Chappell-Hadlee Series

[shark]

@Cyclops said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

@Chris-B said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

@shark said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

@Chris-B You make it sound like a lengthy tour. It's three games in a week, 3.5 hours away (add a couple of hours to Hobart I guess). Makes sense to have a balance in your 'spares', for sure, but one batsman covering five and five specialist steamers covering three spots is sensible. Sodhi providing cover for Santner though? Doesn't ring as true for mine.

I guess we'll see - but, I'm not convinced Sydney offers enough to the spinners to warrant us playing two of them.

Well, maybe if we're undone by spin in the first game.

I think it's likely enough that we want to have both spinners on hand just in case we want to go that way on game day. I don't think we take two spinners unless we think there's a chance we'll want to play both of them.

That's how it looks to me, too.

[Hooroo]

So we are wearing Teal.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/120152892/australia-vs-new-zealand-black-caps-back-in-teal-for-chappellhadlee-series

[Gunner]

@Hooroo have Chris Harris and Roger Twose been named in the team?

[shark]

Lochie Ferguson told me about the teal when the poor fluffybunny got stuck next to me on a plane last year. The shirts themselves are actually quite a flattering fit. If I didn't think wearing cricket supporters gear was so tragic, I'd buy one.

[KiwiMurph]

Sumo saying there will be no fans allowed for game 1 today.

[nzzp]

@KiwiMurph said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

Sumo saying there will be no fans allowed for game 1 today.

really? Crikey - any link we can look at? Was it a tweet?

[Chris B.]

@KiwiMurph That's a lot better than them canning it.

Sucks if you have tickets, but most of us won't.

[KiwiMurph]

@nzzp

[NTA]

Feel a bit sorry for the athletes NOT getting to play in packed stadia.

They will truly understand how Australian Rugby players feel.

[nzzp]

@NTA and Blues players (up to this year I hope)

[NTA]

@nzzp said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

@NTA and Blues players (up to this year I hope)

THIS IS THE YEAR!!!

[Cyclops]

I've watched a couple of european football games with no crowds and it gives off a weird, weird vibe.

[nzzp]

@NTA said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

@nzzp said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

@NTA and Blues players (up to this year I hope)

THIS IS THE YEAR!!!

no no mate,

THIS IS OUR YEAR!!!

[Bovidae]

Confirmed.

New Zealand's three-match one-day international series against Australia will be played behind closed doors, Cricket Australia (CA) announced. The Black Caps will now play two matches in an empty Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday and Sunday, with a third match against their trans- Ta$man rivals scheduled for next Friday in Hobart.

[JK]

Must be so weird for the players. I guess it will be a bit like club cricket

[mariner4life]

@JK said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

Must be so weird for the players. I guess it will be a bit like club cricket

or playing test cricket in NZ

[canefan]

@mariner4life said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

@JK said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

Must be so weird for the players. I guess it will be a bit like club cricket

or playing test cricket in NZ

Or in Sharjah

[Virgil]

Can’t they have a sound track of applause and heckling through the sound system?

Make it kiwi biased so the odd Warner is a piston wristed gibbon comes through on a regular basis

[Rapido]

@Virgil said in Chappell-Hadlee Series:

Can’t they have a sound track of applause and heckling through the sound system?

Make it kiwi biased so the odd Warner is a piston wristed gibbon comes through on a regular basis

Just get the most annoying person you know to play with your stereo for 7 hours. Will like being in the actual stadium.

[Bovidae]

Kane's luck doesn't follow him when he leaves NZ. Aust wins the toss and surprise, surprise, will bat.