Black Caps v Australia

[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

[Chris]

Just pick a bowling machine for Southee at least you can ramp the pace up and it is accurate.
Still swings the ball both ways as well.

[nzzp]

nah, it's just taken the NZ Win off the table.

Draw this one, go to CHC, burgle it - and get the 1-0 victory. ANything but 2-0 is a loss for Australia to be frank ... so many WTC points riding on these 2 test series.

Southee's had to go for a while, but they made him Captain. WOR has bowled way better; we needed to be investing in others before today. I am quite frustrated at NZ Cricket right now

[Rapido]

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[MN5]

@nzzp said in Black Caps v Australia:

nah, it's just taken the NZ Win off the table.

Draw this one, go to CHC, burgle it - and get the 1-0 victory. ANything but 2-0 is a loss for Australia to be frank ... so many WTC points riding on these 2 test series.

Southee's had to go for a while, but they made him Captain. WOR has bowled way better; we needed to be investing in others before today. I am quite frustrated at NZ Cricket right now

Is Southee being retained for his ‘experience’ on top of being captain ?

With Wags, Boult and KJ all gone for various reasons that seems the only logical explanation to me.

[No Quarter]

Man we are missing Kyle

[nzzp]

Well, now we're just taking time out of the test. I loved our bowling economy yesterday - runs were hard to come by.

Only got to bat two days right?

[No Quarter]

Henry our best by a mile, well deserved 5

[NTA]

Didn't make 400. Fail.

[nzzp]

@NTA said in Black Caps v Australia:

Didn't make 400. Fail.

Hopefully this means the pitch is a road.

[mariner4life]

McGrath and Gillespie is still way more embarrassing but that was absolutely putrid this morning.

I'll be astounded if we score 500 runs total, so Aus only need 120 more to win

[nzzp]

@mariner4life said in Black Caps v Australia:

I'll be astounded if we score 500 runs total,

we'll get there. I'm quietly confident.

Kane 100x2
Dazz a lazy hundy
and then you only need 200 runs from 16 innings.

Simple!

[NTA]

Three overs completed without losing a wicket.

Advantage: New Zealand.