Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final
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@junior said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@mn5 said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
Fuck the shits and giggle 50 over stuff of 2019. This is, and will always be, the most important version of the game…..and guess what ?
We’re officially the best. God damn I’m proud of what these guys have just done.
I will never forget 2019 and I’m sure the team won’t either. But this has gone some way to exorcising those demons
Funnily enough, I have no demons at all about that.
I've simply refused to concede that we lost a Cricket World Cup to book-keeping.
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@synicbast said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@mn5 said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@synicbast said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
This still makes me a bit sad though
What a way to go out though. Part of me wonders if Rossco is next ?
I want him to retire in front of a home crowd with his family present.
It will be hard to top going out like this
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Kane's press conference. All class of course:
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A couple of vids, winning runs and highlights ( in Hindi)
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Virat Kohli calls for best-of-three finals to decide future World Test Championships
India captain acknowledges NZ were the better side but says great Tests come in series
How many of India's ODI World Cup wins have been in a best of 3 final series...
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@virgil Virat, i actually really like you
but you can jump in the sea with the other piston wristed gibbons i have already pointed out. You knew the rules fluffybunny, we horse-whipped you by 8 wickets despite 95% of the test being ruined by English weather.
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@chris-b said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@mariner4life I like him too.
To be fair, he did actually say this beforehand.
Nice gif!
it was the first thing that popped in to my head! god i love that movie
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@mariner4life said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@chris-b said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@mariner4life I like him too.
To be fair, he did actually say this beforehand.
Nice gif!
it was the first thing that popped in to my head! god i love that movie
Bill and Ted isnt it?
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Good article
Dig deep, get down and dirty - no one does it better than New Zealand https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/wtc-final-ind-vs-nz-it-was-a-day-for-digging-deep-and-no-one-does-it-better-than-new-zealand-1267706
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A better representation of Kohli, speaking after the match:
Virat Kohli: "First up, big congratulations to Kane and the whole team. They showed great consistency and heart to pull out a result in just over three days, sticking to their processes to put us under pressure. They deserved the win. The first day got washed out, and when play resumed it was difficult to get any momentum. We lost only three wickets, but we could have got more runs if play had gone on without the interruptions. Today, the Kiwi bowlers executed their plans to perfection and pushed us back, and we were probably 30 or 40 runs short. [On not picking four quicks:] You need to have a fast-bowling allrounder for that. We've been successful with this combination in different conditions. We thought this was our best combination, and we had batting depth as well, and if there was more game time, the spinners would have come into the game more as well. [Jamieson] is a quality cricketer. He hits really good areas with the ball and he's a gutsy batsman as well. He's had a great game and thoroughly deserved to be Man of the Match. It's great for the game, the more the Test format is given importance, and the Test format is the heartbeat of the international format. We're looking forward to the long summer ahead. We've got the squad and the quality to do something special."
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@siam he's good value Virat. And he gets right up the Aussies which i love. He's also a fucking genius with the bat.
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wow.. what a win! This really is a milestone moment for all those involved. Champions of test cricket (in my mind real cricket). For those retiring or about to retire this would undoubtebly be right up there in terms of highlights. Really happy for them and hopefully puts to bed some demons from previous games.
Hopefully this also leads to enhanced tours in the future and opportunities to show how good this team is.
Well done!
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@virgil said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
Virat Kohli calls for best-of-three finals to decide future World Test Championships
India captain acknowledges NZ were the better side but says great Tests come in series
How many of India's ODI World Cup wins have been in a best of 3 final series...
Oh the irony! We want to play more tests against NZ to prove who is best.
Funny how you don't say the same for the regular test calendar. -
Swimming in coffee now to stay awake after the last two nights.
Looking back on an eight wicket win in ten years time will make that game sound a lot easier than it felt. I think it was @No-Quarter who mentioned the top quality Ferning last night. The collective TSF rollercoaster of euphoria, panic, ruing chances, rehashing selection decisions from last week, and sending people to bed in a very small way reflected the battle of attrition that was going on in the real world.
Seems entirely fitting that the Ross and Kane show got us home. An eight wicket win also takes any possible 'jammy winners' accusations out of the mix too.
An eight wicket win is all the more remarkable given the quality of that Indian team. I'm still in awe of what they managed to do at the Gabba. I read an interesting comment on one of the social media feeds from an Indian fan lamenting that some of the young players who did so well in Australia weren't playing today. I don't think they quite had a 2002 end of year All Blacks tour moment - playing the rookies and discovering that they're suddenly better than some of the old hands - but I also wonder if that Gabba lower order might have saved them with another 20 runs from the bat in each innings.
The quiet happy glow from that one will last for a long time. Taylor will have some interesting reflections to make. While I think he'll ultimately decide to retire at home, it'll be hard to beat hitting those winning runs for a last shot in international cricket.
If there's panic buying of coffee beans in local supermarkets today, it will be entirely cricket related.
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@mariner4life said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@siam he's good value Virat. And he gets right up the Aussies which i love. He's also a fucking genius with the bat.
Takes a genius to remove a genius.
KJ is my absolute hero, the bobs and vagene crew are losing it on line and saying he needs to be dropped from the IPL team. They’ve also said horrible things about his family too. Feral Indian fans are the absolute worst.
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@mariner4life said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
i would like to start this presentation by acknowledging Tim Paine
Tim, i am going to bend over, you get on your knees, lean forward, and suck a fart directly from my ass. And then turn your head, and with that fart in your mouth, pash Mark Nicholas. And you two just share that fart between you.
All the haters, the doubters, the there-by-default, vaguaries-of-the-draw piston wristed gibbons can get on their knees and choke on a hard piece of kiwi glory
Because right now, we are the best cricketing nation on earth. We won your fucking test tournament. We had the ODI World Cup stolen off us, and oh look, in the hit and giggle stuff we are top 3 as well. You keep disrespecting us, you keep giving us 2 test "tours" at the start or end of the summer. you keep deluding yourself that India, England and Australia deserve to be somewhere we are not. None of that matters, because, as the old saying goes, runs on the board matter. And we have considerably more than you.
Meanwhile on twitter..... im sure its not related at all to this morning's event..
