Black Caps vs England Series
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Harry Brook nails the 'ridiculous' with innings that few could replicate
Centurion kept diving deeper into risk and coming out the other side a hero
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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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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@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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@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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@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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@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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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.
