Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020
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There's some strange behaviour manifesting in this nz cricket team and it's got nothing to do with their individual cricket skills.
There's a mindset and assertiveness problem with this team since the world cup.
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This team is so meek and apparently confused. From player selections, to batting orders, to monumental batting collapses, to sub standard fielding, to the fact that we've been soundly done over in our last 8 fricken games, ( get fucked, losing the Hamilton game was every bit as useless as the Sydney game).
This is a hell of a fall in performance- win loss record runs secondary to the manner of the losses- we've retarded our progress astonishingly.
This team is not in good health
It's not obvious where the problem is but the decision making and leadership personnel needs a serious look. There is enough cricket skill to suggest that we haven't suddenly exposed some foundational weaknesses in the system but there's a whole heap of adequately skilled international cricketers playing as badly as you could imagine, given their calibre and recent results.
28 for 3
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@canefan yep, but if you're fair dinkum you gotta look equally at Kane and Gav and others.
Dare it be said but we're missing a Baz swagger, or at least a "spin it wide" mentality. The Aussies will prosper with Steve Smith just batting, I wish we could afford Kane the same luxury. But we can't.
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Here's a great example of flawed cricket thinking, to even a club amateur:
You want Rossco to face as many balls as possible. There's just no way around it. If he faces the most balls, we win, ( pretty much). Ok, let's not expose him to a new ball, given our glorious opening partnership habits, so don't bat him in the top 3.
But all that means, is he's 4 and that's concrete. No cute little " left hand right hand combo", no "let's try slinky up there because he hits the best golf ball in the team", no FUCKEN putting Tom fucking Bruce, still wearing international cricket nappies, in before the most game playing legend we've got and have ever had!
You see it's this departure, and it's frequency from fundamental cricket notions that's got me very bothered at the moment
It's never a good cricket decision to have Bruce above Ross, never. Any team, anywhere.
Scary that these type of calls are obviously winning out in the meetings
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@canefan said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@Siam said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@Gunner I think that's the most dramatic shift I've seen in a game. Fuck, what a 34 over does for a team! Tap it round for 10 overs to win😉
It's all for nothing if these guys can't steer us home
Ugh. Fuck
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@canefan said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@canefan said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@Siam said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@Gunner I think that's the most dramatic shift I've seen in a game. Fuck, what a 34 over does for a team! Tap it round for 10 overs to win😉
It's all for nothing if these guys can't steer us home
Ugh. Fuck
Rossco has to be there at the end now, if he is, we win.
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@Gunner said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@canefan said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@canefan said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@Siam said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@Gunner I think that's the most dramatic shift I've seen in a game. Fuck, what a 34 over does for a team! Tap it round for 10 overs to win😉
It's all for nothing if these guys can't steer us home
Ugh. Fuck
Rossco has to be there at the end now, if he is, we win.
Mitchell's average is nothing. No wonder we fold like flimsy deck chair once the core batsmen are out
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