Black Caps v Ireland

Donsteppa

Will Young struggles to score and then runs himself out with a desperate attempted single to mid off that was never there. Another unconvincing knock this Northern summer, with 3 from 12.

Donsteppa

Latham 30 (26), a good start, but doesn't kick on. He'll need to step up against the decent teams at this rate. 146/3 after 23.1 overs.

Can Henry Nicholls turn his wretched form around?

Donsteppa

Nicholls bashes his way back into some form with 79 from 54.

Donsteppa

360/6 in the end. At one stage it looked like 380 might have even been on the cards, but consistently high scoring the whole way through the innings. Michael Bracewell once again finishes the innings with a not out.

nzzp

Just checked Cricinfo

Ireland 3 down, caps dropping sitters and 98 off 12 overs. Could be a brutal loss from here

nzzp

Classic black craps.

Santner goes 6 1 1 W to start the next over.

Need to put pressure on the new man and pray

Bones

Fuck you Foster

nzzp

Last ball, 2 to tie...

nzzp

Ireland get a bye and fall 1 short.

Damn.

Sounded sloppy on Cricinfo

Edit: sloppy by the kiwis

Bones

@nzzp said in Black Caps v Ireland:

Ireland get a bye and fall 1 short.

Damn.

Sounded sloppy on Cricinfo

Edit: sloppy by the kiwis

Threw a dodgy feed on for the last 5 minutes and got to the stage where I assumed we'd lose. They had 5 off 3 remaining with 2 wickets and our field had just dropped a catch to go for 4. How do we score 360 and almost lose? To Ireland?

nzzp

@Bones Foster.

Donsteppa

So a convincing three - nil series thrashing of Ireland by one wicket, three wickets, and by one run...

Bovidae

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Ireland:

So a convincing three - nil series thrashing of Ireland by one wicket, three wickets, and by one run...

And save Latham's blushes again.

Crazy Horse

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Ireland:

So a convincing three - nil series thrashing of Ireland by one wicket, three wickets, and by one run...

We are not far off minnow status.

MN5

@Crazy-Horse said in Black Caps v Ireland:

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Ireland:

So a convincing three - nil series thrashing of Ireland by one wicket, three wickets, and by one run...

We are not far off minnow status.

Yeah the Black Caps ‘depth’ is a contradiction in terms when good players aren’t there

Donsteppa

@MN5 said in Black Caps v Ireland:

@Crazy-Horse said in Black Caps v Ireland:

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Ireland:

So a convincing three - nil series thrashing of Ireland by one wicket, three wickets, and by one run...

We are not far off minnow status.

Yeah the Black Caps ‘depth’ is a contradiction in terms when good players aren’t there

Our rest and rotation policy assumes a depth that isn't there. And apparently gives the IPL franchises priority...

Crucial

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Ireland:

@MN5 said in Black Caps v Ireland:

@Crazy-Horse said in Black Caps v Ireland:

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Ireland:

So a convincing three - nil series thrashing of Ireland by one wicket, three wickets, and by one run...

We are not far off minnow status.

Yeah the Black Caps ‘depth’ is a contradiction in terms when good players aren’t there

Our rest and rotation policy assumes a depth that isn't there. And apparently gives the IPL franchises priority...

If not priority to IPL it's priority to the players having to rest after IPL

Bones

Just look at what Foster has done to the BC's resolve. Yuck.

MN5

@Bones said in Black Caps v Ireland:

Just look at what Foster has done to the BC's resolve. Yuck.

This is a cricket thread @Bones

Bones

@MN5 it's a raging one at that. I was only glancing at the score and thought it must have been a ODI. Oops.

The Silver Fern

Black Caps v Ireland