches do we have other than Bay Oval and ND variants these days?
Hagley Oval is excellent.
Does anyone play there other than St. Albans?
Black Caps and Canterbury from time to time.
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@anonymous Sounded like it.
I think that might have been a bit of a job done dismissal.
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Enjoyable watch especially the Bond double up over. But the commentators were excruciatingly bad and so repetitive.
@arhs said in Black Clash:
Enjoyable watch especially the Bond double up over. But the commentators were excruciatingly bad and so repetitive.
Even as a fan of their radio work I can’t disagree to be honest.
I know the cricket guys are a long time retired in many cases but to lose to a bunch of rugby players is a bit embarrassing surely. Bond and Mills looked like they were trying pretty hard as well.
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A good night out at Bay Oval.
From memory of previous years, and from reading the thread, one of the best parts of being at the ground was not hearing the ACC take a once half-decent joke and repeat it 20 plus times. Brodie and the ground announcer also tried their best to do that, but at least there was respite when the ball was in play.
The teams felt selected to give a good chance of bringing it back to 2-2, McCullum and Devcich being T20 specialists at any time. Great to see Bond off the long run one more time. And st. Parore b. Vettori!
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@arhs said in Black Clash:
Enjoyable watch especially the Bond double up over. But the commentators were excruciatingly bad and so repetitive.
Even as a fan of their radio work I can’t disagree to be honest.
I know the cricket guys are a long time retired in many cases but to lose to a bunch of rugby players is a bit embarrassing surely. Bond and Mills looked like they were trying pretty hard as well.
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@mn5 It's the Has-beens vs the Might-have-beens.
Many of the rugby guys played under-age rep cricket - several made NZ rep teams.
@chris-b Will Jordan averaging 56 in Black Clash matches. Imagine if he could play rugby too…
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@chris-b Will Jordan averaging 56 in Black Clash matches. Imagine if he could play rugby too…
@act-crusader said in Black Clash:
@chris-b Will Jordan averaging 56 in Black Clash matches. Imagine if he could play rugby too…
How many times did he drop the bat?
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@mn5 It's the Has-beens vs the Might-have-beens.
Many of the rugby guys played under-age rep cricket - several made NZ rep teams.
@chris-b said in Black Clash:
@mn5 It's the Has-beens vs the Might-have-beens.
Many of the rugby guys played under-age rep cricket - several made NZ rep teams.
Absolutely but Read and Jordan looked ridiculously capable with the bat. As if being bloody good rugby players wasn’t/isn’t enough !!??
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@chris-b said in Black Clash:
@mn5 It's the Has-beens vs the Might-have-beens.
Many of the rugby guys played under-age rep cricket - several made NZ rep teams.
Absolutely but Read and Jordan looked ridiculously capable with the bat. As if being bloody good rugby players wasn’t/isn’t enough !!??
@mn5 Read made an NZ schools team at cricket. Jordan played school cricket for Canterbury.
Jordie just missed the NZ U19 team. Ross and Boshier both NZ reps at cricket. Spice played for ND.
Tonuú played for Samoa.
McCullum and Devcich as ring-ins.
Not sure about the others, but I bet they were handy.
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@mn5 Read made an NZ schools team at cricket. Jordan played school cricket for Canterbury.
Jordie just missed the NZ U19 team. Ross and Boshier both NZ reps at cricket. Spice played for ND.
Tonuú played for Samoa.
McCullum and Devcich as ring-ins.
Not sure about the others, but I bet they were handy.
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@chris-b Boshier was the NZ U19 cricket captain, which I assume the commentators mentioned.
@bovidae said in Black Clash:
@chris-b Boshier was the NZ U19 cricket captain, which I assume the commentators mentioned.
Nah, they were too busy saying NMac looks like a Komodo dragon for the tenth time.
It came up as a screen caption though. -
@chris-b Boshier was the NZ U19 cricket captain, which I assume the commentators mentioned.
