Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020
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I'm wondering a bit whether Hesson had a look at what was coming up and decided to bank his "legendary" coach status.
I wrote several times about how bizarrely poor our CWC preparation was, with Australia pulling all of their stars out of the IPL to play warm-up games against us, while we left our stars in India where some were still just benchwarmers. We got lucky with the CWC draw in that we were able to play "in-tournament warm-ups" vs Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. I was more annoyed about that shit-show than the preparations for Australia - but, for both, I'd suggest NZ Cricket should give themselves an uppercut.
Stead has done a few slightly unusual things that suggest he's not quite as sharp as Hesson - but, tbh, I'm not particularly distraught about Henry over Timmy. We were never winning that game and Tim hadn't torn the Aussies apart in two goes.
You'd hope the 2 metre Peter hasn't had time to wreck all our batsmen yet, so I think I'll wait until we're back to failing against bunny teams before calling for the headsman. I'm inclined to think that things would be going a bit better in this current series if we had Boult and Ferg playing.
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@Mokey said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
The Black Caps super over is the All Blacks drop goal of those tournaments that never happened.
I think we need to start including super overs in training. This level of choke is just embarrassing.
What’s more concerning is the final over of regular time. That was diabolical.
The super over in and of itself IMO went pretty well. We scored 17 off a world class bowler. Timmy’s final two balls weren’t overly bad but weren’t good enough against class batsmen.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@Mokey said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
The Black Caps super over is the All Blacks drop goal of those tournaments that never happened.
I think we need to start including super overs in training. This level of choke is just embarrassing.
What’s more concerning is the final over of regular time. That was diabolical.
The super over in and of itself IMO went pretty well. We scored 17 off a world class bowler. Timmy’s final two balls weren’t overly bad but weren’t good enough against class batsmen.
it's not even the whole last over, the first two balls were perfect. 2 off 4 and we are home. Kane relaxes, gets cute, and gets out (it was a shit shot given a slip was in). That was a terrible error. 2 off 3 with a new guy facing is a shit ton of pressure to load up. Taylor does the right thing to get on strike. Then gets himself out. It's a 4 ball choke of epic proportions.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
What’s more concerning is the final over of regular time. That was diabolical.
Yep. Better execution from Williamson and it's a 4 and game over. It is hard to be critical after his performance but that was an anti-climatic end to a wonderful individual knock.
Seifert, or any new batsmen, was going to struggle to get some bat on those 2 deliveries but Taylor was on strike for the last ball. He could have just blocked and ran as Seifert would have made his ground at that end.
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@Bovidae said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
It is hard to be critical after his performance
i don't believe it is. When you are 95 not out, you don't get out with 3 balls left in the game. You absolutely have to finish there.
Promoting Santner and Park cricket Colin over Taylor looks even worse today than it did last night.
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@Bovidae said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@ACT-Crusader said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
What’s more concerning is the final over of regular time. That was diabolical.
Yep. Better execution from Williamson and it's a 4 and game over. It is hard to be critical after his performance but that was an anti-climatic end to a wonderful individual knock.
Seifert, or any new batsmen, was going to struggle to get some bat on those 2 deliveries but Taylor was on strike for the last ball. He could have just blocked and ran as Seifert would have made his ground at that end.
All of it was bad.
Kane had a brain explosion and got himself out in sight of the finish line
Seifert tried to hit the skin off the ball instead of trying to get some bat on it and get off strike
Taylor went for the big boundary when all we needed was a safe 2 -
Williamson is injured so will not be playing tonight.
Bruce is replacing CdG so Mitchell will come in for Williamson.
I'm guessing the batting order will look something like this:
Guptill
Munro
Seifert
Bruce
Taylor
Mitchell
Kuggelijin
Santner
Southee
Sodhi
BennettMaybe Bruce and Taylor swap places.
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Nothing on tonights game? guess we're all watching the rugby... at least an NZ team will win that...
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Sodhi with his third. Guess hes "on" tonight.
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Now Santner gets one - that'll be enough to keep him in the team for another 12 months.
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@Donsteppa said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
How do you get to be the NZ batting coach. Can any of us apply for it?
we're all too short. Clearly awarded on height.
