NZ Cricket
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The schedule for the 25-26 home summer has been released.
Facing OZ, England, West Indies and South Africa.
Disappointed we aren't playing more T20I's tbhJust 3 tests at home, 3...
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Frankly, this sucks. Again. We are a total minnow.
Our mens cricket season is basically done before Christmas, except for a 5 T20 tour in bloody March.
ICC events and IPL have killed our summers. I hate it. All the good players are playing overseas during the good weather, and what we are getting is a shitload of money earning T20 games that I just can't get excited about.
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Our best summer months of Jan and Feb are cricket-less for the men
16 T20I's is fucken ridiculous.Only good point worth mentioning is we do have one of the higher number of tests in the next WTC cycle with 16 in total. Clearly 90% of which must be overseas.
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The spring and autumn of cricket
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@Virgil said in NZ Cricket:
Our best summer months of Jan and Feb are cricket-less for the men
16 T20I's is fucken ridiculous.Only good point worth mentioning is we do have one of the higher number of tests in the next WTC cycle with 16 in total. Clearly 90% of which must be overseas.
Again ?
At least we’re good at getting clean sweeps in India
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@Virgil said in NZ Cricket:
Our best summer months of Jan and Feb are cricket-less for the men
16 T20I's is fucken ridiculous.Only good point worth mentioning is we do have one of the higher number of tests in the next WTC cycle with 16 in total. Clearly 90% of which must be overseas.
Making sure we can get to the final again
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Horseshit schedule, what the fuck, we obviously have no interest in actually growing the game here
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@No-Quarter said in NZ Cricket:
Horseshit schedule, what the fuck, we obviously have no interest in actually growing the game here
'the game' is T20. Everything else is apparently an anachronism.
T20 just fades into a blancmange of bland sixes that don't mean anything. It's boring. Tests are where it's at!
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@nzzp said in NZ Cricket:
@No-Quarter said in NZ Cricket:
Horseshit schedule, what the fuck, we obviously have no interest in actually growing the game here
'the game' is T20. Everything else is apparently an anachronism.
T20 just fades into a blancmange of bland sixes that don't mean anything. It's boring. Tests are where it's at!
I’ve never agreed with one of your posts more than this
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@Bovidae said in NZ Cricket:
@nzzp said in NZ Cricket:
'the game' is T20. Everything else is apparently an anachronism.
Unfortunately, the schedule is designed to be preparation for the T20 WC. And money talks.
We had no home test cricket this year. That was shit. I can't believe it's going to happen again.
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@Chris-B said in NZ Cricket:
The time is ripe for a Kerry Packer style "Supertest" rebellion - hiring all the batsmen that would rather bat like Bradman and Boycott, rather than BMac.
Fines to be issued for excessive runrates....
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/dravid-symbolised-india-s-diffidence-327778
Rahul Dravid could get a recall......I remember falling asleep watching on the couch when he came out to bat then waking up about half an hour later and he was still on 0.......
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@MN5 Hashim Amla was particularly adept at putting up the wall as well, e.g. https://www.cricket.com.au/news/3309826/amlas-record-breaking-go-slow-staves-off-defeat
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Unfortunately I can’t see it getting better anytime soon - this isn’t just a one off bad summer. Most of them are like this now or similar.
And trying to hype up the village level Super Smash for Jan/Feb? Please.
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@zedsdeadbaby said in NZ Cricket:
Unfortunately I can’t see it getting better anytime soon - this isn’t just a one off bad summer. Most of them are like this now or similar.
And trying to hype up the village level Super Smash for Jan/Feb? Please.
Can someone PLEASE tell me this is wrong ?
We haven't played a test since December last year......we're not due to play another til December THIS year.
Windies are touring, should be a good chance for a number of our guys to pad their averages ( although the Windies have unearthed a few good pace bowlers of late ) but according to this we only have a total of THREE tests this summer ?
What am I missing ?
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@MN5 said in NZ Cricket:
@zedsdeadbaby said in NZ Cricket:
Unfortunately I can’t see it getting better anytime soon - this isn’t just a one off bad summer. Most of them are like this now or similar.
And trying to hype up the village level Super Smash for Jan/Feb? Please.
Can someone PLEASE tell me this is wrong ?
We haven't played a test since December last year......we're not due to play another til December THIS year.
Windies are touring, should be a good chance for a number of our guys to pad their averages ( although the Windies have unearthed a few good pace bowlers of late ) but according to this we only have a total of THREE tests this summer ?
What am I missing ?
Windies have just rolled Australia for 180.
But yeah, we aren’t a viable commodity globally despite our results - and the ICC is a toothless tiger in dealing with T20 leagues. There should be international windows carved out (or franchise windows depending on your POV) Ala football - which is not a perfect system but international cricket risks dying if it keeps this up
