Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final

rotated

@majorrage said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

The Indian woman commentator is doing her absolute best to convince we going to fail under scoreboard pressure. Gotta start scoring, run rate creeping up, need to start taking some chances ...

And it's working a treat on me.

If the scoreboard pressure doesn't get them we could see a collapse as our minnow batsman are overawed being in the very presence of their boyhood heroes and all time legends.

junior

@rotated said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

@majorrage said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

The Indian woman commentator is doing her absolute best to convince we going to fail under scoreboard pressure. Gotta start scoring, run rate creeping up, need to start taking some chances ...

And it's working a treat on me.

If the scoreboard pressure doesn't get them we could see a collapse as our minnow batsman are overawed being in the very presence of their boyhood heroes and all time legends.

This absolutely going to peter out into a draw unless we start playing some shots, which only opens up opportunities for their bowlers

MajorRage

@rotated Yeah, very true.

A couple of good spin playing batsmen playing one of the worlds best ever spinners. Apparently.

MajorRage

@junior you've obviously turned off. 14 runs added in the last two overs. 79 to get off around 28 overs I think.

junior

@majorrage said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

@junior you've obviously turned off. 14 runs added in the last two overs.

And I'll stay turned off if this is what it will result in!

ARHS

Enthralling. If we get there it is possible the highlight of Henry Nicholls career will become that marvellous catch that marked the turnaround. I have faith but am nervous regardless.

MajorRage

Boys playing a few more shots now.

If I keep updating, and don't turn the TV off, and don't have the drink of water I'm gasping for .... could well be 450 posts from me in the next 90 minutes if it helps.

ARHS

The fast outfield is our friend. And Shami can't go on forever....

Bones

@majorrage said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

The Indian woman commentator is doing her absolute best to convince we going to fail under scoreboard pressure. Gotta start scoring, run rate creeping up, need to start taking some chances ...

And it's working a treat on me.

I thought she was British...

MajorRage

I'm so fucking thirsty. This is driving me nuts.

Wife about to get back from school run with the kids. Could be about to get rough.

MajorRage

@bones She sounds british but if you listen to what she says, there's no doubt she's part of the Indian worship club.

Has been taken off now though, I guess as we've scored a few runs, her scoreboard pressure commentary has lost some of its lustre.

scribe

How gutted must Macca be? Finished his last comms stint just before, and straight off to the airport to fly home.

Bones

@majorrage oh it's not even the hot one from last year, who at least could have been mistaken for Indian.

sparky

Test Match Cricket is super exciting, super tense sport. Who knew?

sparky

84-2. 55 to win. 23 overs left. Weather and light fine.

Bones

@majorrage if it's at all of interest, which anything else is right now....it's Ebony-Jewel Cora-Lee Camellia Rosamond Rainford-Brent.

Not Isa Guha who I thought it was.

rotated

@sparky said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

Test Match Cricket is super exciting, super tense sport. Who knew?

It is tense for us because it cant only be butchered from here but I wonder how it is for the neutral. The win predictor is 96% to 2% and if the situation was reversed I would have very little hope avoiding victory even with our seamers.

nzzp

wow, that's a terrible drop. Could have gone to the helmet as well.

Pujara the culprit

sparky

Taylor dropped at first slip.

MajorRage

Sorry guys, its because my family came home. I maintained my same standing spot though, which clearly caused the drop.

Thank me later.

The Silver Fern

Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final