Big Bash 2020/2021
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@booboo said in Big Bash 2020/2021:
Yeah, well BBL seems popular this year ...
Yuuuge crowds, and massive interest on this thread ...
Anyways, just caught the end of the orange team's innings against the lime green team, and saw a couple of Kiwis playing:
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Colin Munro got 50 off about 40. Yay.
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Adam Milne was playing for lime. Wondered what happened to him. Was a huge fanboi. Assuming he succumbed to the curse of the Kiwi Quick (back injury?).
Still bowling around 140. Probably slower than 2015. Such a shame he blew out. Had a better more sustainable action than Lochie Ferguson. Really thought he had a bug future in all forms.
I think we really missed him in the 2015 final too.
Milne is very overrated, check his stats, even his domestic stats aren't that good. He was just able to bowl fast.
Ferguson can bowl fast but he is actually a very good bowler as well. He was NZ's best bowler at the last world cup.
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@LABCAT said in Big Bash 2020/2021:
@booboo said in Big Bash 2020/2021:
Yeah, well BBL seems popular this year ...
Yuuuge crowds, and massive interest on this thread ...
Anyways, just caught the end of the orange team's innings against the lime green team, and saw a couple of Kiwis playing:
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Colin Munro got 50 off about 40. Yay.
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Adam Milne was playing for lime. Wondered what happened to him. Was a huge fanboi. Assuming he succumbed to the curse of the Kiwi Quick (back injury?).
Still bowling around 140. Probably slower than 2015. Such a shame he blew out. Had a better more sustainable action than Lochie Ferguson. Really thought he had a bug future in all forms.
I think we really missed him in the 2015 final too.
Milne is very overrated, check his stats, even his domestic stats aren't that good. He was just able to bowl fast.
Ferguson can bowl fast but he is actually a very good bowler as well. He was NZ's best bowler at the last world cup.
Yeah - Milne seemed to fall off the grid post 2015 CWC and is obviously nowhere in the frame anymore. I had wondered what had happened to him (I don't follow NZ domestic cricket from here, nor am I interested in any of the T20 leagues - I only see the BBL for about an over or two at a time) so his appearance here was of interest to me.
Regardless of how "good" he was or wasn't (I checked the 2015 WCW stats and his record was mediocre) I was a fan as I liked the fact that we could send down a bowler as quick or in fact quicker than any anything the Aussies could manage.
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@booboo First Game in for the thunder Milne clocked over 150 k with his quickest at 153km. He has dropped pace since as he is not attacking the crease but holding back a bit more plus the wkts they are playing on as they move around in their bubbles from one state to another.
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Geez what a superb finish to the big bash tonite. Kept watching because Dan Christian came in. And once again he was spellbinding. What a way to bring up his 5000 runs with an amazing stretch for second run when it was needed then last ball boundary to win. I am enjoying sky cricket so much.
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@ARHS said in Big Bash 2020/2021:
Geez what a superb finish to the big bash tonite. Kept watching because Dan Christian came in. And once again he was spellbinding. What a way to bring up his 5000 runs with an amazing stretch for second run when it was needed then last ball boundary to win. I am enjoying sky cricket so much.
Dan Christian is 37 and still appearing in winning teams quite a lot.
Perfect format for him.
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The most Village start to a match possible from Aaron Finch - a huge wild swing has him bowled by Glen Maxwell on the first ball of the match.
It is now getting to that timeless stage of the Big Bash where the games are still on at the same time every night, the table feels meaningless, and the competition seems like it will end at Easter...
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@Donsteppa bah humbug🙂. It's great to have a decent tv viewing option every night of summer and if you catch a spectacular finish it's quite a luxury. I hear you about longevity but then again what sport's comp doesn't over egg the pudding?
They're great games to go to too.
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@Donsteppa said in Big Bash 2020/2021:
The most Village start to a match possible from Aaron Finch - a huge wild swing has him bowled by Glen Maxwell on the first ball of the match.
Second ball
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@Hooroo said in Big Bash 2020/2021:
@Donsteppa said in Big Bash 2020/2021:
The most Village start to a match possible from Aaron Finch - a huge wild swing has him bowled by Glen Maxwell on the first ball of the match.
Second ball
Yep, realised that later but was too lazy to correct it. Was the first ball I looked up at and such a horrible shot
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I've enjoyed having the big bash on every night. I've seen some incredible cricket. Some good finishes. But as a competition, i have no idea what's happening (i guess because i don't have a team to follow?). I couldn't tell you what the table looks like. Or how many rounds have been played.
It's very much like masturbation. It's pretty much always fun. Sometimes you do it because you need it. sometimes you do it because you're bored. But it still comes a distant 2nd to the real thing
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@mariner4life said in Big Bash 2020/2021:
I've enjoyed having the big bash on every night. I've seen some incredible cricket. Some good finishes. But as a competition, i have no idea what's happening (i guess because i don't have a team to follow?). I couldn't tell you what the table looks like. Or how many rounds have been played.
It's very much like masturbation. It's pretty much always fun. Sometimes you do it because you need it. sometimes you do it because you're bored. But it still comes a distant 2nd to the real thing
This analogy is so spot on it's not even funny.
Let's face it, the Black Caps recent test form has been fucken orgasmic.
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As if T20 doesn't already suck enough for the bowlers
The boy from the Heat bowls the first over every game, then gets subbed out.
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@mariner4life with the luxury of saying "I set it up" if they win, then "you guys fucked it" if they lose.
Heat kicking arse right now tho.
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Heazlet couldn't buy a run for the first half of his innings. He hit the accelerator when Pierson came in, and the Heat cruise home and are in to the prelim final.
Not bad for a team that got hammered in their first I think 3 games
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I turned off last night fairly early and never expected the Heat to pull through even though at that stage they'd knocked the top off the Thunder order. I was confident the Thunder would go through, clean up the Scorchers and we'd see an all-Sydney final. That Thunder batting order headlining Hales, Khawaja and Ferguson, with hitters like Cutting and Sams in the middle order, should have cleaned up all-comers. Never mind. On the bright side, Mark Waugh will be annoyed which pleases me.
Adam Milne - that 6/1 off 4 spell aside - was pretty underwhelming. I'm a little surprised he wasn't left out for McAndrew last night. To finish off his season he went wicketless yet again, conceded more than 9 an over and the score card reads that he was run out without facing a ball.
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@shark for 12 overs last night Bond and the bowlers' plans worked. The Heat could not score. But then, the danger of doing the same thing too often in T20 cricket kicked in, and the wide, full, off-speed stuff started get dispatched. Throw in a few too many full tosses, and it got ugly. In the end it was comfy. The Thunder really needed another 20 runs.
The batting power play is great, it can completely change the game.
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@shark said in Big Bash 2020/2021:
I turned off last night fairly early and never expected the Heat to pull through even though at that stage they'd knocked the top off the Thunder order. I was confident the Thunder would go through, clean up the Scorchers and we'd see an all-Sydney final. That Thunder batting order headlining Hales, Khawaja and Ferguson, with hitters like Cutting and Sams in the middle order, should have cleaned up all-comers. Never mind. On the bright side, Mark Waugh will be annoyed which pleases me.
Adam Milne - that 6/1 off 4 spell aside - was pretty underwhelming. I'm a little surprised he wasn't left out for McAndrew last night. To finish off his season he went wicketless yet again, conceded more than 9 an over and the score card reads that he was run out without facing a ball.
Not even the best player in his family and getting ripped apart online.
It's tough being "Junior" "Afghanistan" or ( my personal favourite ) "Audi" !!!
