Cricket: NZ vs Aus

[Chris B.]

@hydro11 Corey Anderson?

I don't think he's bowling anymore and seems only to be playing short forms.

The Aussies have lost 9 for 143.

[Donsteppa]

Wagner has certainly fronted on this tour.

Steve Smith = Wagner's Bunny

[nzzp]

@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Wagner has certainly fronted on this tour.

Steve Smith = Wagner's Bunny

That's remarkable by itself. What a bowler

[Mokey]

TBH, how hard the bowlers are fighting just makes me even more pissed at the batsmen.

[kev]

@Mokey the bowlers have bowled with one short in the first test, without a spinning option, backed up from some short batting innings. Big effort. They lack the strike power of the Aussies but have bowled to their plans well.

[canefan]

@nzzp said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Wagner has certainly fronted on this tour.

Steve Smith = Wagner's Bunny

That's remarkable by itself. What a bowler

He's earned rave reviews. The only bright spot

[booboo]

Broken hand for Boult.

Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.

[Rapido]

To think, they've kept Bradman II quiet and are still going to get the 2 biggest consecutive hidings in our history.

What a waste.

[TeWaio]

If our batsmen got to face our bowlers we'd score 400+ easily.

Similarly if the Aussie batsmen had to face their bowlers they'd probably be rolled for under 200.

[Machpants]

Assistant Jordie Barrett was out easily too

[Biorealism]

@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Broken hand for Boult.

Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.

Hopefully they take the opportunity to fly over Sommerville.

[canefan]

Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all

[canefan]

@Biorealism said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Broken hand for Boult.

Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.

Hopefully they take the opportunity to fly over Sommerville.

He's a spinner. 38 is not that old to trundle in. Fuck the future, he'll be good for a couple of years easy

[Godder]

@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all

He reached 200 test wickets today, and is apparently the only bowler with 200+ test wickets to have debuted since the first ODI, not to have taken at least one ODI wicket.

[canefan]

@Godder said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all

He reached 200 test wickets today, and is apparently the only bowler with 200+ test wickets to have debuted since the first ODI, not to have taken at least one ODI wicket.

Has he ever played ODI or T20 for NZ?

[mikey07]

@canefan According to cricinfo he hasn’t

[mikey07]

[As if it couldn’t get any worse ]https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28380912/trent-boult-scg-test-fracturing-hand)

[Cyclops]

I think the most disappointing thing is that we've been undone by ourselves. A lack of patience and too many loose shots at key moments. The difference between us has been that the Aussie batsmen happily left anything not threatening alone and took what they could get. Our top 4 all went to soft shots at balls easily left. I think the combination of the occasion, the scoreboard pressure and a high quality bowling attack did that.

Also, although our bowlers performed okay (excellently in the case of Wags) I feel like we never bowled in partnerships so although we had individual bowlers looking threatening from time to time, we never managed to exert consistent pressure at both ends.

[booboo]

@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Broken hand for Boult.

Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.

What are you doing "liking" that post @KiwiMurph ?

[KiwiMurph]

@booboo was for the final sentence. He came out and bowled anyway.