Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final
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Yes, finally!
Manufactured a win inside 4 days with skill, strategy and faith in each other.
An indisputable performance. So happy for the fellas.
Got through the whole day with 2am coffees and lots of pacing around.
Foxtel ditched the coverage immediately before the team handshakes, I crashed and awoke thinking of a dream I might've had.
No dream!
Kane, my MoM. Batting and captaincy. But then he would have given it to Kyle anyway
Fairytale finish
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I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my wife's snoring for honking like a goose and telling me to get up and watch the cricket at 30 odd for 2. Actually it was at 30 for 0 when it woke me up, 30 odd for 2 when I decided t get up. Clearly I needed to get down to the lounge to stop the rot.
I can't take all the credit though, Earlier I had given up in a flounce when Southee dropped Pant. I'm a very bad watcher of tense NZ cricket, not used to high stakes as a fan.
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Delighted this team have won a big trophy to cap off this generation's achievements of the last 7 to 8 years.
I still feel it will be generational thing rather than a step-change that NZ will now always produce good players, so very important that we took one of the chances this generation's teams have worked themselves into positions to final in. Will make subsequent finals a little less daunting for this generation and those to follow.
India will get a lot more chances, I'd expect them to be in the final again in 2 years. Let alone various ICC ball tournaments.
But commiserations to them, as Virat loves test cricket, I feel they are currently a force for good.
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i would like to start this presentation by acknowledging Tim Paine
Tim, i am going to bend over, you get on your knees, lean forward, and suck a fart directly from my ass. And then turn your head, and with that fart in your mouth, pash Mark Nicholas. And you two just share that fart between you.
All the haters, the doubters, the there-by-default, vaguaries-of-the-draw piston wristed gibbons can get on their knees and choke on a hard piece of kiwi glory
Because right now, we are the best cricketing nation on earth. We won your fucking test tournament. We had the ODI World Cup stolen off us, and oh look, in the hit and giggle stuff we are top 3 as well. You keep disrespecting us, you keep giving us 2 test "tours" at the start or end of the summer. you keep deluding yourself that India, England and Australia deserve to be somewhere we are not. None of that matters, because, as the old saying goes, runs on the board matter. And we have considerably more than you.
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Well none of us know what goes on in the inner circle I guess but yeah, it’ll be all about BJ at the moment I’d assume
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@mn5 said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
Fuck the shits and giggle 50 over stuff of 2019. This is, and will always be, the most important version of the game…..and guess what ?
We’re officially the best. God damn I’m proud of what these guys have just done.
I will never forget 2019 and I’m sure the team won’t either. But this has gone some way to exorcising those demons
@junior said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@mn5 said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
Fuck the shits and giggle 50 over stuff of 2019. This is, and will always be, the most important version of the game…..and guess what ?
We’re officially the best. God damn I’m proud of what these guys have just done.
I will never forget 2019 and I’m sure the team won’t either. But this has gone some way to exorcising those demons
Funnily enough, I have no demons at all about that.
I've simply refused to concede that we lost a Cricket World Cup to book-keeping.
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@mn5 said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@synicbast said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
This still makes me a bit sad though
What a way to go out though. Part of me wonders if Rossco is next ?
I want him to retire in front of a home crowd with his family present.
@synicbast said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@mn5 said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@synicbast said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
This still makes me a bit sad though
What a way to go out though. Part of me wonders if Rossco is next ?
I want him to retire in front of a home crowd with his family present.
It will be hard to top going out like this
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Kane's press conference. All class of course:
https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2177892
A couple of vids, winning runs and highlights ( in Hindi)
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How many of India's ODI World Cup wins have been in a best of 3 final series...
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How many of India's ODI World Cup wins have been in a best of 3 final series...
@virgil Virat, i actually really like you
but you can jump in the sea with the other piston wristed gibbons i have already pointed out. You knew the rules fluffybunny, we horse-whipped you by 8 wickets despite 95% of the test being ruined by English weather.
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@virgil Virat, i actually really like you
but you can jump in the sea with the other piston wristed gibbons i have already pointed out. You knew the rules fluffybunny, we horse-whipped you by 8 wickets despite 95% of the test being ruined by English weather.
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@chris-b said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@mariner4life I like him too.
To be fair, he did actually say this beforehand.
Nice gif!
it was the first thing that popped in to my head! god i love that movie
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@chris-b said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@mariner4life I like him too.
To be fair, he did actually say this beforehand.
Nice gif!
it was the first thing that popped in to my head! god i love that movie
@mariner4life said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@chris-b said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@mariner4life I like him too.
To be fair, he did actually say this beforehand.
Nice gif!
it was the first thing that popped in to my head! god i love that movie
Bill and Ted isnt it?
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Good article
Dig deep, get down and dirty - no one does it better than New Zealand https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/wtc-final-ind-vs-nz-it-was-a-day-for-digging-deep-and-no-one-does-it-better-than-new-zealand-1267706
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A better representation of Kohli, speaking after the match:
Virat Kohli: "First up, big congratulations to Kane and the whole team. They showed great consistency and heart to pull out a result in just over three days, sticking to their processes to put us under pressure. They deserved the win. The first day got washed out, and when play resumed it was difficult to get any momentum. We lost only three wickets, but we could have got more runs if play had gone on without the interruptions. Today, the Kiwi bowlers executed their plans to perfection and pushed us back, and we were probably 30 or 40 runs short. [On not picking four quicks:] You need to have a fast-bowling allrounder for that. We've been successful with this combination in different conditions. We thought this was our best combination, and we had batting depth as well, and if there was more game time, the spinners would have come into the game more as well. [Jamieson] is a quality cricketer. He hits really good areas with the ball and he's a gutsy batsman as well. He's had a great game and thoroughly deserved to be Man of the Match. It's great for the game, the more the Test format is given importance, and the Test format is the heartbeat of the international format. We're looking forward to the long summer ahead. We've got the squad and the quality to do something special."
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A better representation of Kohli, speaking after the match:
Virat Kohli: "First up, big congratulations to Kane and the whole team. They showed great consistency and heart to pull out a result in just over three days, sticking to their processes to put us under pressure. They deserved the win. The first day got washed out, and when play resumed it was difficult to get any momentum. We lost only three wickets, but we could have got more runs if play had gone on without the interruptions. Today, the Kiwi bowlers executed their plans to perfection and pushed us back, and we were probably 30 or 40 runs short. [On not picking four quicks:] You need to have a fast-bowling allrounder for that. We've been successful with this combination in different conditions. We thought this was our best combination, and we had batting depth as well, and if there was more game time, the spinners would have come into the game more as well. [Jamieson] is a quality cricketer. He hits really good areas with the ball and he's a gutsy batsman as well. He's had a great game and thoroughly deserved to be Man of the Match. It's great for the game, the more the Test format is given importance, and the Test format is the heartbeat of the international format. We're looking forward to the long summer ahead. We've got the squad and the quality to do something special."
