World Test Championship
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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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@Bovidae said in World Test Championship:
Heaps of pressure on India for the 2nd test because lose that and they are gone...
Pressure on both of them then.
If the Black Caps gel they’re capable of downing either team convincingly, I just hope the dizzying heights don’t get to them.
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@Bovidae said in World Test Championship:
Heaps of pressure on India for the 2nd test because lose that and they are gone...
Shit, is it that cut and dried?
The way England have been playing in subcontinent conditions for nigh on 2 months now makes me think we'll be playing them at Lords. Oh well, wonder what the count back criteria will be this time? Number of lions on a shirt?
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@Siam said in World Test Championship:
@Bovidae said in World Test Championship:
Heaps of pressure on India for the 2nd test because lose that and they are gone...
Shit, is it that cut and dried?
See the graphic I posted earlier. India now need to win the series 2-1 or 3-1 to qualify for the final.
England still needs to win 2 of the last 3 tests.
