T20 World Cup 2021
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NZ picked a weird squad IMO, and now from that squad even a weird 11. Punching below their weight. The last 2 months of self inflicted weirdness. The NZCPA restricting fringe players from playing, poorly selected world cup squad, then the Pak pullout.
Although even our IPL players were poor in the second half of IPL, so that part not in selectors or management's control.
Not that I've watched the game... 3am starts. Spark giving us the choice of streaming full replays or streaming 5 min highlights. I've watched a few of the 5 min highlights packages and they are just a contextless blur. Think this tournament will be passing me by.
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@bayimports said in T20 World Cup 2021:
@duluth said in T20 World Cup 2021:
High-flying Pakistan set for versatile New Zealand
T20 World Cup 2021/22 New Zealand vs Pakistan Match Preview: Pakistan will have to quickly adjust from the highs of their historic win
f**k you Danyal Rasool.."punch above their weight" , although anything can happen in T20, at some stage these mofos are going to have to respect our achievements
Bugger.....
Pakistan took that one rather comfortably.
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@rapido said in T20 World Cup 2021:
NZ picked a weird squad IMO, and now from that squad even a weird 11. Punching below their weight. The last 2 months of self inflicted weirdness. The NZCPA restricting fringe players from playing, poorly selected world cup squad, then the Pak pullout.
Although even our IPL players were poor in the second half of IPL, so that part not in selectors or management's control.
Not that I've watched the game... 3am starts. Spark giving us the choice of streaming full replays or streaming 5 min highlights. I've watched a few of the 5 min highlights packages and they are just a contextless blur. Think this tournament will be passing me by.
As I alluded to earlierâŚ.winning would be nice but itâs all a bit âSevens Rugbyâ to me to be honest.
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@mn5 said in T20 World Cup 2021:
@rapido said in T20 World Cup 2021:
NZ picked a weird squad IMO, and now from that squad even a weird 11. Punching below their weight. The last 2 months of self inflicted weirdness. The NZCPA restricting fringe players from playing, poorly selected world cup squad, then the Pak pullout.
Although even our IPL players were poor in the second half of IPL, so that part not in selectors or management's control.
Not that I've watched the game... 3am starts. Spark giving us the choice of streaming full replays or streaming 5 min highlights. I've watched a few of the 5 min highlights packages and they are just a contextless blur. Think this tournament will be passing me by.
As I alluded to earlierâŚ.winning would be nice but itâs all a bit âSevens Rugbyâ to me to be honest.
Agree in some ways.
Being winners of the Test championship is the big kahuna, being tied winners of ODI is next best, and this is a distant third to me. Ironically, it's the one I thought we'd have the best chance at - in shorter formats, luck plays more of a role
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What was Conway doing batting low like he was ?
The team looks a bit âbits and piecesâ to me in classic ( 90s 2000s ) Black Caps tradition. Weâll see if they come right.
Mind you the Windies didnât exactly play well either. Lendle Simmons thought he was Geoffrey Boycott, 16 off 35 !!
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@chris-b said in T20 World Cup 2021:
Fergburger is out of the Cup without bowling a ball. I thought his pace would be pretty important for us - so a decent sized nail in the coffin.
Replaced by Milne.
Damn. Far and away our best player. Our one true world class player in this format.
What's the story? I'm too scared to google search in case it is stress fracture?
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@rapido Little Kane probably gets close to world class at his best, but not this year.
Guppy also got hit flush on the foot by one of the Pakistan quicks and hobbled off after fielding half a dozen overs, so that's something worrying as well.
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I wasn't surprised when I heard the result this morning but was very surprised with the team that was selected. I wouldn't have had Southee anywhere near the starting XI but looking at the scorecard he was close to our best bowler.
As @MN5 says, I would open with Conway to give us a left/right combo. Mitchell at least got a score.
You need to bowl well to defend sub-150 scores, particularly on pitches the Pakistanis are so familiar with.
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Nervous to post this here, as it goes between sport and politics, but de Kock pulls out of game rather than be forced to take a knee.
Mandatory protests are a bit shit, but so is letting your team down and shitty systemic racism. I don't know any more, 2021 is just so farked up.
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@bovidae I wouldn't have been trusting Neesham to bowl four overs (presumably with Mitch Jr and Phillips as back-ups).
Not sure if there is anything more worthless in cricket than T20 player rankings, but apparently Timmy is our highest ranked bowler (10th in the world). Figure that out...
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@rapido said in T20 World Cup 2021:
NZ picked a weird squad IMO, and now from that squad even a weird 11. Punching below their weight.
I think a lot of it is explained by it being a relatively meaningless tournament for NZ but with large match payments and bonuses. If senior players can be selected with a straight face and are willing to go through the MIQ it's hard to deny them a biennial windfall.
Also hard to pick on any sort of form when there have been bugger all cricket due to COVID and the Pakistan pull out CDG is probably the only NZ eligible player not selected in the squad who played franchise cricket over the winter.
