Black Caps v Australia

Rapido

@Canes4life said in Black Caps v Australia:

@Rapido who is a bowler in NZ that would come in for Southee if he was all of sudden jettisoned from the team?

All of a sudden. So who is ready right here, right now.

The obvious, but boring, answer would be the 12th man, Santner.

For a seam bowler. It would be Duffy, Smith or Tickner. Who have the overs and the performances this season, and are robust.

Smith has never played overseas yet, so I reckon he'll need that first before the selectors seriously look to pick him for test level (he's missed all away 'A" tours by being injured at wrong times). So either Duffy as a like-for-like, or Tickner as the old ball bowler and promote one of O'Rourke or Kuggeleijn to new-ball bowler.

Tickner gets laughed off based on his T20 stuff that gets televised, but he's got the attributes to bowl well with an old ball if he sticks to simple(ish) plans (not asked to wagnerball it). Even doing an MN5 style paint by numbers stats look. His 12 wickets in 3 tests as an old ball bowler brings much more to the table than Southee's recent output of 7 wickets in his last 5 tests as a new-ball bowler.

I like Fisher, Foulkes and Lister a lot. But don't think they're serious contenders yet due to robustness (Lister and FIsher) while Foulkes is too green. we could pick Foulkes now and quite probably get a bowler better than Southee, but leave him another year to sort his batting and we potentially get a test allrounder, whihc is worth the wait. Don't want to do a Doug Bracewell on him where he is still learning his FC batting at test level.

Rapido

The 10 overs at the end of the day with the second new ball and the 10 overs at the start of day 2 - are the moments when having a 'specialist captain' as one of your new ball bowlers really hurts.

Cyclops

I don't hate getting through a few overs here. The pitch is going to improve through the day. What we don't want is too many more runs. Ideally we'd reel off 10 or so maidens and then get the last wicket.

No Quarter

Southee getting smacked down the ground for 4 by Hazlewood sums his performance up really. Not worrying any of their players right down to 11.

NTA

Cam Green appears to be in a mood

MN5

Fuck this is a frustrating partnership as I knew it would be when we didn’t get them overnight…..

Over 300 is a massive psychological boost, especially with their bowling line up and our batting line up.

Rapido

NZ have lost this match.

NTA

I like how the NZ attack have played Hazlewood back into form

No Quarter

Disastrous start to the day, Aus well on top now

MN5

@Rapido said in Black Caps v Australia:

NZ have lost this match.

Na we’re fine, Ravindra is in form

MN5

@NTA said in Black Caps v Australia:

I like how the NZ attack have played Hazlewood back into form

Upvote for making me chuckle despite how things are going

barbarian

@Cyclops said in Black Caps v Australia:

I don't hate getting through a few overs here. The pitch is going to improve through the day. What we don't want is too many more runs. Ideally we'd reel off 10 or so maidens and then get the last wicket.

Yeah this one didn't age well.

Cyclops

@barbarian

Hey, my prediction of it getting easier to bat has been pretty good!

BerniesCorner

This game will be over in 3 days.
Love the Black Caps but this is a rudderless ship

Gunner

Well, I should be happy I suppose.

I expected to turn the TV to see us 30/3.

Only we could let Aussie off the hook like this. And 39 extras, wow!

Cyclops

Is this enough to drop Southee? Abysmal.

Windows97

Well this turned into a nightmare quickly...

Donsteppa

The ultimate in wet bus ticket bowling from Timmy and friends.

Rapido

I wonder if a team has ever had a worse first session of a day in the 150 years of test history?

9 down over night, 100 for zip next morning. I'd doubt that could be beaten. Would be interesting to see if any have been worse.

Rapido

@BerniesCorner said in Black Caps v Australia:

This game will be over in 3 days.
Love the Black Caps but this is a rudderless ship

Yeah. It will be a procession from here.

Kiwi cricketers crumble at the sight of a baggy green cap

The Silver Fern

Black Caps v Australia