Black Caps vs Bangles
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Agreed,
what's embarrassing is that 6 puts you in the top 12 all time in NZ players!
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Awesome to see Tom hit another ton, and Nicholls spend some time at the crease. A bit concerning that Rosco and Kane are both back in the pavillion still 300 behind, but if we can put on another 250ish runs then we've gone a long way towards saving the test.
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@No-Quarter saving the test? Only 11 wickets have been lost over 3 days.
We have 17 wickets left over 2.
Would have to be a collapse of ... err ... Black Cap proportions to lose from here.
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Just saw a meme on the internerd (Facebook .. i fucking hate facebook ... browsing on there for tge first time in a month) that said c. Watling B. Southee is the most prolific combo in NZ tests.
Am quite surprised.
Better than c. Smith b. Hadlee??
I know Hadlee's carrer stretched out longer tham Smthy's but it just seems to me that Southee and BJ's careers are at most just over half way.
And given Paddles lasted what? Nearly 20 years? ( I'll check) I'm just a little surprised.
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@booboo said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Just saw a meme on the internerd (Facebook .. i fucking hate facebook ... browsing on there for tge first time in a month) that said c. Watling B. Southee is the most prolific combo in NZ tests.
Am quite surprised.
Better than c. Smith b. Hadlee??
I know Hadlee's carrer stretched out longer tham Smthy's but it just seems to me that Southee and BJ's careers are at most just over half way.
And given Paddles lasted what? Nearly 20 years? ( I'll check) I'm just a little surprised.
They had this stat up on the first day - and interestingly two of the Watling/Southee catches were in the field (not behind the stumps)! So currently Smith/Hadlee has 1 more as a wicketkeeper, but one less in general
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Smith was keeper from 84 onwards (plus the 81 season), Hadlee retired in 90. So 6 years. Plus Hadlee hung around in 88 and 89 playing bugger all with injuries but wanting to get to 400.
Watling and Southee since 2012? 4 years, now maybe up to 5.
So without doing a number of tests comparison, that's not that outlandish.
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@Godder said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Southee gets a lot of edges - although Sir Paddles also got plenty of edges, he got a lot of LBWs and bowleds.
Didn't Sir Paddles get asked what his secret was once, and he responded with something like "bowl the ball at the stumps, as fast as I can". He wasn't fucking around trying for caught-behinds.
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@Kruse said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Godder said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Southee gets a lot of edges - although Sir Paddles also got plenty of edges, he got a lot of LBWs and bowleds.
Didn't Sir Paddles get asked what his secret was once, and he responded with something like "bowl the ball at the stumps, as fast as I can". He wasn't fucking around trying for caught-behinds.
TBH. This sounds like complete crap, and may be a quote misappropriated from someone else, like Waqar.
Because Hadlee was a medium fast swing bowler, of course he was trying to get caught behinds.
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It is Sunday, in the middle of January.... and fuck all have turned up to watch test match cricket at the Basin, the Basin needs to be shunted down the pecking order of test venues.
