Black Caps in India
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Ashwin to Patel, OUT, now he's got a five-for in each innings! That was all a bit too easy. Tossed it up. Patel plays right across the line, trying a sweep while standing up. In effect, he ushered the ball onto his stumps
JS Patel b Ashwin 0 (2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00Fuck given: nil.
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Lost count of Ashwin's wicket haul by the end - was it 13? For 13 wickets you'd expect a biting, spitting cobra of a wicket and it wasn't. All he did was work through his variations and we got out to him. Reminiscent of when Vettori used to rip through the Bangles, float one up, float one up, fast straight one to catch him LBW.
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
The great work of 2014/15 is slowly but surely unravelling...
Yeah, for all of Baz's flaws as a player it's not so much his leadership we are missing, but the huge fucking hole he has left at number 5. So much pressure on Kane and Rosco (who is hopelessly out of form) to score the bulk of the runs with one dodgy opener and a weak as piss tail.
This series was always going to be tough, and mentally as much as anything losing the toss in every fucking test put us behind the 8 ball. Don't forget the exact same thing happened to SA recently and they are a pretty handy team.
Once the boys get home for the summer I'm confident we'll put some good perfomances on the board. I already picked up tickets to take the boy to the ODI vs Aussie on Auckland Anniversary day so I hope they'd better find some form before then!
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps in India:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
The great work of 2014/15 is slowly but surely unravelling...
Yeah, for all of Baz's flaws as a player it's not so much his leadership we are missing, but the huge fucking hole he has left at number 5. So much pressure on Kane and Rosco (who is hopelessly out of form) to score the bulk of the runs with one dodgy opener and a weak as piss tail.
This series was always going to be tough, and mentally as much as anything losing the toss in every fucking test put us behind the 8 ball. Don't forget the exact same thing happened to SA recently and they are a pretty handy team.
Once the boys get home for the summer I'm confident we'll put some good perfomances on the board. I already picked up tickets to take the boy to the ODI vs Aussie on Auckland Anniversary day so I hope they'd better find some form before then!
No excuse for the weak tail, every single bloke can hold a bat, our number 11 has a test 50 and is a very good hitter for a slight guy.
As for number 5 is it time to see what J Ryder is up to ?
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@MN5 said in Black Caps in India:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps in India:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
The great work of 2014/15 is slowly but surely unravelling...
Yeah, for all of Baz's flaws as a player it's not so much his leadership we are missing, but the huge fucking hole he has left at number 5. So much pressure on Kane and Rosco (who is hopelessly out of form) to score the bulk of the runs with one dodgy opener and a weak as piss tail.
This series was always going to be tough, and mentally as much as anything losing the toss in every fucking test put us behind the 8 ball. Don't forget the exact same thing happened to SA recently and they are a pretty handy team.
Once the boys get home for the summer I'm confident we'll put some good perfomances on the board. I already picked up tickets to take the boy to the ODI vs Aussie on Auckland Anniversary day so I hope they'd better find some form before then!
No excuse for the weak tail, every single bloke can hold a bat, our number 11 has a test 50 and is a very good hitter for a slight guy.
As for number 5 is it time to see what J Ryder is up to ?
At the same time as seeing how much of a difference Jeetan Pat... oh...
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
@MN5 said in Black Caps in India:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps in India:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
The great work of 2014/15 is slowly but surely unravelling...
Yeah, for all of Baz's flaws as a player it's not so much his leadership we are missing, but the huge fucking hole he has left at number 5. So much pressure on Kane and Rosco (who is hopelessly out of form) to score the bulk of the runs with one dodgy opener and a weak as piss tail.
This series was always going to be tough, and mentally as much as anything losing the toss in every fucking test put us behind the 8 ball. Don't forget the exact same thing happened to SA recently and they are a pretty handy team.
Once the boys get home for the summer I'm confident we'll put some good perfomances on the board. I already picked up tickets to take the boy to the ODI vs Aussie on Auckland Anniversary day so I hope they'd better find some form before then!
No excuse for the weak tail, every single bloke can hold a bat, our number 11 has a test 50 and is a very good hitter for a slight guy.
As for number 5 is it time to see what J Ryder is up to ?
At the same time as seeing how much of a difference Jeetan Pat... oh...
Well they were happy to use Luke Ronchi there and he's hardly the future.....
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According to gollum's recent reports Ryder's form has fallen away. I wouldn't want him picked again anyway.
I haven't followed the domestic stuff closely enough the last couple of years so I'm not really sure who looks like they could handle the step up, but Nicholls hasn't really impressed to date unfortunately. Hopefully we can unearth a long term prospect over summer...
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cries
Look, nobody minds when they go down fighting, but there has been a distinct LACK of fight in this batting lineup. Kane, for all his heroics, can't do it alone. On paper, this tail isn't that bad, but holy fuck, they have shown all the spine of a jellyfish in this series, and that is really disappointing. I thought those quickfire 4-5 wicket capitulations were a thing of the past, because we'd gained some mental toughness. Big giant NOPE. As someone else said, this pitch wasn't a rip snorting greenbelt, or a vicious, grooved turner. It was just our batsmen being complet fucking plonkers, and making the Indian bowlers look brilliant. -
@MN5 said in Black Caps in India:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
@MN5 said in Black Caps in India:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps in India:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
The great work of 2014/15 is slowly but surely unravelling...
