Black Caps vs England Series
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But, it's Mitch who gets out and Blundell has to bat anyway.
England well on top, now!
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps vs England Series:
Kane gone - O'Rourke being asked to bat 20 minutes as nightwatchman.
Seems like an odd decision. He'll do well to survive that long and then what?
A nightwatchman for Blundell is ironic considering he’s basically been a nightwatchman for the batsmen below him for as long as I remember
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I’ve probably whinged about it before but I hate the idea of a night watchman. Particularly given it’s likely they’ll have bowled heaps that day. A batsman’s job is to fucken bat even if it is for a few minutes at the end of the day.
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Love the field placement.
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@Virgil said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@nzzp said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@NTA BazBall baby
@NTA is confused because hes used to seeing W . WW . . . W after the 1st Test vs India
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
I’ve probably whinged about it before but I hate the idea of a night watchman. Particularly given it’s likely they’ll have bowled heaps that day. A batsman’s job is to fucken bat even if it is for a few minutes at the end of the day.
I don't mind it for maybe half a dozen balls, because there's significant risk to an important asset - with very little to gain.
But, sending O'Rourke out with 20 minutes to play?
There's much I don't understand about our strategies!
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Pushing Phillips down to 8 is a sensible decision by a totally not-a-rabble outfit.
Although it has prised the deadweight out of the number 6 position with a well deserved demotion below O'Rourke.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
I’ve probably whinged about it before but I hate the idea of a night watchman. Particularly given it’s likely they’ll have bowled heaps that day. A batsman’s job is to fucken bat even if it is for a few minutes at the end of the day.
I don't mind it for maybe half a dozen balls, because there's significant risk to an important asset - with very little to gain.
But, sending O'Rourke out with 20 minutes to play?
There's much I don't understand about our strategies!
Are we still talking Blundell ?
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Did the Black Caps that won in India return home via the Bermuda triangle?
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The Black Caps are about as consistently professional as Dad's Army.
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His team was in deep shit but he didn’t give a fuck and just played his natural game.
This guy is seriously good for test cricket. Long may the format thrive with him leading the charge.
In saying all that getting him cheaply in the second innings would go down well. Bloody hell, what a talent.
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Another cracker day in the capital. Maybe with the way the game is placed this isn’t a good thing.
Lots of time for England to roll us and be batting well before lunch.
Hopefully the reverse jinx is paying attention.
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Blundell almost starting to look solid and then bowled by Carse for 16.
Then O’Rourke goes as expected looking pretty plumb for a pretty handy duck given he was a night watchman.
96/7.
Phillips may as well play the natural game and have a swing.
At least we’ve avoided the follow on !!!!!!!!!
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tail docked and not wagged unfortunately
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……and we’re all out for a pathetic 125.
Philips stranded yet again. Fuck me, when will they elevate him to 6 ?
Well done Atkinson on an awesome hat trick. Very rare and incredible achievement
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
……and we’re all out for a pathetic 125.
Philips stranded yet again. Fuck me, when will they elevate him to 6 ?
Maybe when they stop opening the bowling with Timmy in the hope he's going to put the fear of god into someone.
Stead must just be getting his tactics from ChatGPT!
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What a rabble.
A lazy player-led team with a fraud of a figurehead coach who lets them get away with it.
Coach's contract was renewed for 2 years because no coach worth their salt would touch that team with a barge pole in the state they were heading and the power in the hands of the cancerous core.
6 months to go before cricket can become fun again.
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@booboo said in Black Caps vs England Series:
Outside specialist coaching. And some different players. Solved.
And the small factor of India shitting their own bed. I suppose.
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@Rapido That lbw review for Tim was a bit damning as to who is wearing the pants. Latham looked like he was bullied into reviewing - though it's possible that he's just another poor reviewer with a trigger finger.
If you compare to the Australians who seem to methodically go through all the reasons not to review.
The umpire had immediately turned away from the appeal as though it was clearly not out. Which of course it was.
A pretty wild punt
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Conway, Blundell and Southee must have some sort of bet on to see who can remain the biggest passenger in the side.
You’d have hoped at least one of them would have done something.
To be fair Crawley is worse than all of them at the moment
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
Conway, Blundell and Southee must have some sort of bet on to see who can remain the biggest passenger in the side.
You’d have hoped at least one of them would have done something.
To be fair Crawley is worse than all of them at the moment
You can add Latham to that list, if he wasn't captain his record over the past 18 months would be in the spotlight as well.
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England lead by 237 and we’re not even a day and half into things. Absolutely ridiculous. We’ll be chasing 600 with three days to go at this rate
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
England lead by 237 and we’re not even a day and half into things. Absolutely ridiculous. We’ll be chasing 600 with three days to go at this rate
our catching still isnt' what it could be. Between 1st and keeper - I get it, but man that's annoying. Standing that wide they should both go for it
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
England lead by 237 and we’re not even a day and half into things. Absolutely ridiculous. We’ll be chasing 600 with three days to go at this rate
Main question is probably whether we'll lose by more or less than 300 runs!
