Cricket: NZ vs Aus
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Oh Mitchell Stark you rotter! Fair dues though, fine second spell.
A good thriller movie can seize your attention and jangle with your nerves, but nothing like being 2 fer 1 and watching your two greatest batsmen guts it out for national pride!
After tea was totally captivating viewing. You couldn't miss one ball as our two battled, ( no other word for it) against an Aussie team as cock a hoop as they can be. Wore them on the body, missed jaffas and pulled us out of a deep mire. A recovery mission if ever there was, if you'll excuse the topic of the week.
Rosscoe has a free pass from my churlish frowns and cheap put downs for erternity. Coped them on the arms and ribs, used the full face diligently in defence, and then decided he might as well harass the goat, (gobby. overthetop. arse. tickler.) while he was there. And he's still there! Fucken champion!
Kane was, (was) wonderful. His dismissal is a great tribute to pock marked Mitch. He drew Kane into a false shot with one that climbed a bit quicker and Kane missed his target gap by 5 metres. Well bowled more than poor shot. Good rescue though.
Criticism of Henry boy doesn't sit well. Easily the worst way to get out, worse than backing up run outs, and he looked good before that. The least culpable dismissal.
Raval got done for pace more than anything, and is about to have a career defining series, whichever way it goes for him. Lucky they've got Burns...
Tommy looked a bit unlucky. You want your leftys tucking leg stump balls away for one so you can't condemn the choice. Hopefully they've all talked about Rosscoes bat face on defence for 2 and a bit hours.
Couldn't help but picture 2 Aussie quicks after a few hours in 50 degrees. There'll be a lot of Marnus and Smudge tomorrow.
Obligated by common custom to say I feel for Hazelwood but thank fuck he went lame 😁. Cricket gods chucked us an unlikely leveller there!
Our run rate was grouse after a bizarre lack of shots from the ockers. All very Langer like in their approach and they executed their plan to have us bat after tea perfectly. Much kudos for their patience and focus on their goal. Was weird to see those strike rates in a comfortable Aussie first innings though.
A great day's test cricket. Aus deservedly on top and an excellent example of a team trailing the game but also having played remarkably well. Australia just slightly more remarkable and a helping of extreme playing conditions deciding a lot of the progress thus far.
Great stuff both teams
So, today then. Just gotta keep the good balls out and be happy to leave the ball all day. Perfect BJ day. Ross will always score at a decent clip and Colin should never bat slowly, so the run rate will be fine. Hopefully slinky arrives to tired quicks, who'll bounce the shit out of him, and gets 10 overs of spin to find his feet. A bit unsure how Colin goes to spin, but if we get 2 hours of big Col in the middle we'll be fine (ish).
Aus need 2 good balls in 2 hours and they've probably saved the game.
It's still on a knife edge, oz obviously in the box seat, and us with the curious objective of batting time in 45 degrees in order that the sun wears away at the Aussie bodies, like the cnut did to us.
Night Test cricket, best sport with beer ever invented
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Nice write-up, Siam.
Damn - I went to bed with Ross and Kane looking settled and was hoping to wake up still two down and a long way towards saving the test, with Australia unable to bowl rotation of quicks at us.
Five down was a nasty surprise.
About the only good thing to be said about that is that I wasn't expecting Jeet or Wags to make many more than they did. Losing Tom early was a big blow though - and they're now well into our batting line-up.
We really need Ross and BJ to dig in for at least a session.
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@Siam great post and agree with most of it. Kane's wicket hurt because he and Ross and batted brilliantly to dig us out of a hole where the majority of other sides would have folded like a pack of cards. I don't think he should have been trying to run anything down to third man at that stage of the match - wait till the ball is older and the Aussie quicks are battling the heat for that.
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Here we go again........
Just need to settle and play the game at our pace! If we can get through the first two sessions we’re over halfway through the test..... -
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fuck.
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When the Black Caps were the Craps I painted the ceilings in my house wearing the Cap which looked like it had been attacked by seagulls with diarrhoea after the job and was promptly dispensed with!
This is a very different team !
I will be buying new merchandise!
There is a genuine spine throughout the squad where individuals just step up when others disappoint.Shit!
Taylor is out!
The above is just the rambling of an old dude who saw ‘85/‘86 live...........If anybody can ......
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Lyon is a significant advantage for Aus compared to Santer in conditions like this.
We've certainly had the worst of the conditions but we're getting outplayed across the park.
No build up games in Aus has not helped either.
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@No-Quarter
Total Ambush!!!
But I remain positive!! -
CdG plays some absolutely gorgeous shots.
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@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@No-Quarter
Total Ambush!!!
But I remain positive!!Yeah, I'm certain the Black Caps arrived at the ground expecting to play Sri Lanka's military medium pacers as usual.
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Hold on I was only half watching that. I didn't see any hot-spot or snicko? Why was that out?
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@No-Quarter said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@No-Quarter
Total Ambush!!!
But I remain positive!!Yeah, I'm certain the Black Caps arrived at the ground expecting to play Sri Lanka's military medium pacers as usual.
I’m starting to wonder.
