Black Caps v Bangladesh 2021
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@majorrage said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@siam said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@majorrage said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@siam said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
Taking the field with Conway wicket keeping is not a good strategy. He's not got the technique or finesse. I was sure that Phillips kept for a couple of CPL seasons - not sure why he doesn't do it because Conway looked like a real part timer.
Think the rain will scupper my commentators curse though.
Bangles putting in their usual pea hearted performance. I know the limitations of the Italy of world cricket but for decades I've watched these guys phone it in in NZ. Then they're a different team at home. I think they only try when they've got local fans to answer directly to. Tours are for bank, home is for avoiding effigies.
@mn5 said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
To paraphrase Jeff Thomson ( I think ) the BCs could turn up pissed and beat these guys. Complete waste of time
These messages have a real opportunity to age very bad ...
Ya reckon? How is anything the bangles do today going to atone for 20 years of half arsedness in NZ?
Mental note. Don't ever joke about posts writing off the opposition in the cricket thread.
🙂 just pick a decent opponent 👍 (and use emojis, I can't see your smile beneath the covid mask 😄)
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@nzzp said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@donsteppa said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
The start Bangladesh made in international cricket was to be expected. My sense of them is that they went on to plateau at the sort of times when Sri Lanka made the next step up in their new-to-international-cricket journey.
Wins against Aus, Eng, Zim, Windies and SL. They've got 160 million people - competent administrators should be able to get a stream of talent. Their U19 side just won the 2020 tournament; overall, they should get better and get better soon.
This team just doens't look like it wants to be here unfortunately. The fielding has not been at international level, and that isn't determined by the grounds they are playing on
This is my point. The vagaries of their skill levels isn't the issue, it's the effort and attitudes to the team aspect that differs so much home and away. Since noticing them fucking around in the field about 10 years ago I started watching that aspect of their game. Very little improvement there. Actually I've played with and against a fair few of their players from that time and they're awesome. Really little but really skilful. They've had a lot of ICC resources given to them but the stand out feature of their play in NZ is lackadaisical, giggling at blunders and long periods of club level catching and fielding. So be it, up to them but there's no free pass because other teams were once not very good.
I do sympathise with the players as the admins often display power hungry antics and regularly publicly throw players under buses, so to speak. Actually having met some of the fish heads and stories from Dhaka, perhaps the team is mostly a play thing for the elite administrators.
The on field performances in NZ , rest solely on the players, (not on other country's historical records) and too often they appear to be just going through the motions.
I want them to get better, as do their Bangladeshi fans.
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@bovidae said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@siam said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
Taking the field with Conway wicket keeping is not a good strategy. He's not got the technique or finesse. I was sure that Phillips kept for a couple of CPL seasons - not sure why he doesn't do it because Conway looked like a real part timer.
IIRC Phillips' knee problems means he can't be a regular WK.
I think they also wanted him to bowl.
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@snowy said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@bovidae said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@siam said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
Taking the field with Conway wicket keeping is not a good strategy. He's not got the technique or finesse. I was sure that Phillips kept for a couple of CPL seasons - not sure why he doesn't do it because Conway looked like a real part timer.
IIRC Phillips' knee problems means he can't be a regular WK.
I think they also wanted him to bowl.
3 overs 1/20 @ 6.67 would say that he is more than handy and they had it right.Did you see his 3 overs? There were some terrible balls in there.
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@dogmeat said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@donsteppa cricinfo stats are down but I had the same thought.
NZ didn't play all that much and WWII intervened. Our first victory was in our 45th Test against Windies.
Of those 45 21 were against the Poms, 1 against Oz, p SA, 6 WI, 3 Pak, 5 India. All the games against the two South Asian sides were played away.
Bangles won their first test at the 35th attempt at home against Zimbabwe. They didn't win again until their 60th Test against a very poor Windies side
What does this mean. Bugger all except you can't compare records acrodss different eras.
Well yeah NZ were extremely poor for ages, when John Reid died he was painted as some kind of world class all rounder when all he was in all honesty was the best player in a shite side.
It’s funny the WIndies are mentioned. Historically they’ve had a shitload more cricketing legends than we’ve had, but compare the two test teams now ?
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@crazy-horse said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@snowy said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@bovidae said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
@siam said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
Taking the field with Conway wicket keeping is not a good strategy. He's not got the technique or finesse. I was sure that Phillips kept for a couple of CPL seasons - not sure why he doesn't do it because Conway looked like a real part timer.
IIRC Phillips' knee problems means he can't be a regular WK.
I think they also wanted him to bowl.
3 overs 1/20 @ 6.67 would say that he is more than handy and they had it right.Did you see his 3 overs? There were some terrible balls in there.
Yeah I did, but he got away with them and the end result was pretty good. Statistics and damn lies I guess.
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Anyone in Auckland think there is any likelihood of play today?
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@canes4life said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
Anyone in Auckland think there is any likelihood of play today?
I'm astonished but delighted to see us get underway.
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Finn Allen on fire. Black Caps smoking it around Eden Park.
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Our biggest problem is our population size. There's just not as much money to be made in TV rights when we are playing, do we often just get minnows. I'd say us making the championship test final was a bit of a disaster for a lot of broadcasters.
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@no-quarter It seems to be either Sri Lanka, Pakistan or Bangladesh...COVID aside SA haven’t been here since 2017.
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@no-quarter said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
Our biggest problem is our population size. There's just not as much money to be made in TV rights when we are playing, do we often just get minnows. I'd say us making the championship test final was a bit of a disaster for a lot of broadcasters.
Broadcasters would have loved England v India at Lord's.
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@no-quarter said in Black Caps v Bangladesh:
Our biggest problem is our population size. There's just not as much money to be made in TV rights when we are playing, do we often just get minnows. I'd say us making the championship test final was a bit of a disaster for a lot of broadcasters.
All true.
The best way to beat that is to be the best I suppose. Aus don't have a huge population but I generally watch them play anyone, because they are always good and to see if they get knocked over. Same with the AB's, they draw big crowds, and TB audiences because they are damned good - and entertaining. I don't watch much NBL anymore but I watched MJ and the bulls.If we can lose our own "minnows" tag we will go some way to negating our population based financial issues.
Back to back ODI WC finals helps. A win in the TWC would help even more. Throw in a T20WC...We might get some respect, some more viewers and be more attractive to visiting teams and broadcasters alike.
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@snowy said in Black Caps v Bangladesh
Back to back ODI WC finals helps. A win in the TWC would help even more. Throw in a T20WC...We might get some respect, some more viewers and be more attractive to visiting teams and broadcasters alike.
I reckon we would have to be successful over a couple of generations of players for us to get true respect. See what we are like when the likes of Boult, Southee, Taylor gone and we have an aging Williamson. If we replace those players and stay near the top other countries will start to take notice and perhaps believe that the current team is not an anomaly.
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@crazy-horse Sure, it's not going to happen overnight. Hopefully having a great team now inspires the next generation as well though, so success breeding success.
List of Bangladesh Test cricket records - Wikipedia
