T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies
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i sort of missed this was even a thing. how the fuck do you have a "world cup" 19 months after the last one. Why does anyone give a shit about this? International T20 can die in a fucking fire. Franchise cricket TV filler format.
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@mariner4life said in T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies:
Franchise cricket TV filler format.
you spelled 'rivers of money' wrong
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@Donsteppa said in T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies:
@nzzp said in T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies:
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@mariner4life said in T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies:
Why does anyone give a shit about this?
NZ Cricket don't.
Neither of our opening batsmen had played since February. The majority of the others hadn't played since April.
The guys who played (weren't just squaddies) in the IPL have played more recently - but, in India.
But, we didn't need any warm-up games.
At least the team has put in plenty of practice spending time with their families.
Don Corleone will be pleased!
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@MN5 said in T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies:
So……
Are NZ officially out or is there still that niggly, shitty, clutching at every straw imaginable “mathematical” chance that we’re still a possibility to get through ?
Officially out. The combination of results now required for us to get through probably requires dodgy bookies.
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Happy to miss all of this game although I did check the score occasionally. It started well.
Many of us said that not selecting Seifert in the squad was a mistake. That's on Stead and Wells.
Mitchell has bowled two overs (both the 19th) so far and conceded 35 runs.
Stead's reason for not playing any warmup games was that the IPL players arrived late, and the Black Caps requested later warm-up games due to the late arrival of players, but were denied by officials. I've no idea if Conway was in India but the likes of him could have done with some games.
Black Craps indeed.
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@Bovidae said in T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies:
Happy to miss all of this game although I did check the score occasionally. It started well.
Many of us said that not selecting Seifert in the squad was a mistake. That's on Stead and Wells.
Mitchell has bowled two overs (both the 19th) so far and conceded 35 runs.
Stead's reason for not playing any warmup games was that the IPL players arrived late, and the Black Caps requested later warm-up games due to the late arrival of players, but were denied by officials. I've no idea if Conway was in India but the likes of him could have done with some games.
Black Craps indeed.
Stead OUT
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@Sprinko said in T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies:
Surely with late arrivals from IPL you still schedule pre-tournament fixtures for the remaining players who haven’t just been playing IPL.
Aussie played warmup games without their IPL players and the coaching staff fielded to make up the numbers
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@Bones said in T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies:
Have I missed a reason why nearly everyone else got to roll the arm over, except for Ravindra?
Pretty sure they read it as being a seamer's pitch - especially after Phillips and Santner bowled relatively expensive early overs.
So Santner - who you'd usually expect to bowl four overs only bowled two - and they tried not to have him have to bowl his second. And Neesh who you'd hope not to use at all bowled four.
And Mitch Jr.
The Windies showed that was a bit of a misread.
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@Duluth said in T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies:
@Sprinko said in T20 WC - Black Caps v West Indies:
Surely with late arrivals from IPL you still schedule pre-tournament fixtures for the remaining players who haven’t just been playing IPL.
Aussie played warmup games without their IPL players and the coaching staff fielded to make up the numbers
India played a warm-up game.
The Jaapies had a three match tour of the Windies in May.
England played a series vs Pakistan in England at the end of May.
We were the dipshits who decided we didn't need proper preparation and reaped the rewards. I thought we were supposed to have taken "learnings" from getting our arses handed to us at the WACA when we didn't bother to play warm up games prior to that big tour.
Just saw Hesson making this point on a chat show - and also throwing in that "everyone knows that practice wickets in the Windies are substandard, so it's no use planning to do your work over there".