Yeah, for all of Baz's flaws as a player it's not so much his leadership we are missing, but the huge fucking hole he has left at number 5. So much pressure on Kane and Rosco (who is hopelessly out of form) to score the bulk of the runs with one dodgy opener and a weak as piss tail.
This series was always going to be tough, and mentally as much as anything losing the toss in every fucking test put us behind the 8 ball. Don't forget the exact same thing happened to SA recently and they are a pretty handy team.
Once the boys get home for the summer I'm confident we'll put some good perfomances on the board. I already picked up tickets to take the boy to the ODI vs Aussie on Auckland Anniversary day so I hope they'd better find some form before then!
No excuse for the weak tail, every single bloke can hold a bat, our number 11 has a test 50 and is a very good hitter for a slight guy.
As for number 5 is it time to see what J Ryder is up to ?
At the same time as seeing how much of a difference Jeetan Pat... oh...
Well they were happy to use Luke Ronchi there and he's hardly the future.....
And are we happy with the choices that "Macca" and Hesson are making? I though Ronchi made a good go at being asked to bat five and not keep, but it highlighted that Nicholls isnt' making the step up.
On the whole, we always have to make at least one tough selection choice for the bowlers, but for the batsmen we're struggling to find six of them.
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
@MN5 said in Black Caps in India:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
@MN5 said in Black Caps in India:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps in India:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
The great work of 2014/15 is slowly but surely unravelling...
Yeah, for all of Baz's flaws as a player it's not so much his leadership we are missing, but the huge fucking hole he has left at number 5. So much pressure on Kane and Rosco (who is hopelessly out of form) to score the bulk of the runs with one dodgy opener and a weak as piss tail.
This series was always going to be tough, and mentally as much as anything losing the toss in every fucking test put us behind the 8 ball. Don't forget the exact same thing happened to SA recently and they are a pretty handy team.
Once the boys get home for the summer I'm confident we'll put some good perfomances on the board. I already picked up tickets to take the boy to the ODI vs Aussie on Auckland Anniversary day so I hope they'd better find some form before then!
No excuse for the weak tail, every single bloke can hold a bat, our number 11 has a test 50 and is a very good hitter for a slight guy.
As for number 5 is it time to see what J Ryder is up to ?
At the same time as seeing how much of a difference Jeetan Pat... oh...
Well they were happy to use Luke Ronchi there and he's hardly the future.....
And are we happy with the choices that "Macca" and Hesson are making? I though Ronchi made a good go at being asked to bat five and not keep, but it highlighted that Nicholls isnt' making the step up.
On the whole, we always have to make at least one tough selection choice for the bowlers, but for the batsmen we're struggling to find six of them
And are we happy ewith
The team insisted on playing spinners cos it supposedly suited the conditions more. They still got hammered. Perhaps they should have gone with their "strengths" ( relatively speaking ) and gone in with the seamers after all ?
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The team insisted on playing spinners cos it supposedly suited the conditions more. They still got hammered. Perhaps they should have gone with their "strengths" ( relatively speaking ) and gone in with the seamers after all ?
Would have helped if Neesham was fit before the third test I suppose, or if Sodhi would kick on...
I see Coriander Son is joining the team for the shorter format games as a batsman only.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps in India:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
@MN5 said in Black Caps in India:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
@MN5 said in Black Caps in India:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps in India:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
The great work of 2014/15 is slowly but surely unravelling...
Yeah, for all of Baz's flaws as a player it's not so much his leadership we are missing, but the huge fucking hole he has left at number 5. So much pressure on Kane and Rosco (who is hopelessly out of form) to score the bulk of the runs with one dodgy opener and a weak as piss tail.
This series was always going to be tough, and mentally as much as anything losing the toss in every fucking test put us behind the 8 ball. Don't forget the exact same thing happened to SA recently and they are a pretty handy team.
Once the boys get home for the summer I'm confident we'll put some good perfomances on the board. I already picked up tickets to take the boy to the ODI vs Aussie on Auckland Anniversary day so I hope they'd better find some form before then!
No excuse for the weak tail, every single bloke can hold a bat, our number 11 has a test 50 and is a very good hitter for a slight guy.
As for number 5 is it time to see what J Ryder is up to ?
At the same time as seeing how much of a difference Jeetan Pat... oh...
Well they were happy to use Luke Ronchi there and he's hardly the future.....
And are we happy with the choices that "Macca" and Hesson are making? I though Ronchi made a good go at being asked to bat five and not keep, but it highlighted that Nicholls isnt' making the step up.
On the whole, we always have to make at least one tough selection choice for the bowlers, but for the batsmen we're struggling to find six of them
And are we happy ewith
The team insisted on playing spinners cos it supposedly suited the conditions more. They still got hammered. Perhaps they should have gone with their "strengths" ( relatively speaking ) and gone in with the seamers after all ?
That's John Wright's theory.
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Wasn't the first test with 3 spinners NZs best test?
And considering how shit we are first test of an away series normally that effort probably deserves an OBE and double icc ranking points.
Should have stuck to his guns .....
Ok, it was mainly Wagner bouncing them out.
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The last few years, back when we were good. Has really shown me how much fun cricket can be when your team can bat. Even though I enjoyed the Southee and Boult show.
I gave this series a wide berth as a viewer. While I was interested in seeing how our spinners would go in spinning conditions but v good players of spin, it wasn't enough for me to give a f&@k .
No batting, no point.
This coming from someone who hates fuckibg batsmen.
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps in India:
You have to wonder what Craig McMillan offers to the side these days besides fuck all.
You mean this guy coaching batting against spin?