@bovidae Yeah - he's mentioned in my dispatches.
I ended up not watching much, but other years I've suggested that the commentators would do far better to do some research into the rugby players cricketing backgrounds and vice-versa - provide a bit of value - instead of relentless talking of shit.
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@mn5 Read made an NZ schools team at cricket. Jordan played school cricket for Canterbury.
Jordie just missed the NZ U19 team. Ross and Boshier both NZ reps at cricket. Spice played for ND.
Tonuú played for Samoa.
McCullum and Devcich as ring-ins.
Not sure about the others, but I bet they were handy.
@chris-b said in Black Clash:
@mn5 Read made an NZ schools team at cricket. Jordan played school cricket for Canterbury.
Jordie just missed the NZ U19 team. Ross and Boshier both NZ reps at cricket. Spice played for ND.
Tonuú played for Samoa.
McCullum and Devcich as ring-ins.
Not sure about the others, but I bet they were handy.
Yeah but ‘handy’ players should still be cannon fodder for the cricket team. I mean Bondy was absolute class, guys like Fleming, Vettori, Elliot, and Mills were very good as well.
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@chris-b said in Black Clash:
@mn5 Read made an NZ schools team at cricket. Jordan played school cricket for Canterbury.
Jordie just missed the NZ U19 team. Ross and Boshier both NZ reps at cricket. Spice played for ND.
Tonuú played for Samoa.
McCullum and Devcich as ring-ins.
Not sure about the others, but I bet they were handy.
Yeah but ‘handy’ players should still be cannon fodder for the cricket team. I mean Bondy was absolute class, guys like Fleming, Vettori, Elliot, and Mills were very good as well.
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@chris-b said in Black Clash:
@mn5 Read made an NZ schools team at cricket. Jordan played school cricket for Canterbury.
Jordie just missed the NZ U19 team. Ross and Boshier both NZ reps at cricket. Spice played for ND.
Tonuú played for Samoa.
McCullum and Devcich as ring-ins.
Not sure about the others, but I bet they were handy.
Yeah but ‘handy’ players should still be cannon fodder for the cricket team. I mean Bondy was absolute class, guys like Fleming, Vettori, Elliot, and Mills were very good as well.
@mn5 said in Black Clash:
@chris-b said in Black Clash:
@mn5 Read made an NZ schools team at cricket. Jordan played school cricket for Canterbury.
Jordie just missed the NZ U19 team. Ross and Boshier both NZ reps at cricket. Spice played for ND.
Tonuú played for Samoa.
McCullum and Devcich as ring-ins.
Not sure about the others, but I bet they were handy.
Yeah but ‘handy’ players should still be cannon fodder for the cricket team. I mean Bondy was absolute class, guys like Fleming, Vettori, Elliot, and Mills were very good as well.
One of the noticeable things to me was a lot of skied shots by the rugby players that didn't fall to hand. When the cricket players were younger, fitter and faster, I suspect they would have got to some of those. Likewise the faster bowlers aren't as fast as they were in their 20s and 30s, so they aren't as scary to rep cricketers as they would have been in their primes.
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This would be entertaining (Tom Walsh smashing it), Jordie bowling bouncers etc but these commentary idiots are just painfully unfunny.
Grant Elliot has come in to bat and they managed to say “hairy javelin” 3 times in ten seconds. Once might have been humorous……@crucial said in Black Clash:
This would be entertaining (Tom Walsh smashing it), Jordie bowling bouncers etc but these commentary idiots are just painfully unfunny.
Grant Elliot has come in to bat and they managed to say “hairy javelin” 3 times in ten seconds. Once might have been humorous……Top hitting from Tom Walsh, for a big fella he's pretty good in the field too - yeah, those commentators are trying too hard to be funny, so come across as pillocks.
This event is a really fun watch every year - we have all played at least some backyard cricket & a lot of the rugby players have played plenty of youth cricket, so they're always going to perform decently at least against the cricketers.
