Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final
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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..
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@rapido said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
Hope they tag the correct Tim Paine this time.
Actually, no I don't. I don't give a fuck.
About either fucking twitter, or about being so insecure that someone else's opinion was that another team might win.
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aussies works mates claiming they didn't know the WTC was a thing
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@kiwiwomble said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
aussies works mates claiming they didn't know the WTC was a thing
For them it wasn't.
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@kiwiwomble said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
aussies works mates claiming they didn't know the WTC was a thing
Well if Aus aren't in it - it gets no coverage.
Just like America's Cup, Super Rugby Trans Ta$man Final etc etc etc
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@mn5 said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@nepia get in there. Kiwis love a bandwagon especially when the Americas Cup is on or Lydia Ko does well at Golf.
I missed the America’s Cup bandwagon so I’ve got some credit saved for this
Now to find out the names of our players other than Kane and Roscoe 🤣
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@sparky said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
Is that a little sawdust in my eye? Martin Crowe in 2015 imaging Kane Williamson steering NZ home to win a Cricket World Cup.
The serenity of Kane Williamson
He is assured, humble and intelligent: a player opposition captains and bowlers find hard to combat
Such an on point article.
Feels like sawdust in the air here too
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@rapido said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
Hope they tag the correct Tim Paine this time.
Actually, no I don't. I don't give a fuck.
About either fucking twitter, or about being so insecure that someone else's opinion was that another team might win.
Today is a day when we can afford to be totally magnanimous.
Kane would want us to be.
On that note - shout out to @newsjunkie who I'm sure will be as gutted as we would have been if we'd lost. Commiserations!
You guys had a lot of the same adversity we had in that pink ball disaster in Perth - preparation, toss, conditions...
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@chris-b said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@rapido said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
Hope they tag the correct Tim Paine this time.
Actually, no I don't. I don't give a fuck.
About either fucking twitter, or about being so insecure that someone else's opinion was that another team might win.
Today is a day when we can afford to be totally magnanimous.
Kane would want us to be.
On that note - shout out to @newsjunkie who I'm sure will be as gutted as we would have been if we'd lost. Commiserations!
You guys had a lot of the same adversity we had in that pink ball disaster in Perth - preparation, toss, conditions...
for our vanquished foes? Nothing but respect. Great team of really good players who have destroyed the myth that India are only good at home. We had the better prep, and made better use of conditions.
It's the 3rd parties who are copping it hardest
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@bayimports said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
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!
I think Ross said this is the absolute top highlight of his career.
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@kiwimurph said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
@kiwiwomble said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:
aussies works mates claiming they didn't know the WTC was a thing
Well if Aus aren't in it - it gets no coverage.
Just like America's Cup, Super Rugby Trans Ta$man Final etc etc etc
Yep, on Sunday morning I had Sky News Australia on and they covered AFL, NRL, A League, international tennis and golf but didn't mention the WTC. Fucken sad.
