Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan
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@bovidae said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Southee was dropped. They were only going to play 2 pace bowlers and Boult and Wagner have been preferred. There is a suggestion that NZ will rotate their quicks during this series.
New boy Patel has ridiculously good FC stats.......for a NZ spin bowler.
That is encouraging.
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@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@bovidae said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
For the cricket tragics...
NZ win the toss and they'll bat first.
1 Jeet Raval, 2 Tom Latham, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Ross Taylor, 5 BJ Watling (wk), 6 Henry Nicholls, 7 Colin de Grandhomme, 8 Neil Wagner, 9 Ajaz Patel (debut), 10 Trent Boult, 11 Ish Sodhi
Weak tail. Wagner at 8?
Now that I've started the season on a negative let's get positive. That top 7 is possibly our best ever overall.
Ish and Wagner can both bat respectably well for bowlers (without being all-rounders). Boult probably offers about as much with the bat as Southee these days. Surprised that he's listed ahead of Sodhi. I'd probably have Sodhi 8 Wagner 9 and Boult 11 with the proviso that I know nothing about Patel's batting ability.
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@bones said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
84/3.....El capitaine steadying the ship.
Clearly I'm the only sad guy keeping an eye on this on a fridee night.
Arabic/Spanish/Scottish/Maori? Sounds like a job for Cliff Curtis.
I log back on early on a Saturdee morning before a day of piling my house ( anyone welcome to come and help, I pay in beer ) for some startling cricket analysis and all I get is old mate @Bones getting smart.
Love the fern
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@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@bones said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
84/3.....El capitaine steadying the ship.
Clearly I'm the only sad guy keeping an eye on this on a fridee night.
Arabic/Spanish/Scottish/Maori? Sounds like a job for Cliff Curtis.
I log back on early on a Saturdee morning before a day of piling my house ( anyone welcome to come and help, I pay in beer ) for some startling cricket analysis and all I get is old mate @Bones getting smart.
Love the fern
Best euphemism ever. Say hi to Mr Gayle.
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@bones said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@bones said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
84/3.....El capitaine steadying the ship.
Clearly I'm the only sad guy keeping an eye on this on a fridee night.
Arabic/Spanish/Scottish/Maori? Sounds like a job for Cliff Curtis.
I log back on early on a Saturdee morning before a day of piling my house ( anyone welcome to come and help, I pay in beer ) for some startling cricket analysis and all I get is old mate @Bones getting smart.
Love the fern
Best euphemism ever. Say hi to Mr Gayle.
Sigh....if only
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Kane getting strangled down leg, in a way, was a cruel blow. Nicholls did so well before that but threw his wicket away with a poor shot in the circumstances. Then Colins first ball was pretty much unplayable first up, and that was the middle order fightback fucked.
Didn't see us bowl but 2 wickets is some returnSo, how to stop the Pakis getting to 250+ is going to be tricky.
Rough first day. Turned a lot too -
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I was just reading this in the newspaper. Like him, or loathe him, Danny has a good gig.
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@chris-b said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@siam I reckon a better batsman than Colin would have patted that "unplayable" delivery harmlessly back down the pitch.
Colin's tour of the U.A.E. hasn't been spectacular with bat in hand....
1,6,4,6,0,3,020 off 7 ... be alright if the second number was (the more usual) balls rather than innings
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@siam said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@chris-b tough marker, fair bit of reverse first ball up. I can't condemn a man on that ball. Then again Ish did what you describe to a similar next ball
I've just found over the years that people like Tendulkar, Lara, Williamson etc tend to receive a lot less unplayable balls than lesser batsmen!
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@bovidae said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
I was just reading this in the newspaper. Like him, or loathe him, Danny has a good gig.
@Bones is Danny Morrison crickets Justin Marshall or is Justin Marshall Rugbys Danny Morrison?
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