Black Caps v England
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@ARHS said in Black Caps v England:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps v England:
To expand on this, bowling first should only be considered in extremely bowler friendly conditions where you are confident you will roll them for less than 200, less than 150 ideally. Bowling first in both of these tests is just idiotic
At the Basin? Really?
I know teams bowling first at the Basin have historically had more success, but that's also pretty team dependant. Quite a few recent wins bowling first were lop sided affairs between mis-matched sides, eg. us slapping the Bangles (twice) and WI, or Aus slapping us, those results probably stay the same regardless of who bowls first. Of the last 15 tests it looks like 6 won by team bowling first, 4 by team batting first, and 5 draws. Given how much flatter the deck is these days I think we give up our overall advantage in the test as the likelihood of us skittling a team like England in the first hour is pretty low.
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@No-Quarter we have 4 front line bowlers so want to bowl when conditions are most favourable. Or so I thought. Just phenomenal again from Brook.
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We picked eight batsmen. This was always going to turn to shit
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Robinson apologises for Blundell dropping him by popping another goober next ball to Timmah.
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Horrible drop by Blundell though. Given his work up to the stumps am surprised at his apparent occasional sloppiness standing back.
Should have left it to Mitch at slip too.
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Weird scoreboard.
Take out Root and Brook ...
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@Gunner said in Black Caps v England:
Glad I got to see our golden period, coz we’ve come crashing back to our usual mediocre rubbish cricket pretty quickly.
From Black Caps to Black Craps in a very short time. Might have to start watching reruns of the last CTC cycle instead
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@canefan said in Black Caps v England:
@Gunner said in Black Caps v England:
Glad I got to see our golden period, coz we’ve come crashing back to our usual mediocre rubbish cricket pretty quickly.
From Black Caps to Black Craps in a very short time. Might have to start watching reruns of the last CTC cycle instead
We can always take comfort knowing we won the first ever WTC.
If anyone can find any more straws to clutch at I’m all ears.
Oh, there’s one, we’re 21/3 now, so were England and look how they turned out !!!!
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@Chris said in Black Caps v England:
Young nicks off yet again good ball by Anderson but Young completely lost his off stump again.
I mentioned a few days ago England would have his measure.
Young has a big weakness to anything on off stump to 5th stump on a good length.Andersons forms since turning 40 is quite obscene.
I wonder if Paddles is sitting at home wishing he’d played for a bit longer and pushed for 500 wickets at 21 ?
Bowlers at that age are supposed to break, lose form etc. Why is Anderson bucking the trend like this ?
685 wickets at 25.86, he’s gone from good to very good to great.
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So far so good from Latham and Nicholls.
Re Paddles, I have a vague memory of some sort of surgery or health scare not long after his retirement, so he probably timed it right. Biggest handbrake back in the day was probably one home test series, three matches max per summer... weather allowing.
Anderson may have quietly discovered a fountain of youth.
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v England:
So far so good from Latham and Nicholls.
Re Paddles, I have a vague memory of some sort of surgery or health scare not long after his retirement, so he probably timed it right. Biggest handbrake back in the day was probably one home test series, three matches max per summer... weather allowing.
Anderson may have quietly discovered a fountain of youth.
Yeah not saying Anderson is quite in Paddles class but he’s a damn sight closer than he was a few years back. Excellent player.
Google tells me Paddles turned 39 during his last test, I could have sworn he played after 40……
Anyway, Latham gone but we have two guys with very good records ( on paper ) still to come.
Big mountain to climb though.
A bit of drizzle out my way too and looking ominous.
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When does the test start? Because this is no test for England. Easy money.
