Black Caps v South Africa
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@Canes4life said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
Rachin going nicely, I’m glad he’s playing his natural game. He’s hit plenty of shots but unfortunately he’s picked out the fielder with most of them.
lot easier to fix that than repair abysmal technique. he looks good - could be on a hundy by now if they had gone through the field!
Slow scoring here, but slowly tipping towards NZ. I'm enjoying it
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
Around the time that Sky lost the cricket, we'd developed a pretty World Class commentary team, while the Aussies were messing around with their blokey crap. I thought our coverage was significantly better.
They've lifted their game significantly - including poaching Smithy - but also including a couple of Brits and better analysts, while we've gone backwards. Their coverage is way more professional than ours now.
Richardson is clearly going for the Boycott look with the hat. Makes sense, as he is just as boring to listen to.
Our best cricket commentators (e.g., Smith, Doull) earn their money overseas when we now play at home.
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@Bovidae I used to like Scott Styris, as well - tendency towards the grumpy and critical (along with Smith and Doull). He seems to have disappeared.
Richardson and McMillan tend to chatter on.
Elliott is a bit more considered, but quiet and maybe a bit too nice.
Sumo isn't going to give many technical insights.
Katey Martin might be quite good - I'm still deciding.
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Bob Blair the cricketer gets a bit lost in the other bigger tragedy related to his life.
But he was probably the most dominant bowler ever in NZ domestic cricket.
Struggled to find the same sort of penetration at test level, though. Where he averaged 33ish with the ball IIRC. In NZs most difficult/worst period. The 1950s.
In Plunket Shield he was top wicket taker on 6 occasions, which is still the best ever.
Had a Plunket Shield bowling average of 14.73. Taking 352 wickets.
(His over FC record was 537 wickets at 18.54, his test record was 43 wickets at 35 23)
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@Damo said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
Conway badly out of form but that was a hell of a first delivery. That would have taken a lot of wickets against a lot of batsmen new to the crease - Nicholls included I strongly suspect.
Not really Right arm around the wkt straightened.Conway just didn’t move his feet again and played down the wrong line.
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I've never seen a player transform like Olivier before.
He was 145k+
Took a kolpak contract. Returned 2 years later after brexit, having dropped 20k in pace. I believe he had an injury. But still quite remarkable as his jerky action means he looks like he is still looking for maximum pace. Rather than an e.g. Derek Pringle.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
I used to like Scott Styris, as well - tendency towards the grumpy and critical (along with Smith and Doull). He seems to have disappeared.
I think I heard him on the u19’s World Cup coverage
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@Rapido said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
I've never seen a player transform like Olivier before.
He was 145k+
Took a kolpak contract. Returned 2 years later after brexit, having dropped 20k in pace. I believe he had an injury. But still quite remarkable as his jerky action means he looks like he is still looking for maximum pace. Rather than an e.g. Derek Pringle.
Yeah he has had some bad injuries and has remodelled his bowling action he may get a bit quicker when he works into that new action but not 145 again.
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@Rapido said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
I've never seen a player transform like Olivier before.
He was 145k+
Took a kolpak contract. Returned 2 years later after brexit, having dropped 20k in pace. I believe he had an injury. But still quite remarkable as his jerky action means he looks like he is still looking for maximum pace. Rather than an e.g. Derek Pringle.
Another one of those ‘next Bothams’…..very handy first class stats, bog standard test player though
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Kane getting loose. See out the day bro
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@ACT-Crusader said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
Kane getting loose. See out the day bro
Settle…..
He’s got this.
KW with test ton number 30. An amazing milestone for anyone, let alone a kiwi test cricketer.
Test batting average sitting at an incredible 55.03 after 97 tests. That’s exceptional. 18th of ALL TIME and you can ( by my less than scientific measure ) discount a few of them due to short lived careers ( Brook, Voges, Pollock, Headley, Paynter ).
…..and while I’m wanking on about our best ever batsman Ravindra gets a cheeky debut ton. Happy days. Well done fellas !
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True but South African catching also woeful. At least they capitalised on chances
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It is now 6pm. Scheduled close of play and SA are 10 overs behind.
The extra half hour is supposed to be extra time in exceptional circumstances, not simply built into the day's play.
Great to see Rachin and Kane getting their centuries.
Nicholls will be gutted. No doubt he would have scored a career saving double century against these guys.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
Both on 108. I hope there’s a bit of a friendly race going on and Ravindra is enjoying batting with a legend. Can only help his experience in the long term !
Still beggars belief that he was being cockblocked from the test side for so long. He demonstrated his quality as early as that Indian away tour when he saved a test in might what have been his debut
