Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka
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@Gunner or perhaps Sri Lanka aren’t as bad as their ranking suggests, especially on these smaller ovals.
It was a good contest and both teams came under pressure. Good to get the win.
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@Gunner said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
They fucking caught one!!!!!
Well batted Perera.
BCs need to take a long hard look at their bowling and fielding, that was so far below par it wasn’t funny.
I thought Sodhi bowled really well. A huge reason for why we had them on the ropes at 128/7.
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@mimic said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@Gunner said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
They fucking caught one!!!!!
Well batted Perera.
BCs need to take a long hard look at their bowling and fielding, that was so far below par it wasn’t funny.
I thought Sodhi bowled really well. A huge reason for why we had them on the ropes at 128/7.
Very true, I forgot about him after all the carnage I just witnessed...
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Note to Tim Fucking Southee.
The Fucking Defintion of Fucking Insanity is Fucking Doing the Same Fucking Thing Over and Fucking Over and expecting a different Fucking result you Fucking DUMB fluffybunny.
And YES note the Fucking Capital Letters you FUCKING IDIOT.
4, four, FOUR! Fucking sixes off full Fucking tosses before you worked it out you FUCKING RETARD.
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@kev said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@Damo that’s just stupid. It’s his first game of one day cricket this season. These are the games where you want bowlers trying to bowl length balls in pressure situations.
And keep trying them when the opposition is eating them for breakfast?
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@Siam said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@Godder that's like excusing hookers who can't throw into a lineout.
The only plausible answer is:
Practice till you fucking can! It's your job, what you're paid well to do!
Or halfbacks who can't pass or commentate
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@kev said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@Damo that’s just stupid. It’s his first game of one day cricket this season. These are the games where you want bowlers trying to bowl length balls in pressure situations.
If this was a one off then that would be a reasonable comment.
However he's been rubbish in ODI's for the last couple of seasons now. He doesn't take wickets consistently at the top of the innings, and he doesn't bowl well at the death.
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@Siam If it were that easy, everyone would do it, but very bowlers can drop the ball on the penny every ball, and even those who can get mauled by batsmen who move out of their ground a little, giving them the ability to move forward or back as the ball is being bowled, changing the length to a full toss or half volley.
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@Godder 4 identical full tosses all hit for 6
And no bowler can land it on a penny every ball so that's a pointless standard
We're talking about achievable skill acquisition, difficult yes, but being reliably able to bowl a yorker has proven to be a handy tool of the profession
Southee has to do better than that
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@Damo said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@kev said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@Damo that’s just stupid. It’s his first game of one day cricket this season. These are the games where you want bowlers trying to bowl length balls in pressure situations.
If this was a one off then that would be a reasonable comment.
However he's been rubbish in ODI's for the last couple of seasons now. He doesn't take wickets consistently at the top of the innings, and he doesn't bowl well at the death.
Interesting to see his performances in chart form. Looks fairly consistent at first glance but avg has crept up from 30 to 35 and the wicket taking chart has a lot of gaps since 2015 with lower counts as well.
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@Siam So achievable that almost no other bowlers from any country can do it or have ever been able to do it? What is it about reliably bowling yorkers that isn't dropping it on a penny? Yorkers have to be of very specific line and length to be useful, and anything much outside that is prone to being smacked or called wide - the margin for error is very small. Also, as noted, batsmen can change the line and length by moving as the ball is being bowled, and again, the margins are small - how does that factor into your thinking?
