Black Caps tour of India
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@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:
@booboo said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Godder said in Black Caps tour of India:
For some reason, I had it in my head that we were 3 days in and batting on day 4 with a lead of 300, so was thinking it would be good to declare around lunch...
Given it's only day 3 today, may as well bat to tea or so.
Bat all day and set 500
Yup. Crush their will to live if we can (it will weaken them for the final game), let our batsmen get some runs, set a massive total, and we can still leave ourselves 2 days to bowl them out
This would have been a laughable post even a week ago, but India are out of sorts and we’ve lifted massively.
Sport sure can be funny and fickle !
Don't I know it, I was calling them the Black Craps two games ago 😂
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@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:
@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:
@booboo said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Godder said in Black Caps tour of India:
For some reason, I had it in my head that we were 3 days in and batting on day 4 with a lead of 300, so was thinking it would be good to declare around lunch...
Given it's only day 3 today, may as well bat to tea or so.
Bat all day and set 500
Yup. Crush their will to live if we can (it will weaken them for the final game), let our batsmen get some runs, set a massive total, and we can still leave ourselves 2 days to bowl them out
This would have been a laughable post even a week ago, but India are out of sorts and we’ve lifted massively.
Sport sure can be funny and fickle !
Don't I know it, I was calling them the Black Craps two games ago 😂
I was gutted santner was playing. Go the caps!
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@No-Quarter Are you going to hire a Secretary to post on both for you?
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@Darren said in Black Caps tour of India:
@booboo said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Godder said in Black Caps tour of India:
For some reason, I had it in my head that we were 3 days in and batting on day 4 with a lead of 300, so was thinking it would be good to declare around lunch...
Given it's only day 3 today, may as well bat to tea or so.
Bat all day and set 500
That would be awesome
But 198/5Yeah, you're right. Let's hang out for 6-hundy plus
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:
The dumbest thing about the SkySportNow app is that you can only stream it on one device at a time, which is just so absurd as it just forces you back into the dark ages despite the technology available to have it on mote than one. I absolutely despise Sky for doing that. I have worked out though that if you just keep re-trying on each device when you get the message saying it's already playing on another, then often you can get through and it starts playing on both. So I'll try that and have both the cricket and rugby on.
Yep, and the pricks seem to have cut down the number of hours that you can go back on the schedule, from 24 to 6 (maybe 8 - not fucking enough anyway). Storage is so much cheaper now why are they cutting back the product, pissing off customers and for so little gain?
Rant over. Go "Craps" (seems unfair at present, but I'm not going to change anything that might jinx things).
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@Snowy said in Black Caps tour of India:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:
The dumbest thing about the SkySportNow app is that you can only stream it on one device at a time, which is just so absurd as it just forces you back into the dark ages despite the technology available to have it on mote than one. I absolutely despise Sky for doing that. I have worked out though that if you just keep re-trying on each device when you get the message saying it's already playing on another, then often you can get through and it starts playing on both. So I'll try that and have both the cricket and rugby on.
Yep, and the pricks seem to have cut down the number of hours that you can go back on the schedule, from 24 to 6 (maybe 8 - not fucking enough anyway). Storage is so much cheaper now why are they cutting back the product, pissing off customers and for so little gain?
Rant over. Go "Craps" (seems unfair at present, but I'm not going to change anything that might jinx things).
Their app is so poor, they don't seem to have learned anything from the very good Spark platform
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
So which to watch and which to flick over to check the score - the cricket or the rugby?
Sorry about your NPC lads!
Doesn't the cricket start just as the NPC final finishes?
I've liked the strategy that the NZ batters have had for the spinners. It is almost a paint by numbers of sweep, reverse sweep or come down the wicket mixed with defence. Has been effective so far at disrupting their line and length and we've managed a very healthy strike rate without too many risks.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
@No-Quarter Are you going to hire a Secretary to post on both for you?
Perhaps I could get my 11 year old to cover the rugby thread. The instructions would be simple: bemoan the number of Crusaders players selected, have a crack at Razor for favouring them, and praise the performance of any Hurricanes or Blues player
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
@No-Quarter Are you going to hire a Secretary to post on both for you?
Perhaps I could get my 11 year old to cover the rugby thread. The instructions would be simple: bemoan the number of Crusaders players selected, have a crack at Razor for favouring them, and praise the performance of any Hurricanes or Blues player
I've been forced to watch enough cooking shows, that I feel the technique is to fall back on the, "Here's some I prepared earlier....".
"Fuck you.....
Blundell, Santner, TIMMY, Asafo, Sevu, ref, Japan, Rohit haha, DMac, TIMMY!!!, Mitch and your father - catch the ball FFS, Ryan, Patty, Razor FFS, Virat - yes!, India, Eddie -yeah!
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Ajaz shouldn't be hitting out when a set Phillips is at the other end
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The bad news is we haven't got as many as we wanted. The good news is the pitch is turning a fucking mile even on day 3.
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:
Ajaz shouldn't be hitting out when a set Phillips is at the other end
Blundell and Santner should have showed more application. I don't know why they felt the need for aerial shots
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Thinking more on Santer's first innings performance, he's always been an accurate spinner that doesn't turn it much. On a pitch that turns as much as this one, he suddenly becomes an accurate spinner that turns it quite a bit, which makes him a much more challenging proposition.
