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@KiwiPie said in Wags retires:

@Bovidae said in Wags retires:

The article I posted mentions that Wagner was originally a much quicker bowler but later changed to be the bowler we all loved.

It was performances like this before he played for New Zealand that had everyone so excited - the short pitched bowling came later on.

I remember that, that amazing achievement is what got the calls going for him to be eligible to play for NZ

It looks like you can have up to 8 overseas players in your squad but there is a limit of 4 in your playing XI.

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A 2 - 1 ODI series win in the end. The moment of last night's Super Over loss coinciding with the exact moment that "Sumo" decided to tell us Sophie Devine had never played in a losing one.

Emily Drumm was brilliant as a player. Some of her opinions & decisions as a selector, and published views on Tests, arguably don't meet the same high bar.

Another recent controversy was a Rawalpindi pitch that produced a bore-draw and was only rated as below average, rather than poor. I also vaguely recall an MCG one from an Ashes series, maybe when Alisitair Cook got a big double hundred, don't know of they had the current pitch rating system then.

11 Mar 2022
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium given one demerit point for the surface produced for the lifeless opening Test between Pakistan and Australia

... has officially been rated "below average" by the match referee and given a demerit point.

In all, 1,187 runs were scored for the loss of only 14 wickets.

and

03 Jan 2018. MCG on notice after ICC rates pitch 'poor'
Had the Test finished two days later, the nation’s most famous cricket ground would have been slapped with three demerit points as part of a new ‘name and shame’ system from the ICC that came into effect on Monday.

News MCG on notice after ICC rates pitch 'poor' | cricket.com.au MCG on notice after ICC rates pitch 'poor' | cricket.com.au

MCG pitch in spotlight after governing body hands famous venue a formal warning

Amazing finish. Well done Scorchers. So deserved. Great stuff Ashton Cooper and Nick Hobson

@Donsteppa said in Big Bash League 2022/23:

So seeing Trent Boult and Colin Munro being picked up in the BBL draft overnight wasn't a surprise. CdG being picked up was though, and it's also a surprise to NZC apparently...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/300673239/new-zealand-cricket-surprised-by-colin-de-grandhommes-bbl-draft-selection

Two of my favourite sports to watch are being governed like shit at the moment

Well on the subject of coaches, the BCs would do well to move on from Stead as well

And one of those reminders that, for every howler by an Umpire, there seems to be even more by the players... 🙂

@nzzp said in 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand:

@nzbloke said in 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand:

Fielding with more urgency, need to attack the ball in the field.

I'll settle for improving the catch rate for simple catches. Hard catches are hard - but you can practice and improve the simple ones. And it relaly makes a difference in cricket; creating 10-11 chances vs creating 13-14 chances

Players tend to drop some really easy catches because they take them for granted, they need to focus just as much on a lolly catch as a difficult one... reckon if it's a lolly catch or a difficult one in slips or a diving catch in the outfield it's always so important to let the ball come to you using soft hands, it's when a player pushes their hands forward towards the ball there's a good chance they'll drop it.

Auckland win the Plunket Shield after a win over Wellington inside 3 days.

Covid in the ND camp means their game with CD was declared a draw with no play on day 4.

@donsteppa said in White Ferns in England:

A 203 run loss to finish the tour with, glad I didn't stay up late for that one! In some ways the tour finished not much better than we started out - we're still reliant on a small number of key players to do the majority of the work, and if they don't fire...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/300416458/suzie-bates-sophie-devine-disappoint-in-white-ferns-player-ratings-for-england-tour

So basically exactly how the Black Caps used to be then ?

Particularly the goalkicker that hit the upright from directly in front.

@rotated said in 26 December 2019 at the MCG:

The article mentions a 3 test series - fantastic - would that mean the New Year's Test in Sydney is on the table?

Solid point! Last Sydney NY test I went to was Aus v SA and it was excellent.

Go well Mr Ronchi. Ended up being a great servant of NZ cricket, and it was always obvious he was a team first man which was central to the team ethos. Part of his game that was not talked about much was his glovework - always very tidy and reliable.

If not for the rain he would have contributed to a great win against Aus before bowing out, which is a shame.

The 170 goes down in NZ cricket folklore, that was an incridble innings.

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<p>Probably not in the world we live in nowadays but I picture Samoans having their own accent or a real kiwi one. Not English....</p>

Shockingly good article from Reason. Articulated what I think about the only acceptable sexism these days.

I’m often calling out relatives about their casually sexist comments denigrating men, especially around my kids