Cricket: NZ vs Aus
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Burns finally nicks one and we're on the board.
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@Siam said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@canefan It's a curious situation because Stead must get fair praise for being in charge of beating the pakis at home and the world cup.
I suspect there's a few cooks spoiling this current broth
I'm not sure he provides Kane with sufficient guidance. At his worst he is a pretty ponderous captain, and his team choices (Mitch) lack
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The Park Cricketer does what he does, and nicks out Burns, who must have just watched his career head to first slip.
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@Siam said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
I suspect there's a few cooks spoiling this current broth
Whoever signed us up for the opening fixture being a pink-ball test in Perth probably shouldn't be left in charge of the the scones in the oven!
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@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Siam said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
I suspect there's a few cooks spoiling this current broth
Whoever signed us up for the opening fixture being a pink-ball test in Perth probably shouldn't be left in charge of the the scones in the oven!
This is the crux for me. I don't know about the negotiations but if we go back we need a few warm up innings on Aus pitches.
Overall our preparation and batting strategies have been second rate
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@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Siam said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
I suspect there's a few cooks spoiling this current broth
Whoever signed us up for the opening fixture being a pink-ball test in Perth probably shouldn't be left in charge of the the scones in the oven!
That was a really 50/50 scenario. If we got the best of the conditions it could have worked in our favour, but as it turned out Aus got the best and more than made the most of them. That seemed to really knock our confidence, which is where Stead needed to step up but the whole gameplan in the 2nd test right from the toss indicated we were not in a good head space. Aus were again ruthless as you'd expect them to be against a team lacking confidence.
The Hess/Baz combo worked well as they complimented each other. Stead/Kane I think we are lacking the confidence and positive/aggressive mindset that Baz brought to the table.
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That stupid fucking leave of Louboutin's is cringy and spastic.
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@Siam said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Siam said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
I suspect there's a few cooks spoiling this current broth
Whoever signed us up for the opening fixture being a pink-ball test in Perth probably shouldn't be left in charge of the the scones in the oven!
This is the crux for me. I don't know about the negotiations but if we go back we need a few warm up innings on Aus pitches.
Overall our preparation and batting strategies have been second rate
I expect it's David White's doing
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@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
That stupid fucking leave of Louboutin's is cringy and spastic.
He models himself on Smith. What do you expect
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@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
That stupid fucking leave of Louboutin's is cringy and spastic.
He models himself on Smith. What do you expect
great. 2 eccentric spastics on one team. Both scoring fuckloads of runs so we get to see them later.
Throw in the angry dwarf, and i am warming right in to hating the Aussies again.
Where's @Virgil to really fuel the fires?
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@Siam said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Siam said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
I suspect there's a few cooks spoiling this current broth
Whoever signed us up for the opening fixture being a pink-ball test in Perth probably shouldn't be left in charge of the the scones in the oven!
This is the crux for me. I don't know about the negotiations but if we go back we need a few warm up innings on Aus pitches.
Overall our preparation and batting strategies have been second rate
The problem with playing warm-up matches in Oz is that they're not going to (and would be stupid to) give us practice against the Starc/Cummins/Hazelwood's that we're going to face in the tests. And they probably won't give us pitches that will replicate Perth.
In theory, warming up against Archer should have been decent preparation, but we played that series on pudding pitches - nothing like we've seen in Oz.
That said - our preparation has been nearly as shit as it was for the CWC - we got away with it there, we didn't here.
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@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
That stupid fucking leave of Louboutin's is cringy and spastic.
He deserves to take one right in the grill
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@Chris-B all that maybe true, but there's no way we should play a test upon arrival in Australia without a couple of days play in local conditions.
Not a cure-all but a contributing factor to this train wreck tour, plus a lack of patience and attrition batting plans on pitches where big innings are full of leaving and then cashing in after 2 hours at the crease.
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Is Matt Henry still off with his bung hand?
