Cricket: NZ vs Aus
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The fact of the matter is, a whole bunch of senior players went seriously MIA on this tour. If not for heroics at certain times, Wagner's bowling, Blundell's century, the odd 50 from lower order players, our humiliation would have been far worse.
You gotta ask - how did we fall so far. Even with a great Aussie bowling lineup (and no question there) our experienced senior batsmen like Ross and Kane were woeful. Unfortunately his captaincy wasn't much better. We all know Kane is a true great, so what the hell happened?
Like others have said, it's the nature of complete capitulation here. Aussie at home were always going to be a hard ask, but we brought wet bus tickets to a gunfight. And that's what hurts most.
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@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
i can't begin to express how disappointed i am by this whole tour. okay, yes, i have expressed exactly that, repeatedly, throughout this thread, but, you know...
At the start i was bullish, we were finally sending a good team to Australia, and we were going to have a real crack at the Aussies, and put them back in their box. It didn't matter what they had just done to Pakistan, because we were the real deal.
And look what happens
As i always say, as a sports fan, it's the expectation that kills you.
It's not the done thing, but post #3 on this thread.
@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Xpat61 I'm too haunted.
I fear we're going to end up wishing we had a couple of 6'6 bowlers who can bowl 145+ kmh.
But, I have to say, we've been much more disappointing than I expected. I thought we'd at least be as competitive as last time we were here, but we weren't close.
The most disastrous tour in more than a decade - back to the days when Dan Vettori was our captain, coach, bus driver and team.
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@Mokey said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
You gotta ask - how did we fall so far. Even with a great Aussie bowling lineup (and no question there) our experienced senior batsmen like Ross and Kane were woeful. Unfortunately his captaincy wasn't much better. We all know Kane is a true great, so what the hell happened?
Kane? First innings in Perth was facing the pink ball under lights. I thought he and Ross were great against some of the scariest bowling I've seen.
Second innings caught Wade bowled Lyon - I can't recall.
First innings in Melbourne - a wild swipe.
Second innings - fired out by Marais.
I' suspect that first session in Perth got into our heads a bit.
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I agree with Coney that you need to prepare properly for a tour. I just don't think it would have mattered here. We didn't really become better as the tour went on. Australia were just too good in these conditions. I think we should be disappointed - most of our best batsmen got a few starts but no really big scores from them. Reality is that we needed someone to stand up like Labuschagne did.
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Well thank God that's over. I reckon a year ago we'd have given them a good shake, but Dave, Steve and now Marnus are too much for us.
In Perth I was proud of our bowling, really stuck at it despite the lack of penetration at the top, and the loss of a bowler early. Sliding doors, but there's a real scenario where we roll them for 300 and the game and series is on. Unfortunately, it just turned to shit and went downhill from there.
Positives:
Neil
CDG bowling
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... Nah I'm out.Hope the mental damage isn't sustained, we did not show up at all. Stead has to answer some questions... Why throw a debut at Lockie there without playing against England first? Bowling in Melbourne? Ffs.
Anyway it's done, bring on India.
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@hydro11 man for man they are much better team, the extra pace their bowlers generated had our batsman struggling with the extra bounce as well compared to out bowlers who did not look threatening..Wagner bowled with a ton of heart,but their were lot of deliveries that the batsmen did not have to play at and that was a common theme.
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@barbarian said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
where he is giving key batsmen out LBW, but ONLY when the ball is just clipping the outside of the stumps.
Which he shouldn't be doing. Those should be not out from the on field call.
The basic tenet being that the benefit of the doubt goes to the batsman. Which makes him poor or corrupt. Your decision, as I said.
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@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@barbarian said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
I'll tip an Australian win, but a tied series or a Kiwi win wouldn't shock me
we're no chance. I don't think we'll win a game. 2-0 to Australia
Shit, I over-estimated us
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@Snowy (whispering)...i don't think there's actually any official mention of benefit of the doubt in any binding laws or documents...
I'm led to believe it's a brilliant rule of thumb dreamt up years ago, probably to adequately school all umpires back in the day. Stinks of something W.G. would proclaim.
Sorry snowy. But I did get umpired by Aleem once....didn't trust him all game mate🤔
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@Snowy said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@barbarian said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
where he is giving key batsmen out LBW, but ONLY when the ball is just clipping the outside of the stumps.
Which he shouldn't be doing. Those should be not out from the on field call.
The basic tenet being that the benefit of the doubt goes to the batsman. Which makes him poor or corrupt. Your decision, as I said.
I'm not opposed to the benefit of the doubt going to the umpire. As @barbarian said, they weren't great decisions, but they weren't howlers. The 'that mark could have come from anywhere'was a howler.
Jeez, we played so badly this tour
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Thank fuck its over. Now we need to clear out heads before the Indians arrive. I'm with @Chris-B. We need to figure out how to use this experience to make our batsmen better rather than clearing the decks because for the most part there are our best players.
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@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Thank fuck its over. Now we need to clear out heads before the Indians arrive. I'm with @Chris-B. We need to figure out how to use this experience to make our batsmen better rather than clearing the decks because for the most part there are our best players.
They just need to learn how to spell D.I.S.C.I.P.L.I.N.E. know what it means and demonstrate it when they walk out to the middle
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@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@mariner4life Macca was our batting coach for five years under Hesson. The man was a coaching genius!
And he had a test batting average of 38.5. Worthy!
Worthy if you’re a number 7 or 8...
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@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
The bloke who hailed this as the best Black Caps side to go to Australia should give himself uppercuts for life.
A much better comparison would be with the 94/95 Black Caps side for meek capitulations and ineffectual bowling.
What really really shits is that we were, or at least should have been.
I mean 6 of this XI are either solid first choices for a NZ All Time Test XI or are damn close too it.
Latham
Williamson
Taylor
Watling
Southee
Boult(You can throw Wags into that mix now ... we loves Wags)
Superstars by NZ standards.
Sure there were weaknesses, a second opener and a proper spinner.
But the other batsman is in the "very good" tier, and the all rounder is at least adequate.
Super disappointing to be as badly outclassed as we were.
It's been years since we've been embarrassed like that. The 45 all out v SA?
This deserves All Black loss reaction, analysis and vitriol. Does Gary Stead have a race horse we can split on?
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@ACT-Crusader said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@mariner4life Macca was our batting coach for five years under Hesson. The man was a coaching genius!
And he had a test batting average of 38.5. Worthy!
Worthy if you’re a number 7 or 8...
Or are from New Zealand:
New Zealand Test matches batting highest career batting average | ESPNcricinfo
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@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@barbarian said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
I'll tip an Australian win, but a tied series or a Kiwi win wouldn't shock me
we're no chance. I don't think we'll win a game. 2-0 to Australia
Shit, I over-estimated us
Me too
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@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Thank fuck its over. Now we need to clear out heads before the Indians arrive. I'm with @Chris-B. We need to figure out how to use this experience to make our batsmen better rather than clearing the decks because for the most part there are our best players.
Oh great. India.
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@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Thank fuck its over. Now we need to clear out heads before the Indians arrive. I'm with @Chris-B. We need to figure out how to use this experience to make our batsmen better rather than clearing the decks because for the most part there are our best players.
Oh great. India.
At least it's at home. And its unseasonably cold and windy at the moment ❄
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Two thoughts:
- 38.4 is an awesome average for NZ batsman.
- Erasmus is past his useby
