New Zealand v West Indies
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@Stag said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@MN5 the victory is was very good, the inability to quickly strike the final blow was a bit worrying and is something to work on. We are ranked 2nd & they are 8th, lapses that allow partnerships like that will be punished far more by better teams.
And when we were ranked lower and playing higher ranked sides, we used to do the same thing. Vettori made a lot more runs than more favoured sides would’ve liked!
I think you’re being a little harsh. The great thing about cricket is all the variables that even the best laid out plans and execution by the bowlers, they can sometimes take 2 overs or 20 overs to get a breakthrough depending on conditions, umpiring, batsmen, fielding...
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@ACT-Crusader said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@Stag said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@MN5 the victory is was very good, the inability to quickly strike the final blow was a bit worrying and is something to work on. We are ranked 2nd & they are 8th, lapses that allow partnerships like that will be punished far more by better teams.
And when we were ranked lower and playing higher ranked sides, we used to do the same thing. Vettori made a lot more runs than more favoured sides would’ve liked!
I think you’re being a little harsh. The great thing about cricket is all the variables that even the best laid out plans and execution by the bowlers, they can sometimes take 2 overs or 20 overs to get a breakthrough depending on conditions, umpiring, batsmen, fielding...
Vettori and/or McCullum got us some respectability on loads of occasions.
But the team still got a hiding just as the Windies have.
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@MN5 said in New Zealand v West Indies:
Astles 222 in a losing effort will never be beat. I lay on the couch still drunk from the night before and watched the entire innings. Just brilliant stuff.
Nathan Astle Nathan Astle
You neeeaaaarly won the match
You may have scored two hundred
But you droooooped
The vital catchThe barmy army can be quality
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@mariner4life said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@MN5 said in New Zealand v West Indies:
Astles 222 in a losing effort will never be beat. I lay on the couch still drunk from the night before and watched the entire innings. Just brilliant stuff.
Nathan Astle Nathan Astle
You neeeaaaarly won the match
You may have scored two hundred
But you droooooped
The vital catchThe barmy army can be quality
It's certainly a bit more clever and witty than "Hadlees a piston wristed gibbon"
@NTA shit it must be embarrassing to be Australian sometimes.
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@MN5 do you think Kiwi crowds would come up with anything better than Aussies?
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@Crazy-Horse probably wouldn't go to the trouble of printing stickers. ( they did, I was there)
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@Crazy-Horse said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@MN5 do you think Kiwi crowds would come up with anything better than Aussies?
Not sure but I thought I’d make the dig anyway seeing as @Virgil hasn’t logged on in awhile
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@Siam said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@mariner4life said in New Zealand v West Indies:
100 in a losing effort. Cricket's pinnacle
There's no greater view into a man's soul as to how he reacts to a team sport truism that states: "I'd rather get a duck in a winning team than a hundred in a losing one"
Having experienced many of the former and few (ahem ... none) of the latter I can confirm I prefer the duck.
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@MN5 said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@mariner4life said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@MN5 said in New Zealand v West Indies:
Astles 222 in a losing effort will never be beat. I lay on the couch still drunk from the night before and watched the entire innings. Just brilliant stuff.
Nathan Astle Nathan Astle
You neeeaaaarly won the match
You may have scored two hundred
But you droooooped
The vital catchThe barmy army can be quality
It's certainly a bit more clever and witty than "Hadlees a piston wristed gibbon"
@NTA shit it must be embarrassing to be Australian sometimes.
It's alright, actually. Particularly when it comes to cricket.
Being a kiwi mistaken for an Aussie though? Ooft...
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Anybody else concerned with what seemed to be music between each over at Seddon Park?
Bracing myself to be grumpy at The Basin this week. Hopefully I don't end up yelling and swearing at the clouds like last time I was there (for a Super Smash game). Nothing can be that bad, though ..... music after each boundary, wicket, over ...
It's the thin edge though isn't it.
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@Rapido said in New Zealand v West Indies:
Anybody else concerned with what seemed to be music between each over at Seddon Park?
I'll join you on that hill
Seriously, though, I get it for T20 and maaaaybe sometimes in ODI. But people go to tests because they love Cricket. Don't blast music, provide a differentiating experience.
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@nzzp said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@Rapido said in New Zealand v West Indies:
Anybody else concerned with what seemed to be music between each over at Seddon Park?
I'll join you on that hill
Seriously, though, I get it for T20 and maaaaybe sometimes in ODI. But people go to tests because they love Cricket. Don't blast music, provide a differentiating experience.
I don't even get it for T20. I went to NZ v India a couple of years back and it was sold out. Atmosphere was absolutely electric. Then a boundary would get hit, music would blare out, and the atmosphere would be killed dead for a while. It objectively ruins the experience of going to a live sporting event in a full stadium.
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@canefan said in New Zealand v West Indies:
We love Wags 💘
Gosh he’s good. He might take Boults spot in my all time XI if he’s not careful.
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@MN5 said in New Zealand v West Indies:
@canefan said in New Zealand v West Indies:
We love Wags 💘
Gosh he’s good. He might take Boults spot in my all time XI if he’s not careful.
get off the cans
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@mariner4life said in New Zealand v West Indies:
get off the cans
Worth considering if he keeps going. Go to have someone that can take wickets on a dead pitch with an older ball and our spinners are shit. Not sure that Trent would miss out though...
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@Snowy said in New Zealand v West Indies:
our spinners are shit
there's the rub. He's more likely to take Dan's spot than Boult's
even then...
Wags is an honest trier who gets wickets with persistence. Love him, he's a fucking hero. But one of our best ever?
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@mariner4life the stats say yes
