Black Caps Tour to Zimbabwe
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<p>The whole production is amateur. Poor old Jerry must be wondering what he signed up to. </p>
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<p>My favourite bit is the countdown from the director/line producer which you can hear on occasion when they come back from an ad break. </p>
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<p>yeah, you can even hear them talking in the background.. cracks me up</p> -
I heard jerry signed a contract for 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 zim dollars. I reckon if he'd bargained harder he could have got a further<br>
3,000,000,000,000,000,000 to<br>
4,000,000,000,000,000,000 zim dollars. <br><br>
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<p>Zimbabwe already 4 down after Boult grabs two in a row and brings up 150 wickets for his career.</p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">on a side note.. sri lanka win by 106 runs.. LOL</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">who wouldve guessed after being all out 117 in their first innings</p>
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<p>Was watching the match in a pub in Melbourne on Thursday night (when Mendis was batting up a storm) and my mate was saying that it would be funny if Sri Lanka came back to win the game..... some bloke next to us said that wouldn't be happening. HA!</p> -
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black caps declare 576/8<br><br>
i dont know why they didnt let rosco go for a double.. lots of time left</p></blockquote>
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<p>The boys aren't taking the foot off and are giving a minnow a genuine beat down which is great to see.</p>
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<p>No chance of any rain I hope ?</p>
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<p>Always good to see Taylor get a big score, in virtually any other era he'd be our best batsman by quite some distance, he's clear number two in this team and I suspect the pressure not being on quite as much sits fine on his shoulders.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MN5" data-cid="601823" data-time="1469924179"><p>The boys aren't taking the foot off and are giving a minnow a genuine beat down which is great to see.<br><br>
No chance of any rain I hope ?<br><br>
Always good to see Taylor get a big score, in virtually any other era he'd be our best batsman by quite some distance, he's clear number two in this team and I suspect the pressure not being on quite as much sits fine on his shoulders.</p></blockquote>
Yup, I'd love to see him boost his average up to 50 by the end of his career, with Kane somewhere in the mid-50s.<br><br>
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<p>Yup, I'd love to see him boost his average up to 50 by the end of his career, with Kane somewhere in the mid-50s.<br><br>
Well so far everyone is taking up the chance to pad their average. Guppy will be looking for a big one in the 2nd test.</p>
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<p>Rossco played the innings I wanted from Guppy.</p> -
<p>Taylor is now 32 1/2 years old and has only played 70 tests. While I'm sure he has a few more hundreds in him to go ahead of his mentor, the late great Martin Crowe, he seems destined to retire not having played anywhere near as many tests or scored as many runs as I would have expected. For a guy who's been a consistent century-maker and averaged in the early to mid 40's throughout his career, he just seems to have gotten close to the twilight of his career rather soon. But I guess if he plays another 30 tests he will have played 100 and scored in the region of 7500-8000 runs and 18 or so centuries. He'll never be the most prolific NZ century scorer as Williamson will go ahead of him, but he should briefly be our greatest run-scorer until overtaken by Williamson. The flipside is, now he's well into his 30s, he could retire from tests early, or be limited due to injury and come up well short of where I feel he should finish on these record tables.</p>
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<p>Taylor is now 32 1/2 years old and has only played 70 tests. While I'm sure he has a few more hundreds in him to go ahead of his mentor, the late great Martin Crowe, he seems destined to retire not having played anywhere near as many tests or scored as many runs as I would have expected. For a guy who's been a consistent century-maker and averaged in the early to mid 40's throughout his career, he just seems to have gotten close to the twilight of his career rather soon. But I guess if he plays another 30 tests he will have played 100 and scored in the region of 7500-8000 runs and 18 or so centuries. He'll never be the most prolific NZ century scorer as Williamson will go ahead of him, but he should briefly be our greatest run-scorer until overtaken by Williamson. The flipside is, now he's well into his 30s, he could retire from tests early, or be limited due to injury and come up well short of where I feel he should finish on these record tables.</p>
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<p>Really weird post this one, he's a guy who would be second name on the teamsheet, currently averages 47 on the dot and is 40 runs away from outright third on the list of NZ runscorers. Considering only three NZers have played 100 tests I think he's had a fantastic career and it looks in no danger of ending anytime soon. It's not his fault the Black Caps never get five test series. Based on all that I dont' see how you could have "expected" any more ? </p> -
Not weird at all. I'm not criticising him or suggesting in any way that he won't deserve his place in history for NZ. I'm just saying he suddenly seems to be over 32 and the end is possibly not that far away. It feels like he should only be halfway through his career but he's actually at least two thirds done. As opposed to the likes of Flem who it felt like was around forever and still retired slightly early for mine. In actual fact he played for NZ for 14 years. Taylor has only been playing tests since 2007 I think. And it actually feels like less, to me. The fact is, he could bow out of test cricket next year at 33 having played for only 10 years. That would feel very brief.
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Is Flem from Canterbury?
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<p>Not weird at all. I'm not criticising him or suggesting in any way that he won't deserve his place in history for NZ. I'm just saying he suddenly seems to be over 32 and the end is possibly not that far away. It feels like he should only be halfway through his career but he's actually at least two thirds done. As opposed to the likes of Flem who it felt like was around forever and still retired slightly early for mine. In actual fact he played for NZ for 14 years. Taylor has only been playing tests since 2007 I think. And it actually feels like less, to me. The fact is, he could bow out of test cricket next year at 33 having played for only 10 years. That would feel very brief.</p>
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<p>So 70 tests feels "short" ?</p>
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<p>Any sportsman in any sport could retire at any time.</p> -
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<p>So 70 tests feels "short" ?</p>
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<p>Any sportsman in any sport could retire at any time.</p>
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<p>Oh FFS it is perfectly clear what Shark meant.</p> -
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Is Flem from Canterbury?</p></blockquote>
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Struggling to dismiss the lower order again.<br><br>
They're being peppered with short stuff, but to their credit they're literally putting their bodies on the line. They'll have more bruises on their bodies than wickets they take in this series that's for sure.<br><br>
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Funnily enough, I was thinking that same thing shark.<br>
I think the difference is that Kane and Fleming started young. Both debuted at 20 iirc. Kane has been around for almost 6 years and he's still 25 (almost 26).. <br>
Taylor's been around for almost 9 years and debuted a lot later.. 23 going on 24.<br>
I think if you calculate the number of tests per year for the black caps, I think you will find that Taylor is basically almost the same as the big names such as Fleming, Kane and BMac.. <br>
Even the late MD Crowe debuted at 19. He played 13 years for his 77 tests. <br><br>
Lack of tests per year and him starting late are key reasons for this. Also it didn't help with captain-gate making him miss more tests..
