NZ v SA Test Series

[taniwharugby]

they were saying on the radio, Jeet has batted for over 2 hours in 7 of his (11?) innings.

[Gunner]

At risk of being banned and publicly flogged - she's not very often our top 3 all get 50's....

Little Kane only 5 runs away from making it happen.

159/1

[Tim]

TOP SCORES BY NZ OPENERS V SA
Player Runs Ground Start Date
GO Rabone 107 Durban 11 Dec 1953
MJ Horne 93 Auckland 27 Feb 1999
JA Raval 80 Wellington 16 Mar 2017
GT Dowling 78 Port Elizabeth 16 Feb 1962
MH Richardson 77 Bloemfontein 17 Nov 2000
ME Chapple 76 Cape Town 1 Jan 1954
GT Dowling 74 Johannesburg 26 Dec 1961
BA Young 74 Auckland 4 Mar 1995
SN McGregor 68 Cape Town 1 Jan 1962
JA Raval 65* Hamilton 25 Mar 2017

[Virgil]

@Tim So they were still celebrating a victory in late Wales over the All Blacks the one and only time an opener of ours scored a 100 against SA..

[MajorRage]

Bloody good read this on our opener.

no-league

The making of a Kiwi

From a young, homesick 16-year-old, Jeet Raval has blossomed into a New Zealand cricketer with enviable credentials

[Cyclops]

@Tim

Raval owns two of our top ten scores now. Impressive and depressing at the same time

[MN5]

KW cracks 5000 test runs at 50.53.

Guess that's an ok enough effort.

[Gunner]

@Gunner said in NZ v SA Test Series:

she's not very often our top 3 all get 50's....

Does anyone have the ability to look this stat up?

I'd be interested as to how often this has actually happened.

[MajorRage]

What the hell is going on out there?

"Philander is now rolling the ball back, as a form of protest, from the deep"

Did we accuse them of something? Trying to read back cricinfo and it just looked like it was a general discussion amongst the fans etc. Obviously not!

[No Quarter]

@MN5 said in NZ v SA Test Series:

KW cracks 5000 test runs at 50.53.

Guess that's an ok enough effort.

Not bad. The list of fastest to 5000 test runs makes for interesting reading. Some bloke called Bradman puts the rest of the world to shame...

110 innings puts him equal with Punter.

Test matches | Batting records | Fastest to 5000 runs | ESPNcricinfo

Find records of Fastest to 5000 runs in Test matches only on ESPNcricinfo.

[MN5]

@MajorRage said in NZ v SA Test Series:

What the hell is going on out there?

"Philander is now rolling the ball back, as a form of protest, from the deep"

Did we accuse them of something? Trying to read back cricinfo and it just looked like it was a general discussion amongst the fans etc. Obviously not!

Her concert series is mercifully over yet we're still hearing from fucken Adele...
Make it stop!!!

[MajorRage]

@MN5 Subtle, topical and brilliantly thought out. Well played sir.

[Cyclops]

@MajorRage said in NZ v SA Test Series:

What the hell is going on out there?

"Philander is now rolling the ball back, as a form of protest, from the deep"

Did we accuse them of something? Trying to read back cricinfo and it just looked like it was a general discussion amongst the fans etc. Obviously not!

Umpires decided that the ball was out of shape so changed it, bit it was reversing nicely for South Africa. A couple of overs later Philander asked for another change and the umpires said no.

[MN5]

@MajorRage said in NZ v SA Test Series:

@MN5 Subtle, topical and brilliantly thought out. Well played sir.

Not unlike all my posts really

[MajorRage]

@MN5

[SammyC]

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[Cyclops]

@SammyC

Hmm I'm sure we had our top 3 all make centuries once (rigor, Lou Vincent and Fleming I think).

[SammyC]

@Cyclops said in NZ v SA Test Series:

@SammyC

Hmm I'm sure we had our top 3 all make centuries once (rigor, Lou Vincent and Fleming I think).

Right you are Rigor, Vincent and Styris India 2003

[Frye]

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[MN5]

When Vincent got his hundy on debut vs oz I'm sure there were three others that got them too. On my phone so if someone could link the scoresheet via cricinfo that would be good.