Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan
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@cyclops said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mariner4life said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mokey said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mariner4life Especially the victories where a spell of bowling brilliance papers over a fucking shambolic batting effort...
aaahhh, isn't that like, all of them? Certainly the memorable ones.
Being rolled by Pakistan over there is hardly a black mark though, they are lethal.
Yeah for all the criticism of the first innings performance, some of it was brought into context through the rest of the match. 153 went from abysmal to probably not far below par.
Agree, the batting didn't surprise me that much - we've never been great against spin plus Pakistan have a quality all round attack. We were always very reliant on Rosco and Kane going big if we wanted a decent total. But the bowlers, Boult included, have far exceeded expectations in that match.
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@no-quarter said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@cyclops said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mariner4life said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mokey said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mariner4life Especially the victories where a spell of bowling brilliance papers over a fucking shambolic batting effort...
aaahhh, isn't that like, all of them? Certainly the memorable ones.
Being rolled by Pakistan over there is hardly a black mark though, they are lethal.
Yeah for all the criticism of the first innings performance, some of it was brought into context through the rest of the match. 153 went from abysmal to probably not far below par.
Agree, the batting didn't surprise me that much - we've never been great against spin plus Pakistan have a quality all round attack. We were always very reliant on Rosco and Kane going big if we wanted a decent total. But the bowlers, Boult included, have far exceeded expectations in that match.
I'm picking KW to stay around for awhile but Rossco is gonna leave a massive hole when he retires.
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@virgil said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Thanks @Mokey
That was awesome to watch!!!!!
Love how KW lifts up Ajaz at the end there!
Super team
Liking the Watling stiffness of the team too. We may have low score innings but we also had top score innings.
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@hooroo said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@virgil said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Thanks @Mokey
That was awesome to watch!!!!!
Love how KW lifts up Ajaz at the end there!
Super team
Liking the Watling stiffness of the team too. We may have low score innings but we also had top score innings.
The looks in the crowd is piss funny, the look on the coaches face is even better
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@virgil said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@hooroo said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@virgil said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Thanks @Mokey
That was awesome to watch!!!!!
Love how KW lifts up Ajaz at the end there!
Super team
Liking the Watling stiffness of the team too. We may have low score innings but we also had top score innings.
The looks in the crowd is piss funny, the look on the coaches face is even better
Was the assistant coach one of the Flower brothers? The guys in the paki fancy dress were the best. Cheers to tears
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@canefan Sodhi was guilty of bowling too many full tosses so his control was an issue. Of course, one of those pies gave him a caught and bowled.
The delivery that Patel bowled to Abbas that went for review was even better than his final delivery. That looked to have only just missed the off stump, and might have caused the noise all the fielders believed they heard.
There wasn't a big crowd there but the camera shots of them were so funny. Not just Mickey Arthur pacing back and forwards but of the two Paki fans praying before every delivery.
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@snowy said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@canefan said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
He's fuelled on anger, real or usually imagined
And what is your fucking problem with that!!!!
That's what I love about him!
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One of the the pleasing things was that the team was basically a Tauranga City team with a few extras.
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@virgil said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Hesson clearly didn’t see anything worthwhile from Patel, despite his record the past 3 years
I guess he valued Mark Craig's ( admittedly very good ) talents as a low order batsman so much he was blinded to the fact he was a completely shithouse spin bowler most of the time.
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@virgil said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Hesson clearly didn’t see anything worthwhile from Patel, despite his record the past 3 years
Patel wouldn't be there if Santner was fit.
It's good that I can remember him for this, and not Devcich hitting 6 fours off one of his overs in the T20 final.
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@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@virgil said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Hesson clearly didn’t see anything worthwhile from Patel, despite his record the past 3 years
I guess he valued Mark Craig's ( admittedly very good ) talents as a low order batsman so much he was blinded to the fact he was a completely shithouse spin bowler most of the time.
He took a 5fer when we beat England at Leeds last tour, including Alastair Cook. I will always love him for that.
But yeah agree with you.
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No denying Craig had a small handful of absolutely brilliant performances but an average of 46 indicates these were very few.
Patels first class record is pretty encouraging though. Will be interesting if this one performance is enough to leapfrog Sodhi cos I have a feeling the selectors go back to three seamers in NZ particularly if they have 'all rounder' Mitch Santner in the mix too.
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I doubt both Santner and Patel make the same XI in any conditions as they are both left-armers, albeit quite different due to their heights. Somerville may get a chance in either the 2nd or 3rd tests vs Pakistan because Stead has mentioned rotating the bowlers.
