NZ v SA Test Series
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I have no doubt we will lose this test by a big margin inside a short amount of days but all you can ask in a situation like this against the best pace bowling attack in the world is that our journeymen show a bit of fight and these two have been giving us some of this in the last half hour so well done.
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Gah. Latham 8, Kane 2, Broom 0.
Again a fucking awful start. These guys need to take a long hard look at themselves (even Kane, he a magnificent player, but has been a bit shit lately) and get their act together. Latham seems to have lost the plot entirely, and Broom never really had the plot, he may have bamboozled selectors with a few good performances against Bangladesh, but the reality is he's 35 and he's the best he's ever going to be.
The last thing the Black Caps need is more dead wood at the top of the order. We are never going to win a match if 3/4 of the top 5/6 are scoring less than 10. At least Jeet R (no jinx) is putting up some fight. Nicholls MUST stay with him for the day. Otherwise he is surely in line to be dropped.
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@Mokey said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Gah. Latham 8, Kane 2, Broom 0.
Again a fucking awful start. These guys need to take a long hard look at themselves (even Kane, he a magnificent player, but has been a bit shit lately) and get their act together. Latham seems to have lost the plot entirely, and Broom never really had the plot, he may have bamboozled selectors with a few good performances against Bangladesh, but the reality is he's 35 and he's the best he's ever going to be.
The last thing the Black Caps need is more dead wood at the top of the order. We are never going to win a match if 3/4 of the top 5/6 are scoring less than 10. At least Jeet R (no jinx) is putting up some fight. Nicholls MUST stay with him for the day. Otherwise he is surely in line to be dropped.
Williamson got 130 in his last innings against this very attack !!!!!
Jesus Christ Woman, do you expect Don Bradman or something?
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Rain soon??
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@MN5 it's wellington, cant you have 4 seasons in half an hour?
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@taniwharugby said in NZ v SA Test Series:
@MN5 it's wellington, cant you have 4 seasons in half an hour?
You're thinking Melbourne. Welly will stay like this all day but turn to shit early next week...when we've already been hammered.
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@mimic said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Raval getting out to his average lol.. classic guy..
Nicholls to bang a score to keep him in the squad for lifeYou mean al la Aussie Luke? I'd rather he failed so we don't have to put up with him any longer....
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@MN5 never been to Melbourne....thought your weather was as changeable as Auckland, just colder and windier.
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@taniwharugby said in NZ v SA Test Series:
@MN5 never been to Melbourne....thought your weather was as changeable as Auckland, just colder and windier.
Na. When it's shit it stays shit. Not unlike second tier Black Cap members.
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@hydro11 Unfortunately, a similar sort of case could have been made against anyone we picked who then happened to score 0. If we'd picked Bruce, for instance, we'd be saying you can't expect a young guy on debut to step up against perhaps the world's best attack...
One big plus with Broom is that, whatever happens, we won't have damaged him for a decade of future international cricket.
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Some harsh judging there @Mokey
2017 Test match batting most runs career | ESPNcricinfo
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Going into this innings Kane was averaging 73 in 2017 (i.e. recently). Latham 64 and Nicholls 66.
All of them better than Raval 29 and Watling 33.
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To be fair this South African side did pump the Aussies with 2 easy test wins in OZ only 5 or 6 months ago.
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I'm not watching right now but I think Nicholls will be in the team for a fair while. He gives me the impression that he probably doesn't have the all round game to excel but he's good enough to exist as a test cricketer. He might average 35 or something. He has played enough good innings that he should be persisted with.
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@Virgil I don't think there's actually that much between the side the Jaaps are fielding and our top team (i.e. with Taylor and Boult in the line-up). Especially with Philander and Morkel both a bit down on their ideal pace.
Balance changes a bit if ABdV and Steyn come back into the mix.
It has been very disappointing to lose two wickets to the spinner once the early life went out of the pitch and the ball.
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@hydro11 He's playing well today.
We don't have so many riches that we can afford to discard someone who has just scored his fifth half century in 19 test innings - two against the Jaapies and one against Oz (plus two vs the Bangles).
I'm really hoping he can rack up a big score and cement his place for a while - and then carry on over the next 12 months to prove he's the man for the job.
I think it would be good to see your man, Bruce get some chances at 5 in some ODIs and find his feet that way.
Edit: harsh reality is that we'll probably need to find a replacement for Rossco in the next couple of years.
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