Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022
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@nta said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
@act-crusader said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
Lots of firsts in this test, but the two catches this morning have been top drawer.
5 donuts for the Blackcaps. @MN5 right at home with this 90s-esque performance.
Pfffft, FOUR donuts, Wags was not out holding one end up thank you very much.
Off 17 balls. Which makes it worse.
If he was a South African playing for Australia as opposed to a South African playing for New Zealand you’d be lauding his tenacious, disciplined stonewalling.
Anyway, hasn’t the Ashes started ? Shouldn’t you be leaving this thread and buggering off over there ?
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@act-crusader said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
Are you not entertained?
The handful of Bangladeshi fans are. And the seven year old still thinks we have a small chance. Though the group who left at the innings break seemed less entertained...
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@donsteppa said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
@act-crusader said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
Are you not entertained?
Though the group who left at the innings break seemed less entertained...
Fucking weak.
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@rotated said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
Won’t happen. You don’t drop the 4th best bowler in the game ( yep, check the ratings )
You give him a boot up the arse though.
They dropped Wagner while he was the fifth best in the world and his last outing was a WTC win.
At least with Southee you can point to 50 wicketless overs on the trot for his exclusion.
The major issue we have is similar to England, Boult and Southee's exploits generally rise and fall together dependent on the conditions at this point of their career.
Yeah Boult and Southee are damn close to becoming Broad and Anderson.
Wags was dropped but I just can’t see them breaking up this quartet when Henry isn’t the most exciting alternative.
Another shit test though and things might change.
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@donsteppa said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
@act-crusader said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
Are you not entertained?
The handful of Bangladeshi fans are. And the seven year old still thinks we have a small chance. Though the group who left at the innings break seemed less entertained...
The seven year old has nonchalantly viewed that wicket as fully expected.
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@kev said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
Lot of talk about bowlers but batting lineup is the issue - as it was in India. Looking particularly at Taylor, Nicholls, Blundell and Ravindra. Would like to see their combined a averages across the India series and this test match?
Taylor is going, Nicholls will be safe cos of that 75 ( although Rossco leaving helps his cause )…..but massive question marks over the other two.
Who is next in line as keeper ?
Early days but is Ravindra anything other than Santner mark II at this level ?
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@kev said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
Lot of talk about bowlers but batting lineup is the issue - as it was in India. Looking particularly at Taylor, Nicholls, Blundell and Ravindra. Would like to see their combined a averages across the India series and this test match?
Well, the sentimentality around 'giving Rossco a farewell tour' is possibly backfiring a bit now. The runs that Taylor and Nicholls have scored also haven't been chanceless.
Blundell should be the most under the microscope though. Also Luke Ronchi.
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@donsteppa said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
That required rate of 0.2 looks imposing.
You still there or are you at the pub ?
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@mn5 said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
@donsteppa said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
That required rate of 0.2 looks imposing.
You still there or are you at the pub ?
For some unknown reason we're still here. A nice moment for the Bangladeshi's I guess.
Wags left to defend 11 runs...
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@donsteppa said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
Wags left to defend 11 runs...
Taken up where he left off batting. Duck egg.
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@donsteppa said in Black Caps v Bangladesh 2022:
No demons in the pitch all of a sudden...
The Demons of Disciplined Bowling? Or the Demons of Wide Short Pies?
From cricinfo it sounds like the latter, hoping for a catch in the gully through the age-old adage of shit gets wickets.
