Cricket: NZ vs Aus
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@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Watched the first day of the Gabba test in a Pub in Dubbo Country NSW.
As the locals growling got louder with my celebration of each wicket I curbed my enthusiasm somewhat 🤓Watching that video reminded me of the stark difference in personality between Hadlee and Kane. I can't imagine Kane talking so bluntly about his perfect performance and rattling of records. Not that I think there's anything particularly wrong about what Hadlee was saying, but the difference is pretty stark I think.
Kane really gives the lie to the notion that is succeed as an elite athlete you have to be at least a little bit arrogant, and I love him all the more for that.
Paddles was always openly motivated by records, it’s what drove him. I’m sure there are plenty of other players who are too, maybe they just hide it better.
I’d imagine Kane would have goals too, like the number of test centuries he will finish with etc.Paddles attitude definitely rubbed people and fellow team mates up the wrong way. To be fair he was one of the few professionals in a team full of amateurs.
Then there was the incident over the car he won later that season..
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Kane has the luxury of being surrounded by half a dozen of our best ever players. Paddles could never say the same thing
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@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Kane has the luxury of being surrounded by half a dozen of our best ever players. Paddles could never say the same thing
After Paddles rolled them in the first innings Crowe got 188 so they at least had one world class player in each discipline.
I'll take our all-time greats however we get them but Crowe and Paddles were odd ducks for sure and I'm sure their birth certificates needed to be checked on multiple occasions to make sure they weren't born the other side of the ditch (SRH more than Crowe), but it seemed to work for them.
Kane seems to be cut from a different cloth. Whatever cloth they have going in the bay with Peter Burling and Sam Cane.
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@rotated said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Kane seems to be cut from a different cloth. Whatever cloth they have going in the bay with Peter Burling and Sam Cane.
Fark, whatever they do at Tauranga Boys is working, check out the list of sports stars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauranga_Boys'_College#Notable_alumni
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Some interesting stats here, e.g. Taylor's average is better against Aussie.
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Warming up the MCG for the Kiwis......
Opening day abandoned due to dangerous MCG pitch | cricket.com.au
Play abandoned on opening day of Marsh Sheffield Shield clash at the MCG after several batsmen were…
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@Xpat61 said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Warming up the MCG for the Kiwis......
Opening day abandoned due to dangerous MCG pitch | cricket.com.au
Play abandoned on opening day of Marsh Sheffield Shield clash at the MCG after several batsmen were…
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@LABCAT said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
How much is that due to his 290 from his last game in Perth though?
If you remove any players best performances their averages suddenly look a bit... average. Unless they're just killing it every time they play (I.E Bradman) . That was some innings, he deserves to get a boost from it. If he can play even half as well this time we'll be right in the game.
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@No-Quarter said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@LABCAT said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
How much is that due to his 290 from his last game in Perth though?
If you remove any players best performances their averages suddenly look a bit... average. Unless they're just killing it every time they play (I.E Bradman) . That was some innings, he deserves to get a boost from it. If he can play even half as well this time we'll be right in the game.
By the same token, does he get to remove his worst performance? (Although I think that would not have that great an effect ... )
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Is this the best New Zealand Test side of all time?
The current team has half a dozen all-time XI contenders, and matches up well to the Hadlee-Crowe side of the 1980s
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@Snowy said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Is there an update on injuries for Trent and CDG?
and Ross Taylor now as well
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@rotated said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
This is eeirly starting to feel like the 2004 England Tour... so much hype and a few narrow injury misses.
That's been in the back of my mind as the injury list grew. Too scarred from the 90s/early 00s, plus it's the Canary Yellows in their own backyard... and yet the sense of it being 85/86 all over again also sits there optimistically 😊
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Interesting build up in Oz for this series.
Two big spreads in the Sunday Tele and multimedia is pumping out the message to the public they don’t realise how good this Kiwi team is unless you start crunching numbers.
Usually not many Aussies care about how the Black Caps are performing unless they play Australia so they are oblivious of some of the marvellous wins we have conjured up in the last three years and their circumstances.
It’s a very tough ask playing pink ball at Perth’s new stadium as the surface will be a bit of an unknown beast and especially with Oz having played their last test under lights and no warm up game for the Good Guys.
Not too concerned with injuries as they’ll only play Trent if they reckon he’s got enough overs in him and why not debut your most exciting new young bowler to Test Cricket in Perth in a very new stadium! Rossco and CdG will fine!!
Not making any predictions until after the first session once I’ve seen the pitch and got the vibe.
This is the big one guys beating Oz in Oz and we have a squad with genuine depth and three (3) tests to do it in.
And the betting odds are so much better than the AB’s 🤓
