Cricket: NZ vs Aus

[KiwiMurph]

Crowd is 80k here.

Who said Black Caps can't draw a crowd

[Machpants]

@KiwiMurph Mostly kiwis too by the cheers at the last wicket

[KiwiMurph]

@Machpants there are plenty!

[Chris B.]

Wade might battle his way to a hundred, but it's hard to believe he's one of the top 6 batsmen in Australia.

Surely Khawaja is better than him? Even a Marsh or two?

[Toddy]

@Chris-B Nice jinx.

[Chris B.]

And Seedy G gets him - but, probably not as cheaply as we should have and needed.

[Chris B.]

@Toddy Some sort of double-reverse effort - but, he's pretty ordinary.

Now that Jeet is sidelined he must be the worst specialist bat on either side.

[Chris B.]

Oz homing in on 220/4, which is pretty much par - but, I think, given their attack and that we inserted them, we needed to have them significantly behind par.

A couple of quick wickets can change things - especially if one of those was Smith.

[Rembrandt]

Just left ground to beat the rush. Great crowd and good watch apart from the last hour or so which dragged. Fun police came out in force the last 30 mins booting folk and taking names left and right, way over the top for what minor problems there were. Funnily enough they booted a whole group of friends who were sitting right in front of us but somehow missed the only one of their group who was actually drunk and maybe could have done with a word.

[voodoo]

@Rembrandt Australian nanny state is really gwtting out of control

[ACT Crusader]

@voodoo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:

@Rembrandt Australian nanny state is really gwtting out of control

Especially in the Peoples Republic of Victoria...

[Donsteppa]

The instant that pundits start dribbling “the best ever Black Caps side to leave New Zealand to tour Country X” onto their keyboards - we should call off that tour immediately.

[No Quarter]

Aus well on top. Still really struggling with the decision to bowl first. Shows a real lack of confidence - playing Aus in Aus you go hard or go home.

[junior]

Well this has turned out to be quite the damp squib

[mariner4life]

Outplayed again.

[gt12]

Kane should never be allowed to call even if we do win the toss!

[Donsteppa]

Stead and Williamson should be giving themselves uppercuts for persisting with Santner

[Mokey]

Too many runs, not enough wickets for the end of day one. Smith looking very comfy. If we don't get him early tomorrow, we are kinda farked. BC's need to be sharper in the field, we are not at all great at chasing down Aussie totals. Especially when their bowling attack has a lot more teeth than ours.

[No Quarter]

Don't want to be a broken record but choosing to bat last against Aus in Aus is such a poor decision. I wouldn't want us chasing anything against their attack, we should be setting the target and using scoreboard pressure to take wickets, which is exactly what they get to do now.

We just needed to bat and get 300 odd and we are right in the game.

Stupid cricket is so annoying.

[Chris B.]

@No-Quarter Yeah - probably not a good decision, but it might just have been if Kane had made that runout.

Unfortunately, we need to play out of our skins and take everything to beat Australia.

The unfortunate thing is that while our batting line-up might almost edge theirs, their bowling is so much better than ours - to win we need a flattish track and to take everything.

The upside is that I haven't seen anything in this track that will make it as difficult as Perth, so we need to bat fucking well when we get our first dig and not give Lyon a chance to spin us out on the last day.

To ram the point home - my Australasian team - Latham, Warner, Labuschagne, Williamson (c), Smith, Taylor, Watling, Cummins, Starc, Hazelwood, Lyon.