Black Caps v South Africa
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How rubbish international T20 is currently will be perfectly illustrated tomorrow night when Aus host Sri Lanka. Sure, half the first choice Aussie team is in India preparing for the first test next week, but lets play a fucking 3-mach T20 series against someone who is in the country for no other reason.
And because Sri Lanka are pretty fucking rubbish at the moment, they'll probably get humped by Ben Dunk and a bunch of other blokes not really good enough.
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They could look at getting India to actually playing some fucking games away from home.
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@Virgil far be it for me to defend anything Indian cricket, but according to Cricinfo, they are on the road as much as anyone. Most countries over the past couple of years have a split of tests home/away of around 50%. Except us, who play away far more often.
India just don't play as many tests as everyone else, in fact over the past couple of years, they have only played as many as we have.
It just seems they are on a bit of a home streak at the moment. I assume during the year they will be off on tour again.
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Nineteen NZ players up for IPL auction on 20 Feb. According to my rough conversions of base price...
~NZ$300K
Boult~NZ$200K
Anderson
Elliott~NZ$100K
Guptill
Taylor
Henry
Munro
Neesham
Santner
Ferguson~NZ$60K
Sodhi
Broom
Bruce
Devcich
de Grandhomme
Ryder
Wheeler
N. McCullum~NZ$20K
PhillipsI think there's only 29 international player spots available across the franchises and 319 players on the block (though quite a few Indians) so most of our guys are likely to miss out. ESPN articles are talking up the chances of Anderson, Munro, de Grandhomme and Boult. Lots of teams looking for all rounders apparently.
Philips will be cursing the weather, which might deprive him a chance to play a blinding innings.
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@Chris-B. said in Black Caps v South Africa:
Nineteen NZ players up for IPL auction on 20 Feb. According to my rough conversions of base price...
~NZ$300K
Boult~NZ$200K
Anderson
Elliott~NZ$100K
Guptill
Taylor
Henry
Munro
Neesham
Santner
Ferguson~NZ$60K
Sodhi
Broom
Bruce
Devcich
de Grandhomme
Ryder
Wheeler
N. McCullum~NZ$20K
PhillipsVirgil $178.00
I think there's only 29 international player spots available across the franchises and 319 players on the block (though quite a few Indians) so most of our guys are likely to miss out. ESPN articles are talking up the chances of Anderson, Munro, de Grandhomme and Boult. Lots of teams looking for all rounders apparently.
Philips will be cursing the weather, which might deprive him a chance to play a blinding innings.
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Some Aussies are on unreal money.
Watson still gets $1.85M for his 6 weeks work. Faulkner gets $1.45, which is more than both Smith and Warner on about $1.1 each.
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Understand why Roscoe is so keen to be picked again.
Boult would be a great buy if I owned an ipl franchise. Guppy as well, the rest meh
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@mariner4life said in Black Caps v South Africa:
Some Aussies are on unreal money.
Watson still gets $1.85M for his 6 weeks work. Faulkner gets $1.45, which is more than both Smith and Warner on about $1.1 each.
http://www.totalsportek.com/money/richest-cricketers/
Wee Davy's doing alright though. Not as good as Kohli and Dhoni, but better than the other Aussies.
And just to really make your day....
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Excellent write up here at cricinfo regarding the ipl teams with their squads leading into the auction.
IPL player auction - What to expect in 2017?
ESPNcricinfo looks at how the teams stand and whom they might buy at the tenth IPL player auction, in Bangalore on February 20
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@mariner4life said in Black Caps v South Africa:
Some Aussies are on unreal money.
Watson still gets $1.85M for his 6 weeks work. Faulkner gets $1.45, which is more than both Smith and Warner on about $1.1 each.
Christ as if I didn't dislike Watto enough.....
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That article about improving test cricket seem bizarre to me. Especially the bit about the toss. They firstly suggest that we should get rid of the toss to prevent home baked pitches. Then to back up their point they point out that England won a lot of tosses in India and lost heaps. I think that just proves their point is wrong.
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http://www.metservice.com/towns-cities/auckland/auckland-central
it may ease by then. They'll probalby only need an hour or two to get ready afte rthat. Eden Park drains really well... just have to get the rain to stop.
also, weather forecasting here in AUckland is a bit like the SANZAAR judiciary
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@JK said in Black Caps v South Africa:
Yeah think should dry up from 6ish but its been pissing down this morning and heaviest rain is forecast from 12 through 4pm
I'm calling that it will be all done. the Metservice forecast is from 4am -- I prefer the MetVuw that shows little to no rain in the evening.
you heard it here first folks
Optimism aboundsedit: I mean that there will be play, possibly a reduced match, but still play
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Shows the difference in quality of grounds between Napier and Eden Park. Here in Auckland we have had 24 hours of rain, overnight and early this morning it fair bucketed down.
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