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Right now, Tim needs 4/14 to get his average back below 30.
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Windies Basin 94/95 under threat here. Although it can't be by an innings.
Looking it up. So our biggest defeat by runs was actually only 3 years ago. By 372 runs. By India in the Ajaz 10-fer match at Wankhede 2021.
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I'm glad Tim Southee is calling quits on his international career. We need a better strike bowler. When is Jamieson and even Sears due back?
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@nzzp said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
England lead by 237 and we’re not even a day and half into things. Absolutely ridiculous. We’ll be chasing 600 with three days to go at this rate
our catching still isnt' what it could be. Between 1st and keeper - I get it, but man that's annoying. Standing that wide they should both go for it
I haven't seen that yet but generally speaking if it goes between keeper and 1st then it's the keepers fault, as the agreement would be that the keeper will cover the gap if 1st slip goes a bit wider. We really need a new keeper...
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I can't overstate how costly those dropped catches in the first game were, and it still really grates me that Latham was so dismissive of them. Instead of giving England a good smacking in the first test to destroy their confidence, which we actually played well enough to do, we instead gave them a good practice session to get them into form with confidence sky high going into the 2nd test.
That coupled with the idiotic continued selection of Southee and Blundell, and to a lesser degree Conway, and we're not really giving ourselves a chance. We desperately need a coach that will challenge the captain and, you know, actually be a coach.
Extremely disappointing when talent-wise we still have the makings on a formidable team.
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We need an absolutely massive effort from one ( or preferably more ) of the top order to even lose this one respectably. No faith at all in either opener or Blundell ( hopefully this reverse jinx works ) so as usual the weight of the world is on KWs shoulders. RR or Mitch chipping in would be rather handy too.
England have lots of time to bat, leading by 425, highest successful chase ever was 418
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With more than three days still to play - if you were England - why wouldn't you set us 700?
Already we'll have to have the highest ever successful run chase to win, so they've probably got enough. But to be completely safe i.e. not leave us enough time to make the runs they really will have to set us something approaching that.
I kind of hope they do - because it will set a blowtorch to Stead's arse!
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps vs England Series:
I kind of hope they do - because it will set a blowtorch to Stead's arse!
It should, but Stead seems teflon at NZC. As were some of the "high performance" people around the White Ferns over the last 5-6 years too. Very much a permeating culture.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
England lead by 237 and we’re not even a day and half into things. Absolutely ridiculous. We’ll be chasing 600 with three days to go at this rate
I'm off by 67 runs.
Stokes is hopeless, couldn't score fast enough.
I reckon England will come out and take the piss for about an hour tomorrow and then send us in.
Carse and Atkinson will be out firing. Could be a short day tomorrow.
I reckon three down for not much by lunch tomorrow.
I feel Indian
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Tim Southee's Farewell Series is very much turning into a "hurry up and go away" series. Not only does father time remain undefeated, but he's also clung on so long it's not going to end like it did for Ross Taylor.
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps vs England Series:
Tim Southee's Farewell Series is very much turning into a "hurry up and go away" series. Not only does father time remain undefeated, but he's also clung on so long it's not going to end like it did for Ross Taylor.
Taylor contributed enough at the end for him to still be a NZ great, still walks into an all time NZ XI. Probably hung around a tad too long though.
Southee is just stinking up the joint. Making Trent Boult and Neil Wagner look like they got out at exactly the right time.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps vs England Series:
Tim Southee's Farewell Series is very much turning into a "hurry up and go away" series. Not only does father time remain undefeated, but he's also clung on so long it's not going to end like it did for Ross Taylor.
Taylor contributed enough at the end for him to still be a NZ great, still walks into an all time NZ XI. Probably hung around a tad too long though.
Southee is just stinking up the joint. Making Trent Boult and Neil Wagner look like they got out at exactly the right time.
Stayed at least one year too long
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I'll say one thing about England.......
They turn it up when I least expect it. Was pretty confident when we toured there in 2022, I thought man for man we were the better side. Lost 3-0.
Touring here after our magnificent victory in India with a couple of relative unknowns I thought the BCs would be buoyed enough to do the business but we're staring down the barrel at the end of day two of the second test.
Bazball is pretty awesome when it comes off.
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@MN5 I'm pretty much with NQ for this series.
We've really rolled over with awful catching, poor selections and then a terrible batting performance in the first innings of this test.
England come on a Christmas tour and we've really wrapped up a nice big present for them with a big red bow.
It has been pretty poor by a significant number of the players - and support staff.
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