Black Caps v South Africa
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A bit of joy at the end as Morris last over gets smashed and we get to 207.
Only thing I hope is that that isn't indicative that the pitch suddenly started to play nicely. If it stays tacky and holding, maybe that will be more foreign to the SA batsmen than us.
Southee giving a bit of credence to my theory that we possibly should promote him to have a hit when we're a wicket or two more down than we want and should be starting the charge, but can't. He apparently plays exactly the same regardless of the position of the game, so he either comes off or he doesn't.
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What am I missing? The commentators are talking like we're in front? Surely in the T20 age that's like 60 too short?
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@mariner4life said in Black Caps v South Africa:
What am I missing? The commentators are talking like we're in front? Surely in the T20 age that's like 60 too short?
Yeah it's only de kock, Amla and AB chasing our score. No doubt we will roll them within 20 overs for an easy win
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@Gunner said in Black Caps v South Africa:
Staring down the barrel of our 2nd rogering in 3 days here. Not good.
It's a good SA side. No shame in losing. Shame in getting rogered.
Having said that, how the hell did Santner not get an edge the way he is bowling. He's unplayable at the moment
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v South Africa:
Hang on a minute...
Hang on another minute...
From four down to five down.
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@akan004 said in Black Caps v South Africa:
Instead of bowling or trying to bowl six yorkers at the end, I really have no idea what Kane and Southee were trying to do. A major fuck up.
He was trying to bowl slower balls which are quite effective. Boult bowled some nice yorkers but he also got hit for six and Southee doesn't have Boult's control.
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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$20K
PhillipsI think there's only 29 international player spots available across the franchises and 319 players on the block (though quite a few Indians) so most of our guys are likely to miss out. ESPN articles are talking up the chances of Anderson, Munro, de Grandhomme and Boult. Lots of teams looking for all rounders apparently.
Philips will be cursing the weather, which might deprive him a chance to play a blinding innings.
Boult goes for way over his reserve - slightly over a million NZ$. Corey Anderson and Matt Henry go for their reserve prices. No-one buys Guppy, Rossco, Sodhi or Phillips.
I'm never sure about all the variables in play, but an Afghani spinner goes for $800K and no-one bids on Imran Tahir with a NZ$100K reserve?
Flem pulls out the chequebook for his Christchurch mate Ben Stokes - pays more than NZ$3 million for him. And Danny V. gets in on the act, paying the highest ever price for a bowler - $2.5 million for some English bloke called Tymal Mills - who probably won't want to be Kyle Mills in disguise.
Lots of other NZers in the second phase of the sale and then a repercharge for those who missed out.
