NZ v SA Test Series
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The cricinfo writers know the NZ team well ...
written today ... " It was anyone's game at the start of the day, but New Zealand have gotten themselves into a position from where anything less than a win would probably come as a surprise."
written yesterday ..."have pushed New Zealand marginally ahead in this game considering that this is a must-win game"
Cant help but think if were bowled out for 314 and SA were 321/4 that things such as "firmly on top" would have been written as opposed to "anyone's game" or "marginally ahead".
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@Bovidae said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Unfortunately the weather forecast has changed for the worst. It started raining in Hamilton very early this morning and hasn't stopped since. I'd be surprised if we get much cricket today, if at all.
Where is the 'I fuckin hate that' option, instead of the upvote?
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@Chris-B. said in NZ v SA Test Series:
@mariner4life said in NZ v SA Test Series:
These two could easily bat out another hundred overs. Draw still the favourite
Superb work to counter some very loose play by NQ!
The weather looks like total shit and if it weren't for a few pieces of extraordinarily bad luck, Faf would be averaging more than Bradman.
WTF?
Somehow my reverse jinx has gone completely wrong!
Unrain you bastard!
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Well that fucking sucks balls.
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The rain Gods owe us big time. Entertaining series fellas. Maybe next time
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@cheetahsBO certainly a much closer series than i expected, been pretty good cricket i reckon. If you told me prior to the series taht we would lose Taylor, Boult and Southee, and still be in with a big shout of winning the last test and drawing the series, i would have laughed at you.
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So who's been the best #3 in test cricket over the last couple years or so? (Start of Jan 2014)
You can also see the impact in that time Steve Smith has made as well, just in half the number of tests of Kane.
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Thats some pretty surprising reading honestly - I thought Smith would have dominated them. Also amazing that an NZ player has played more tests than many of his counterparts.
EDIT ... so if you had to choose between one of either Smith or Williamson in your team right now - which would you go for? It's hard for me to choose Kane, he's been utterly superb, but Smith has just done so well against all top opposition - I am just hypothesising here, but I assume Kane as faced Bangles, Zim where as SS hasn't. I also wonder what the results would be by country.
I think most NZ pick Kane, all oz (bar nobody) pick Smith, Poms pick Smith, Safa's maybe a mix after this tour, and all Indians to pick Virat Kohli.
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Smith played a lot at 4
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Just to show how tough batting at 3 is over a test career.
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@Virgil said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Just to show how tough batting at 3 is over a test career.
how Kane stacks up against the best of all time..Statistically the best no. 3 of all time is Dizzy Gillespie. One innings at #3, 201 not out.
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@MajorRage said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Thats some pretty surprising reading honestly - I thought Smith would have dominated them. Also amazing that an NZ player has played more tests than many of his counterparts.
EDIT ... so if you had to choose between one of either Smith or Williamson in your team right now - which would you go for? It's hard for me to choose Kane, he's been utterly superb, but Smith has just done so well against all top opposition - I am just hypothesising here, but I assume Kane as faced Bangles, Zim where as SS hasn't. I also wonder what the results would be by country.
I think most NZ pick Kane, all oz (bar nobody) pick Smith, Poms pick Smith, Safa's maybe a mix after this tour, and all Indians to pick Virat Kohli.
I love KW and Smith strikes me as a typical Oz sporting dickhead but ya can't go past a guy with a test average of 60
Poms would be rooting all the way though wouldn't they?
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I'm never a huge fan of looking at lifetime given guys like Boon & Chappell faced the Windies etc, without limits on bouncers, often (certainly Chappell) without helmets. And with normal sized bats so an edge was caught in the slips not in the stands.
If you did the same list for quicks they would all be in the 70's & 80's bar Steyn. Its like an inverse, Marshall, Holding, Hadlee, Willis, Khan, Akram, Waqar, Garner, Bishop etc
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@gollum said in NZ v SA Test Series:
I'm never a huge fan of looking at lifetime given guys like Boon & Chappell faced the Windies etc, without limits on bouncers, often (certainly Chappell) without helmets. And with normal sized bats so an edge was caught in the slips not in the stands.
If you did the same list for quicks they would all be in the 70's & 80's bar Steyn. Its like an inverse, Marshall, Holding, Hadlee, Willis, Khan, Akram, Waqar, Garner, Bishop etc
.....Ambrose, Lillee, Walsh......
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@Virgil said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Just to show how tough batting at 3 is over a test career.
how Kane stacks up against the best of all time..Sanga averaging 60 at 3 is incredible over so many matches. Dead set legend.
But looking out the window....
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