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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
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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.
Darwin, Cairns, Townsville?
They've played there previously. Admittedly v Bangles.
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@booboo too wet. you couldn't bank on a couple of weeks of dry weather. also hot as fuck until May
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Terrific stuff.
Any Australians whinging about this can only blame their own team for not putting India ( C or D depending on who you believe ) to the sword at home.
The Black Caps on the other hand won three out of four tests by an innings and the other very comprehensively. Good shit.
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@mariner4life said in World Test Championship:
@booboo too wet. you couldn't bank on a couple of weeks of dry weather. also hot as fuck until May
May have been later in the year ... Will have to google
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@Cyclops said in World Test Championship:
Would a replacement series even be worth wtc points? I thought that the wtc schedule was set in advance years ago.
Could we push the Bangladesh series back a couple of weeks and get a test series in after?
I'd hate to miss us play a bunch of meaningless short form games against Bangladesh just to shoehorn a test series in.
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@booboo said in World Test Championship:
@mariner4life said in World Test Championship:
@booboo too wet. you couldn't bank on a couple of weeks of dry weather. also hot as fuck until May
May have been later in the year ... Will have to google
July. In 2003 v Bangers and 2004 v SL. In Cairns and Darwin.
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@Cyclops said in World Test Championship:
Would a replacement series even be worth wtc points? I thought that the wtc schedule was set in advance years ago.
Could we push the Bangladesh series back a couple of weeks and get a test series in after?
Given the amount of MIQ issues, probably not.
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@Siam said in World Test Championship:
As of today we play the poms.
Who would you rather us play?
Bit of a 50/50 call because both teams will have a home crowd. Poms obviously know the conditions but India have a decent pace attack.
Probably prefer to play the Indians over there
Agreed. We’re a better team than England but I’d really worry about playing them in their conditions.
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