Black Caps vs Windies Series

[MN5]

@mimic said in Black Caps vs Windies 1st Test:

@hydro11 said in Black Caps vs Windies 1st Test:

I guess the question for us is, if you are going to pick six batsmen then who are they? It's not clear to me that Neesham, Anderson and De Grandhomme are that much worse than Neil Broom or Dean Brownlie.

Tom Bruce (42.02), Bharat Popli (39.17), and Will Young (38.64) have been names thrown out there. They all have a better first class average than Nicholls (36.02, - test ave of 31.94), who is our current #5.

Those stats would get them into the English team

[Crazy Horse]

I have only seen Bruce bat once so a very small sample size, but I can confidently say, unfortunately, that he didn't appear to have the footwork to be a decent test batsman. He reminded me of Spearman.

[mimic]

Really good to see Nicholls make some runs

[Virgil]

Come on Roscoe, #17 in sight..

[mimic]

^^
Someone ban this cursing bastard

[Virgil]

@mimic said in Black Caps vs Windies 1st Test:

^^
Someone ban this cursing bastard

Just 3 or 4 scoring shots will do it..

[mimic]

New ball is due.. Should make things interesting

[Virgil]

@mimic said in Black Caps vs Windies 1st Test:

New ball is due.. Should make things interesting

Better not jinx it.

[No Quarter]

Plumb live, amazed the umpire said not out. Grrrrrrrrr

[mimic]

I blame Virgil

[Virgil]

Fuck it, yeah pretty plumb
Hopefully Nicholls can get on with it now

[mimic]

@no-quarter said in Black Caps vs Windies 1st Test:

Plumb live, amazed the umpire said not out. Grrrrrrrrr

To be fair.. there were two sounds

[Virgil]

CDG!!

[mimic]

CdG gets his maiden test ton..

Big f u to all the haters

[No Quarter]

Everyone that was throwing shade at CdG can give themselves a pat on the back. We all played a part in that innings.

[mimic]

Blundell gets 50 on debut.. we could bring watling in as a batsman I guess..

CdG gone for 105..
Second fastest test ton for a kiwi..

[Gunner]

Great work from CDG and Blundell and Nicholls to a lesser degree as our middle order were probably seen as the weak link.
CDG made it look pretty easy, sure he played and missed a few times but most of his shots were just effortless.

[Chris B.]

Well done Colin.

Now got better test batting and bowling averages than Chris Cairns.

[MN5]

@chris-b said in Black Caps vs Windies 1st Test:

Well done Colin.

Now got better test batting and bowling averages than Chris Cairns.

Dreams are free buddy.

[mimic]

Blundell needs to bat at 6.. it's ridiculous that Santner and CdG bat ahead of him..
Santner just simply isn't good enough, and CdG bats like Southee/McCullum so it doesn't matter cos he scores quick anyway..