Black Caps vs Sri Lanka
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
Chapman and extras saving us from being bowled out for 26!
Young, Ravindra, Mitchell, Latham, Phillips and Santner collectively contributing 5 runs off the bat.
We could have picked 6 random ferners and not done much worse! Anyone specialise on the nick for 4?!!
I was always good at a left handed cross bat slog with non existent foot movement. It got me many a six ( against shit bowling ideally )
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
Chapman and extras saving us from being bowled out for 26!
Young, Ravindra, Mitchell, Latham, Phillips and Santner collectively contributing 5 runs off the bat.
We could have picked 6 random ferners and not done much worse! Anyone specialise on the nick for 4?!!
Ravindra and Phillips get a pass because those were two incredible deliveries that are wickets 99 times our of 100, although I don't remember the last time Phillips looked like he was in any kind of form. The time off between now and the Pakistan tour might be good for him if he can hold his spot.
Mitchell played a lazy shot but also undone slightly by the movement. Latham extremely disappointed and his place in the squad in danger I think.
I've always thought Santner is overrated as a batter. Slightly unusually, I think he's a better bat in tests than in short ball stuff. He's well organised and fair sound defensively so is a tough wicket, but in short form he just really struggles to generate any kind of strike rate.
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Big win.
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@Bovidae said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
@MN5 said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
Nice over from Matt Henry.
McMillan talking him up, and then he gets out. Classic commentators curse.
I’m not sure those kind of jinxes are applicable when the team is this fucked.
Chapman may as well have a swing and shoot for the ton
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
@Bones said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
Comforting to see normality back with the bowlers batting better than most of the batsmen.
I bet you loved it when Vettori was captain
I doubt even Vettori managed to get the bowlers to score 15x more than the total of every batsman bar one.
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@Bones said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
@MN5 said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
@Bones said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
Comforting to see normality back with the bowlers batting better than most of the batsmen.
I bet you loved it when Vettori was captain
I doubt even Vettori managed to get the bowlers to score 15x more than the total of every batsman bar one.
I reckon him and McCullum would have done that with interest back in the dark days of the mid 2000s
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@Cyclops said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
I don't remember the last time Phillips looked like he was in any kind of form. The time off between now and the Pakistan tour might be good for him if he can hold his spot.
NZ sporting ethos these days dictates that you can only be replaced if injured, so he will be safe.
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@Snowy said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
@Cyclops said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
I don't remember the last time Phillips looked like he was in any kind of form. The time off between now and the Pakistan tour might be good for him if he can hold his spot.
NZ sporting ethos these days dictates that you can only be replaced if injured, so he will be safe.
Either that or have a child
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@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
@Chris said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:
@Cyclops
Latham in no danger of losing his spot in the squad he will be named tomorrow.Which is part of the problem
Along with Conway and Phillips selected again a waste of space in the squad.
Sears selected off the back of no game time.
Duffy not selected,Leaving Hay out the best WK and would add more than Conway or Latham with the bat.
I could go on frustrating as hell to see.
