Black Caps tour of England 2022
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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.
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@mariner4life Yeah - surprisingly, we also prepared better than the Indians for that one-off test and it was played in conditions more suited to us.
On Kane's slump - is his elbow becoming the equivalent of Marty Crowe's knee - without all the accompanying Women's Day articles?
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@mariner4life Yeah - surprisingly, we also prepared better than the Indians for that one-off test and it was played in conditions more suited to us.
On Kane's slump - is his elbow becoming the equivalent of Marty Crowe's knee - without all the accompanying Women's Day articles?
How’s his love life and his hair line ?
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@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.
Bad Indian cricket fans are the absolute worst and that’s saying something.
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
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.
Let it go bro. Let it go 😉
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@ACT-Crusader said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
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.
Let it go bro. Let it go 😉
Never!
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@ACT-Crusader said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
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.
Let it go bro. Let it go 😉
The trauma of that event will be passed to my children, my grandchildren, and my great grandchildren and will live on for generations to come
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@mariner4life said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:
@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.absolutely, but this is also why I can never understand we don't play our best players if they're available ..wagz!
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Oh yeah.
There's a test.
Will ignore anything from last time I looked at this thread ...
... which was about when I got the shits about 12 days ago ...
And even going to bed didn't work...
But have become biggest fanboy of Mitch Jr.
And am warming to Blundell. He's no BJ but he's batting like him.
