World Test Championship
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@Godder said in World Test Championship:
So if it's close-ish, we're in, if it's a thrashing either way, we're out.
Depends on Aus.
We need at least two of Ind, Eng and Aus to remain below 70.
If Aus fail to win 2 nil or better we're in because, as @Bovidae (I think) pointed out above India and England can't both make 70+.
It's conceivable we finish top, and equally conceivable we finish 3rd.
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Australia postpone South Africa tour because of 'unacceptable' Covid-19 risk
Cricket Australia informs CSA that it had been left with no choice but to reschedule the tour
Think this means the BCs are off to Lords doesn’t it?
Edit, looking at the above table, then yes we’re in the final!!!
Whoop whoop.
A drawn India v England series, or Indian win means we play India, and England win means we play England.
Come on India!
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@Gunner said in World Test Championship:
Australia postpone South Africa tour because of 'unacceptable' Covid-19 risk
Cricket Australia informs CSA that it had been left with no choice but to reschedule the tour
Think this means the BCs are off to Lords doesn’t it?
Edit, looking at the above table, then yes we’re in the final!!!
Whoop whoop.
A drawn series or Indian series win means we play India, and England series win means we play England.
Come on India!
Rule change pending ...
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@MajorRage said in World Test Championship:
@Gunner said in World Test Championship:
Australia postpone South Africa tour because of 'unacceptable' Covid-19 risk
Cricket Australia informs CSA that it had been left with no choice but to reschedule the tour
Think this means the BCs are off to Lords doesn’t it?
Edit, looking at the above table, then yes we’re in the final!!!
Whoop whoop.
A drawn series or Indian series win means we play India, and England series win means we play England.
Come on India!
Rule change pending ...
Absolutely. The India v England series will also be cancelled or delayed now, which will give the ICC the perfect excuse to "show flexibility in exceptional circumstances" and screw over the BCs.
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Well let's hope the ICC doesn't do anything like that. Lightning can't strike twice in the same place can it?
Assuming this goes ahead, how do we manage the series vs England prior? Do we put some players in cotton wool with an eye on the bigger prize? Or so we need all the key guys to play both those tests? I'd think the latter, but jeez it'd be tempting to rotate 15 blokes and then select an XI for the final. Even more fascinating will be who we face. It could end up being three tests vs England but most likely is India winning at home and going thru. Australia can make it but this might require a drawn India vs England series? England at home would be tough. India or Australia in English conditions would be interesting. To be honest, it'd feel slightly hollow if we won without beating Australia given the horrendous pounding they gave us a year ago.
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@shark said in World Test Championship:
Well let's hope the ICC doesn't do anything like that. Lightning can't strike twice in the same place can it?
Assuming this goes ahead, how do we manage the series vs England prior? Do we put some players in cotton wool with an eye on the bigger prize? Or so we need all the key guys to play both those tests? I'd think the latter, but jeez it'd be tempting to rotate 15 blokes and then select an XI for the final. Even more fascinating will be who we face. It could end up being three tests vs England but most likely is India winning at home and going thru. Australia can make it but this might require a drawn India vs England series? England at home would be tough. India or Australia in English conditions would be interesting. To be honest, it'd feel slightly hollow if we won without beating Australia given the horrendous pounding they gave us a year ago.
Let the batsman bat in those conditions and I'd look to rotate the bowlers, or at the very least be resting anyone with the smallest niggle.
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@Bovidae said in World Test Championship:
Aust is still in with a chance to play us.
The bit that says "assuming...no further matches involving NZ or Australia" makes me suspicious.
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@Crazy-Horse In any other year it would make sense to try and shoehorn a series in NZ to replace the SA one. But fuck 'em I say
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@dogmeat said in World Test Championship:
@Crazy-Horse In any other year it would make sense to try and shoehorn a series in NZ to replace the SA one. But fuck 'em I say
Well we would!!! ;). In the 40th anniversary year of the underarm incident it would seem only fair
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@dogmeat said in World Test Championship:
@Crazy-Horse In any other year it would make sense to try and shoehorn a series in NZ to replace the SA one. But fuck 'em I say
I know this goes against the grain but test cricket is test cricket. If they shoe-horned a test series over here against Aussie, I would love it!
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@Hooroo Oh I would too.
Would be fantastic, especially if we reamed them - remove any hint that we were lucky to make the final.
However I would reserve the right to roundly condemn the decision makers at NZC and sacrifice their first born to Beelzebub for three generations if it all turned sour and we missed out on the final.
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@Hooroo said in World Test Championship:
@dogmeat said in World Test Championship:
@Crazy-Horse In any other year it would make sense to try and shoehorn a series in NZ to replace the SA one. But fuck 'em I say
I know this goes against the grain but test cricket is test cricket. If they shoe-horned a test series over here against Aussie, I would love it!
Yep agree. If we didn't win then we'd have lost home and away vs Australia and wouldn't deserve to be in any test championship final anyway.
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The T20 series vs Australia starts on 22/02 and finishes on 07/03. Then we have three ODIs and three T20s vs the Bangles from 13/03 to 28/03. There's no way we could play test cricket in NZ throughout April due to weather and light issues so that makes a test series vs Australia - in NZ - even more fanciful. Play it in Australia? Yeah ok, the weather would be ok in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth but most of their grounds will be committed to AFL by then. We'd have to play games in Hobart (weather and light?), Canberra (weather and light?) and Darwin or at suburban grounds like North Sydney Oval.
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@shark said in World Test Championship:
The T20 series vs Australia starts on 22/02 and finishes on 07/03. Then we have three ODIs and three T20s vs the Bangles from 13/03 to 28/03. There's no way we could play test cricket in NZ throughout April due to weather and light issues so that makes a test series vs Australia - in NZ - even more fanciful. Play it in Australia? Yeah ok, the weather would be ok in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth but most of their grounds will be committed to AFL by then. We'd have to play games in Hobart (weather and light?), Canberra (weather and light?) and Darwin or at suburban grounds like North Sydney Oval.
I guess we'll have to wait until we travel to England to play test cricket then
