New Zealand v West Indies
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Disappointing end for Joseph. Just couldn’t middle them. I actually wanted him to get a hundred because he helped bring some life back into the match.
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Easy and predictable win in the end.
Just magnificent from our little master but some great support from everyone else too. Young will be disappointed with his efforts but is there anything else negative to say in all honesty ?
I hope the Windies are more competitive in Welly, I want to go down on Sunday with the girl and my sons. Would be nice if the match was still going.
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@MN5 the victory is was very good, the inability to quickly strike the final blow was a bit worrying and is something to work on. We are ranked 2nd & they are 8th, lapses that allow partnerships like that will be punished far more by better teams.
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@Stag said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@MN5 the victory is was very good, the inability to quickly strike the final blow was a bit worrying and is something to work on. We are ranked 2nd & they are 8th, lapses that allow partnerships like that will be punished far more by better teams.
Last I checked they won by an innings and 134 runs. The match still has pretty much two days left.
How quick do you expect, seriously ?
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100 in a losing effort. Cricket's pinnacle
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@mariner4life said in New Zealand v West Indies:
100 in a losing effort. Cricket's pinnacle
only if you run out some other bastard doing it
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@mariner4life said in New Zealand v West Indies:
100 in a losing effort. Cricket's pinnacle
There's no greater view into a man's soul as to how he reacts to a team sport truism that states: "I'd rather get a duck in a winning team than a hundred in a losing one"
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@mariner4life man of the match right there!
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@Stag said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@MN5 the victory is was very good, the inability to quickly strike the final blow was a bit worrying and is something to work on. We are ranked 2nd & they are 8th, lapses that allow partnerships like that will be punished far more by better teams.
And when we were ranked lower and playing higher ranked sides, we used to do the same thing. Vettori made a lot more runs than more favoured sides would’ve liked!
I think you’re being a little harsh. The great thing about cricket is all the variables that even the best laid out plans and execution by the bowlers, they can sometimes take 2 overs or 20 overs to get a breakthrough depending on conditions, umpiring, batsmen, fielding...
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@ACT-Crusader said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@Stag said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@MN5 the victory is was very good, the inability to quickly strike the final blow was a bit worrying and is something to work on. We are ranked 2nd & they are 8th, lapses that allow partnerships like that will be punished far more by better teams.
And when we were ranked lower and playing higher ranked sides, we used to do the same thing. Vettori made a lot more runs than more favoured sides would’ve liked!
I think you’re being a little harsh. The great thing about cricket is all the variables that even the best laid out plans and execution by the bowlers, they can sometimes take 2 overs or 20 overs to get a breakthrough depending on conditions, umpiring, batsmen, fielding...
Vettori and/or McCullum got us some respectability on loads of occasions.
But the team still got a hiding just as the Windies have.
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@MN5 said in New Zealand v West Indies:
Astles 222 in a losing effort will never be beat. I lay on the couch still drunk from the night before and watched the entire innings. Just brilliant stuff.
Nathan Astle Nathan Astle
You neeeaaaarly won the match
You may have scored two hundred
But you droooooped
The vital catchThe barmy army can be quality
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@mariner4life said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@MN5 said in New Zealand v West Indies:
Astles 222 in a losing effort will never be beat. I lay on the couch still drunk from the night before and watched the entire innings. Just brilliant stuff.
Nathan Astle Nathan Astle
You neeeaaaarly won the match
You may have scored two hundred
But you droooooped
The vital catchThe barmy army can be quality
It's certainly a bit more clever and witty than "Hadlees a piston wristed gibbon"
@NTA shit it must be embarrassing to be Australian sometimes.
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@MN5 do you think Kiwi crowds would come up with anything better than Aussies?
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@Crazy-Horse probably wouldn't go to the trouble of printing stickers. ( they did, I was there)
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@Crazy-Horse said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@MN5 do you think Kiwi crowds would come up with anything better than Aussies?
Not sure but I thought I’d make the dig anyway seeing as @Virgil hasn’t logged on in awhile
