Black Caps v England Test series
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@no-quarter said in Black Caps v England Test series:
As if I didn't already have enough man-love for Wags. I'm about ready to have his kids. What a man.
This
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@stockcar86 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
They are great tourists. I remember talking to a few during the Lions tour. Very appreciative sports fans and bottomless pits for beer
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@nzzp said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@nzzp said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mimic have been really impressed with CDG. They clearly rate him as a bowler, and he picked up some decent movement and generally bowled well as a 3/4 seamer. Batted very well too. Pity he's 31, but probably doesn't have too many miles in the legs, so could play for another few years.
Batting average of 38, bowling average of 29. That's a decent career already.
Should bat at number six in the ODI team come the CWC, he's definitely not just a pinch hitter.
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Listened to the game on Radio Sport while stuck in fun Auckland traffic. Really enjoy Jeremy Coney and Bryan Waddle doing the cricket commentary (or I just enjoy it more than being stuck in traffic). Great effort by Ish considering he wasn't picked for the first test due to him not being a batsman (Todd Astle will be waiting another several years).
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@canefan said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@virgil said in Black Caps v England Test series:
It’s par for course that a lower order black cap wins/saves a test with the bat rather than the ball..
Jerry and Chats would be proud
And ...
Astle and Morrison
Astle and Allott
Greatbtach and Cairns/Sneds
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@stockcar86 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Can you learn some new songs?
Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Anderson ...
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@sneakdefreak said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Listened to the game on Radio Sport while stuck in fun Auckland traffic. Really enjoy Jeremy Coney and Bryan Waddle doing the cricket commentary (or I just enjoy it more than being stuck in traffic). Great effort by Ish considering he wasn't picked for the first test due to him not being a batsman (Todd Astle will be waiting another several years).
Really enjoyed the Radio Sport commentary. Graham Swann popped in several times. Said some random shit, but quite amusing. Peter Fulton wasn't bad either.
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@mokey Heard Jonathan Agnew on there the other day. Guessing he jumped across from the Sky commentary box to do a couple of overs.
But the best was Coney - especially during the two rained out days at Eden Park. To kill time Waddle asked what his favourite cricket ground was and Coney then gave a riveting 30 minute story about a game he played in Pakistan. Then said the Basin was his favourite ground. Classic.
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Coney and Waddle on the radio is one of lifes great pleasures
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Amazing escape there. Despite the promise of an early finish due to bad light, England bowled the full allocation. Which meant they bowled another 50 overs after Latham's dismissal - and took a new ball. Just 4 wickets to take, the top 6 all gone and NZ with a long tail.
I like how Sodhi and Wagner were really focused on the draw - showing once again how hard it is to dismiss a batsman if they don't play shots - a lesson that wasn't learnt by 6 of the top 7.
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@kiwipie said in Black Caps v England Test series:
I like how Sodhi and Wagner were really focused on the draw - showing once again how hard it is to dismiss a batsman if they don't play shots - a lesson that wasn't learnt by 6 of the top 7.
It wasn't learnt by the English bowlers either - so much short stuff. As Swann pointed out on commentary the de Grandhomme wicket almost helped NZ because it gave England hope that a barrage of short stuff would eventually net a wicket - but instead it just meant Sodhi and Wagner very few balls to defend.
The contrast in captaincy and planning between Williamson in the last test and Root here was clear for all to see. The English bowlers and Root got a bit distracted and lacked a plan once they hit the tail - which does happen very often in these pressure 4th innings with the ball.
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@bovidae said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@hooroo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Ish that the first time we have been higher than Oz in the Rankings?
I see what you did there.
As the test rankings only started in 2003 I would say yes.
Thanks for noticing
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@sneakdefreak said in Black Caps v England Test series:
But the best was Coney - especially during the two rained out days at Eden Park. To kill time Waddle asked what his favourite cricket ground was and Coney then gave a riveting 30 minute story about a game he played in Pakistan. Then said the Basin was his favourite ground. Classic.
Coney is one of the best around. Highly rated in the UK where he is/was regularly on the BBC radio's excellent cricket commentary and also on Sky TV's team*. Think he still lives in the UK.
*To be fair, it isn't hard to shine in a commentary team which includes Ian Botham...
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Awesome job by Ish and Wag to save the game. However their heroics shouldn't paper over the fact that the rest of the team, except maybe Latham, played in an utterly brainless way where it was clear thet needed to bat for a draw. Some of those dismissals were criminal.
There still appears to be a bit of a mental weakness with this team with the way they bat and the way they capitulated against Australia in the short form.
A lot of the blame needs to be laid on the coach and captain here. If these guys are too dumb to work out for themselves that hitting the ball in the air while trying to bat out an innings is a bad idea they should be sat down and have it drilled into them before they go out to bat. -
@pukunui said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Awesome job by Ish and Wag to save the game. However their heroics shouldn't paper over the fact that the rest of the team, except maybe Latham, played in an utterly brainless way where it was clear thet needed to bat for a draw. Some of those dismissals were criminal.
There still appears to be a bit of a mental weakness with this team with the way they bat and the way they capitulated against Australia in the short form.
A lot of the blame needs to be laid on the coach and captain here. If these guys are too dumb to work out for themselves that hitting the ball in the air while trying to bat out an innings is a bad idea they should be sat down and have it drilled into them before they go out to bat.I understand what you're saying, and yet the team managed to dominate a fair bit of the test series, and bat out 4 sessions to save a game. I can't poke too much criticism at them for that. Some of the bowling was really good
