Cricket: NZ vs Aus

[No Quarter]

I like the tactic of keeping it outside off and frustrating Smith. Getting drawn into attacking his stumps just feeds him easy runs.

[Godder]

We finally hit and he's safe...

[ACT Crusader]

Shane Warne clearly doesn’t know where the shoulder blades are....

[No Quarter]

I lean towards agreeing with the umpire on the denied run. Smith just turned around and it him in the back, that's hardly evasive action. Not exactly controversial and it's one run, get over it.

[No Quarter]

Comms: "... if Santer can just get one to turn and put doubt in the batsmen..."

Yes, if only.

[Godder]

I'm listening to Radio Sport, and Coney clearly doesn't think much of Santner...

[mariner4life]

@Godder said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

I'm listening to Radio Sport, and Coney clearly doesn't think much of Santner...

He's far from the only one

[Snowy]

@No-Quarter said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

Comms: "... if Santer can just get one to turn and put doubt in the batsmen..."

You'd think they haven't seen him bowl before.

[No Quarter]

@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

@Godder said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

I'm listening to Radio Sport, and Coney clearly doesn't think much of Santner...

He's far from the only one

He's all class in the shorter forms and commands his spot there, but his game doesn't suit test cricket and I'm not sure it ever will. Bit like Harris.

[Chris B.]

Colin burgles Marnus - might have chopped on with his elbow - part of a clumsy leave, anyway.

Crucial breakthrough when Australia were getting on top.

Need to bulldoze on here! Get a couple more quickly!

[Siam]

Little known fun fact: For the last 3 years running, Marnus has won the Springfield lookalike prize with his portrayal of Ralph Wiggum when leaving the MCG
🙂

[KiwiMurph]

Crowd is 80k here.

Who said Black Caps can't draw a crowd

[Machpants]

@KiwiMurph Mostly kiwis too by the cheers at the last wicket

[KiwiMurph]

@Machpants there are plenty!

[Chris B.]

Wade might battle his way to a hundred, but it's hard to believe he's one of the top 6 batsmen in Australia.

Surely Khawaja is better than him? Even a Marsh or two?

[Toddy]

@Chris-B Nice jinx.

[Chris B.]

And Seedy G gets him - but, probably not as cheaply as we should have and needed.

[Chris B.]

@Toddy Some sort of double-reverse effort - but, he's pretty ordinary.

Now that Jeet is sidelined he must be the worst specialist bat on either side.

[Chris B.]

Oz homing in on 220/4, which is pretty much par - but, I think, given their attack and that we inserted them, we needed to have them significantly behind par.

A couple of quick wickets can change things - especially if one of those was Smith.

[Rembrandt]

Just left ground to beat the rush. Great crowd and good watch apart from the last hour or so which dragged. Fun police came out in force the last 30 mins booting folk and taking names left and right, way over the top for what minor problems there were. Funnily enough they booted a whole group of friends who were sitting right in front of us but somehow missed the only one of their group who was actually drunk and maybe could have done with a word.