NZ v Australia Test #2
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<p>BMac - what a way to finish your test career! Nothing wrong with his eye, shame his back his buggered or he'd have a year or two left in him yet.</p>
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<p>Awesome stuff though, one of crickets's most destructive players when its his day. We'll miss him as a player and a bloke.</p> -
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<p>Wow. So glad I stayed up for this. Missus came in to tell me to come to bed and ended up asleep in my lap on the couch....got a bit of a fright when the ton came up</p>
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<p>I got a chubby watching that too</p> -
Anderson says to hell with blocking out Lyon, I'll just wait for the bad ball and smack the shit out of it.
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50 from 39 balls for Corey.
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Um what the fuck? I go out we're 3 for nothing off a thousand. I come home and this has happened? Cricket gods love them some Baz
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There's some agricultural shit being played out there
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This session so far: 1 wicket, 164 runs from 17 overs at 9.25 an over.<br><br>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="No Quarter" data-cid="559698" data-time="1455928032"><p>Anderson belts a 6. Time for these two to counter punch our way up to 300 ;)</p></blockquote>
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<p>Cricket is a fucking funny game sometimes.</p>
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<p>In the first test we cried that NZ batsmen didn't respect their wickets, weren't patient enough, played at too many balls they should have left.</p>
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<p>Williamson, Latham and Nicholls obviously take note of this, and try and grind through a tough period. They play the classical, gritty innings that we were all craving in the first test, and all lose their wickets to decent balls and great catches on a seaming deck.</p>
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<p>Then McCullum comes in and throws all of this out the window, swinging like a dunny door. Gets a few lucky edges, catch off a no-ball and he's away. Against all advice or technique, he has gone a long way to winning the game for the Black Caps.</p>
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<p>Poor old Kane would be spewing.</p>
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Baz goes for 145 from 79 balls.<br><br>
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<p>Cricket is a fucking funny game sometimes.</p>
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<p>In the first test we cried that NZ batsmen didn't respect their wickets, weren't patient enough, played at too many balls they should have left.</p>
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<p>Williamson, Latham and Nicholls obviously take note of this, and try and grind through a tough period. They play the classical, gritty innings that we were all craving in the first test, and all lose their wickets to decent balls and great catches on a seaming deck.</p>
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<p>Then McCullum comes in and throws all of this out the window, swinging like a dunny door. Gets a few lucky edges, catch off a no-ball and he's away. Against all advice or technique, he has gone a long way to winning the game for the Black Caps.</p>
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<p>Poor old Kane would be spewing.</p>
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<p>McCullum played that fantastic innings because that is the only way he can play. He could have been out 2nd ball or the ball before lunch or the no-ball. He wasn't out and he took advantage. If McCullum had tried to grind it wouldn't have worked because McCullum doesn't have a defensive game anymore. Williamson and Latham are both proper cricketers who should be aiming to build innings because they have the techniques to do it. If Kane went for a golden duck then McCullum comes out earlier when the ball is doing more and maybe gets a duck himself.</p>