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@Siam Yeah - a warm up game probably wouldn't have done too much harm, but I think I recall last time we toured Oz our warm up game was some bizarre offering where Finch and someone racked up 500 without loss on Day 1 and then the game was called off without a ball being bowled on Day 2 because the pitch was dangerous - but, maybe I'm getting two games confused.
I think NQ is pretty right that that first innings batting in Perth under lights scarred us quite badly. Tbh even from my couch it looked genuinely frightening when Kane and Ross were batting and getting hit by thunderbolts.
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Come on Will
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Poor Wags has basically carried the bowling attack for two tests already, and is gonna have to do something mighty again.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11537625
According to Google my memory is not quite as crap as I sometimes think. Here's the shit pitch story.
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Lunch, and Australia win yet another session.
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Go Wags!
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Good start to the session!
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Still no 50 for Warner!!!
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@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
That stupid fucking leave of Louboutin's is cringy and spastic.
He models himself on Smith. What do you expect
great. 2 eccentric spastics on one team. Both scoring fuckloads of runs so we get to see them later.
Throw in the angry dwarf, and i am warming right in to hating the Aussies again.
Where's @Virgil to really fuel the fires?
Away heading up north with the wife kid free mate and pretending the cricket doesn’t exist...
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Need another one right now - get Wade in while the bowlers are relatively fresh!
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We're flat and a bit toothless Oz 3 and 4 will put on 250 here , reverse jinx.
God I hate seeing the "rested" Southee fking fielding!
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We neeeeed to get better at hitting the stumps.
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We should bring Chris Harris in as a technical fielding advisor.
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@No-Quarter said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
We should bring Chris Harris in as a technical fielding advisor.
Agree, and possibly Steve Waugh as a technical winning advisor.
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...and clones of the young Joel Garner and Michael Holding...and Curtley Ambrose for good measure!
This is all looking pretty familiar - Marnus and Smith batting us out of the game here. Even if we get one of them shortly, I doubt we'll have the venom to run through their middle order.
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@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
...and clones of the young Joel Garner and Michael Holding...and Curtley Ambrose for good measure!
This is all looking pretty familiar - Marnus and Smith batting us out of the game here. Even if we get one of them shortly, I doubt we'll have the venom to run through their middle order.
i was just thinking "shit, i've read this script before"
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@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
...and clones of the young Joel Garner and Michael Holding...and Curtley Ambrose for good measure!
This is all looking pretty familiar - Marnus and Smith batting us out of the game here. Even if we get one of them shortly, I doubt we'll have the venom to run through their middle order.
i was just thinking "shit, i've read this script before"
400+ is on the cards here and from then it will be very same same. The only tough decision for the Aussies will be whether they have the egg or tuna sandwiches for tea...
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Stick a fork in us, we're done...
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fucking australia, finding this fucking guy only because their best player got a smack in the head
his scores since then are:
59, 74, 80, 67, 11, 48, 14, 185, 162, 143, 50, 63, 19, 98*
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chew hundred chwenty chew for chew!!
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Our specialist spinners have taken roughly 1 for 350 in this series.
Give Jeet a bowl - he may as well do something in this game!
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Amazingly, Seedy G collects a Smith.
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@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Need another one right now - get Wade in while the bowlers are relatively fresh!
Would’ve been nice 4 hours ago, but now Wade has raced to 20 with relative ease by the close of play...
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@ACT-Crusader Yeah - exactly. And although I was only keeping a loose watch on things, I didn't really see us create a significant chance.
But, it was at a similar sort of point in Melbourne where Kane got a good run-out chance and couldn't convert - and that's pretty much the only opening the Australians have given us in this series.
The real interest in this match is going to be whether we can make a credible fist of batting on a slowish pitch in the first innings. That's going to require all of our big batsmen standing up, because we've got some serious holes in our batting line-up with Jeet and Phillips in the top order.
Second innings, I suspect Lyon will spin us out.
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Gary Stead explains non selection of Tim Southee by saying that he wanted more speed. Seems to me he has tried this before and it hasn’t worked. Not sure he knows what he is doing.
Then he opens with CDG at 120km and he is the top wicket taker today.
Early in this test but this tour is already a disaster.
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