Black Caps tour of England 2022
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@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
Well that’s a depressingly familiar looking scoreboard.
How come Mitch jr and Blundell keep showing up their supposedly more talented top order counterparts ?
John the younger had really surprised me. Far better than I expected, which is great
Absolutely. He’ll be eyeing up a third hundred this series alone which is crazy good for a guy I had pegged as a Styris type journeyman ( of course this is still possible )
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@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
Well that’s a depressingly familiar looking scoreboard.
How come Mitch jr and Blundell keep showing up their supposedly more talented top order counterparts ?
John the younger had really surprised me. Far better than I expected, which is great
Absolutely. He’ll be eyeing up a third hundred this series alone which is crazy good for a guy I had pegged as a Styris type journeyman ( of course this is still possible )
The list of three consecutive away centuries is short and ridiculous. And no offense to Mitch, but it's like Ajaz getting a tenfer
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Not many players average 70 as they approach 1000 test runs. Felt he should have been picked earlier like for the debacle in Perth. He exudes confidence at the crease and the lofted straight drive is a powerful art form. He must push mental pressure back on the bowlers. Always thought the talent was there when watching him for ND. But he has truly gone to another level as a shortform opener and test 5 or 6.
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from The Bounce (Dylan Cleaver - I'm a subscriber, support your local sports journos people!). If Mitchell gets the ton:
He’ll join this list of greats who have scored centuries in three consecutive away tests: Don Bradman, Jack Fingleton, Everton Weekes, Neil Harvey, Sunil Gavaskar, Jack Hobbs, Wally Hammond, Garry Sobers, Ken Barrington, Chris Broad, David Boon, Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Graeme Smith, Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook.
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@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
That Nicholls dismissal was genuinely bizarre. Very unlucky
He obviously used up all of his luck in previous test matches, benefitting from those numerous dropped catches.
An interesting article about Latham from a few days ago.
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@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
He’ll join this list of greats who have scored centuries in three consecutive away tests: Don Bradman, Jack Fingleton, Everton Weekes, Neil Harvey, Sunil Gavaskar, Jack Hobbs, Wally Hammond, Garry Sobers, Ken Barrington, Chris Broad, David Boon, Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Graeme Smith, Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook.
That also puts the "He's big, he's bad, he's better than his Dad, Stuart Broad, Stuart Broad" chant from the Barmy Army into a bit more perspective too...
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
He’ll join this list of greats who have scored centuries in three consecutive away tests: Don Bradman, Jack Fingleton, Everton Weekes, Neil Harvey, Sunil Gavaskar, Jack Hobbs, Wally Hammond, Garry Sobers, Ken Barrington, Chris Broad, David Boon, Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Graeme Smith, Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook.
That also puts the "He's big, he's bad, he's better than his Dad, Stuart Broad, Stuart Broad" chant from the Barmy Army into a bit more perspective too...
All varying degrees of decent up there…..Broad snr did have a funny career though
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@nzzp it definitely was, but I tell ya his inability to find the gap was pretty frustrating to watch.
Blundell comes in and within the first 3 or 4 overs he faced, he’d found the gaps more than Nicholl’s 100 ball inning.
The fact he went out like that, I actually laughed because he couldn’t find the gap on the initial shot or find the gap on the pinball deflection 😉
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@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
He’ll join this list of greats who have scored centuries in three consecutive away tests: Don Bradman, Jack Fingleton, Everton Weekes, Neil Harvey, Sunil Gavaskar, Jack Hobbs, Wally Hammond, Garry Sobers, Ken Barrington, Chris Broad, David Boon, Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Graeme Smith, Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook.
That also puts the "He's big, he's bad, he's better than his Dad, Stuart Broad, Stuart Broad" chant from the Barmy Army into a bit more perspective too...
All varying degrees of decent up there…..Broad snr did have a funny career though
Yeah, committed suicide by MCC.
Not quite OTD. (Our Type Dear).
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@Catogrande I remember him as club pro with Takapuna
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
Not only is Mitch Jr. closing in on three consecutive hundreds - he's closing in on averaging ten-times what little Kane has so far for this series!!!
If Tom Latham fucks up again in the second innings Mitch might average 20-times what Tom achieves!
Yeah our top order choosing to shit the bed all at the same time has not helped matters whatsoever.
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@MN5 They've been extraordinarily poor.
I can recall some snide remarks on the Fern about various past rugby teams not playing like worthy world champions during their post World Cup reigns.
We have played like fluke-artists ever since.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@MN5 They've been extraordinarily poor.
I can recall some snide remarks on the Fern about various past rugby teams not playing like worthy world champions during their post World Cup reigns.
We have played like fluke-artists ever since.
……and imagine how shite it would look without Johns son playing like he has ?
Time will tell and the jury is still out but in some ways the likes of Latham and Nicholls might be reaching their “level”.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
We have played like fluke-artists ever since.
while it was certainly not a fluke, some shit did align for us to win it
We won everything at home
The test win in Sri Lanka was huge
We got absolutely lamped in AustraliaIndia were the best side, but we beat them in NZ pretty well. Them beating Australia at home was the driver. Then Covid hits and Aus don't go to South Africa where they would have won. And a slow over-rate penalty.
Then it's a one off game, and we won it.
And it was all on the back of a bunch of our All Time XI playing awesome.
Since then Rossco and BJ are gone. Williamson has finally had a slump. Our old bowlers have got older (how the fuck are Anderson and Broad still doing it?). And a couple of guys had form they may never replicate in their careers.
The stars fucking aligned in a massive way.
No way was it sustainable. This wasn't some new dawn of NZ cricket. It was our best ever team all playing amazing at the same time. We have reverted to the mean. -
@mariner4life 100%, and that's why I'm still and always will be fucking salty about the CWC. That group of players was out best shot of winning the thing, I don't think we'll get another chance like that. And, technically we won the bloody thing but it was handed to England due to an inexplicable "boundaries hit" rule which was in place for just that CWC and was immediately disacrded afterwards. Not to mention the umpires giving England an extra run when the ball deflected off Stokes bat.
A CWC and Test Championship would have been a fucking sweet way to cap off a golden era for us.
Still, winning the first test championship was fucking epic and other fans, particularly the Indians, are still crying about it.
