T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus
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@Donsteppa said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
Glorious!! Call the rest of the tournament off now
What tournament?
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Been a long time between drinks getting one over here. Awesome work and Allen was the key.
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Smithy pulling out all the stats to rub it in 😀
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@booboo said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@NTA said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@booboo said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@NTA said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@booboo said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
Not counting chickens yet
Whatevs bro 🙄
Coz Straya. Been there, done that
Yeah just a lazy 20rpo and 2 wickets... 1 wicket. Left
Only when 100% confirmed
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@NTA said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@booboo said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@NTA said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@booboo said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@NTA said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@booboo said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
Not counting chickens yet
Whatevs bro 🙄
Coz Straya. Been there, done that
Yeah just a lazy 20rpo and 2 wickets... 1 wicket. Left
Only when 100% confirmed
30rpo
Fuck. Did we win?
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@booboo said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@NTA said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@booboo said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@NTA said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@booboo said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@NTA said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
@booboo said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
Not counting chickens yet
Whatevs bro 🙄
Coz Straya. Been there, done that
Yeah just a lazy 20rpo and 2 wickets... 1 wicket. Left
Only when 100% confirmed
30rpo
Fuck. Did we win?
You know it, Smithy.
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Far out!
That's one of the best performances I can recall from the Black Caps and perhaps the best ever (up there with the 1992 CWC) vs Australia. (Not quite 1985 Sir Paddles).
Not quite flawless, but close enough. For once, almost everything we tried worked and it was us getting jammy dismissals (Warner) and pulling off spectacular catches.
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Wow. Just wow, that's a fucking statement performance and some. Absolutely annihilated them in every single facet of the game. Game plan, in game tactics, performance, that's one of the most dominant performances we've ever put together against the Aussies. A 20 run win in a T20 is comprehensive. An 89 run victory in a T20 WC in the Aussies back yard in front of 40k fans is just absurd. God I enjoyed that.
Watching Allen dismantle Aussies best ever fast bowling trio one by one was honestly better than sex. 14, 15, 17, thanks for fucking coming. Baz V2.0, incredible eye, fast hands, and can throw even the world's best way off their game with some incredible shots.
Then we were just relentless after that. Rotating the strike with boundaries littered in between. Absolutely world class innings from Conway with multiple cameos to support him on the way. The 6 from Neesh on the last ball to get us to 200 was just the perfect cherry on top.
Finch really missed a trick not bowling Zampa and Maxwell in tandem early on. It was obvious from early on that Allen and Conway were very much enjoying the pace, taking that away from them should have been the first thing he did. Not bowling Maxwell at all was even stupider. Poor captaincy.
Then we were basically faultless in the field. The catch from Phillips was incredible. Warners dismissal was hilarious, couldn't happen to a more annoying bloke. Then bowling Santner and Sodhi together early was smart captaincy. Make them make the pace on the ball, if they do get going then we can go back to the quicks with plenty of runs still in the bank. Turns out making all the pace isn't that easy, and Santner and Sodhi did the business before our quicks came and finished the job.
Also loved the quote from one of the Aussie comms in the first innings when we were on track for 200 -"well we all knew it's a 200 pitch". Really? Someone must have forgotten to tell the Aussie batsmen that. The comms really tried to keep the hyperbole about the Aussies going as long as they could, e.g. Marsh hits a 6 and they scream "SHOT OF THE TOURNAMENT!", but were deflated by the end of it. Just beautiful stuff.
Just. Fucking. Owned. After all the misery they've given us over the years I'm going to enjoy the fuck out of that for some time, in case you couldn't tell.
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Especially for @NTA and @ACT-Crusader
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@Donsteppa said in T20 World Cup - NZ v Aus:
Especially for @NTA and @ACT-Crusader
Howie is an idiot!
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After putting all my energy into watching Wellington last night, I was delighted to wake up for baby duty and tune in to delayed coverage of us going to work on the Aussies.
How awesome were Allen and Conway at the top? Conway is fast becoming our most important player, when he’s on we can smoke anyone.
What a night of sporting results. Long may it continue.
