• Wags retires

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    @KiwiPie said in Wags retires:

    @Bovidae said in Wags retires:

    The article I posted mentions that Wagner was originally a much quicker bowler but later changed to be the bowler we all loved.

    It was performances like this before he played for New Zealand that had everyone so excited - the short pitched bowling came later on.

    I remember that, that amazing achievement is what got the calls going for him to be eligible to play for NZ

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    @MN5 said in Black Caps v South Africa:

    @Chris said in Black Caps v South Africa:

    @Donsteppa said in Black Caps v South Africa:

    On Conway, his technical issues are one of the awkward joys of cricket. By the time TSFers and Junior parents are talking about things, there's no way that he is blind to it. If only the fixes were always quick (even I'd have been a decent batter )

    They can be quick with the resources Conway has but something is holding him back.
    Maybe it is other issues but there is to much repeats for me to understand why there is no correction at all, not even a forward press or back foot movement to get his feet moving to get into a better balanced position.
    No correction of that front foot placement nothing just same every innings so same results.

    So same dismissals always off balance Lbw,Snicked off or caught in the covers or gully.

    Really frustrating. I watched his whole innings and he looked good getting to 17 before disaster struck.

    Very frustrating it is like there is a mental block and he reverts back to staying cast on the crease.
    I hope he/they get it right NZ needs him firing.

  • Black Caps v Australia

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    @ACT-Crusader said in Black Caps v Australia:

    @Bovidae said in Black Caps v Australia:

    I don't see a change of test captain while Stead is still the coach. We'll be needing a Hesson moment for that to happen.

    Forget about Darryl’s comments, when is someone (Weenink or DPL) going to comment that Stead and Southee have the full support of the Board…

    The problem is, they genuinely do have the support of the board.

    I think the comments from Darryl are being grabbed as a symptom reaction. The reality is we have limited Test quality players, and we need to get the best out of them. We lost that test because we couldn't keep going in the first innings, and we dropped catches, and too many of our bowlers were toothless. Those are structural issues with our cricket - but I see little appetite to seriously address them.

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    Another park effort from professionals.

  • IPL 2024

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    It looks like you can have up to 8 overseas players in your squad but there is a limit of 4 in your playing XI.

    IPL Auction 2024 | IPL Mini Auction Live Updates
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    I'd like to thank @Crazy-Horse for his contribution

  • Big Bash League 23/24

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    @booboo said in Big Bash League 23/24:

    @mariner4life said in Big Bash League 23/24:

    while they may not be "as big as they used to be" they are still bloody good.

    30 games, 19 with more than 20,000, six with more than 40k
    Only 5 had less than 10k, and 4 of those were in Tassie

    A quick squiz at the crowds for say BBL 5 sees them not significantly different except for the 1 game that got 80k. The final was a couple of thousand more, but Sydney v Melbourne at the 'G will pull more than Sydney v Brisbane in Sydney

    Fair call

    Still remain Grumpy, and maintain it's not as good or as popular as it used to be.

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    Even the players are disinterested in the t20 series

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    A 2 - 1 ODI series win in the end. The moment of last night's Super Over loss coinciding with the exact moment that "Sumo" decided to tell us Sophie Devine had never played in a losing one.

    Emily Drumm was brilliant as a player. Some of her opinions & decisions as a selector, and published views on Tests, arguably don't meet the same high bar.

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    Another recent controversy was a Rawalpindi pitch that produced a bore-draw and was only rated as below average, rather than poor. I also vaguely recall an MCG one from an Ashes series, maybe when Alisitair Cook got a big double hundred, don't know of they had the current pitch rating system then.

    11 Mar 2022
    Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium given one demerit point for the surface produced for the lifeless opening Test between Pakistan and Australia

    ... has officially been rated "below average" by the match referee and given a demerit point.

    In all, 1,187 runs were scored for the loss of only 14 wickets.

    and

    03 Jan 2018. MCG on notice after ICC rates pitch 'poor'
    Had the Test finished two days later, the nation’s most famous cricket ground would have been slapped with three demerit points as part of a new ‘name and shame’ system from the ICC that came into effect on Monday.

    News MCG on notice after ICC rates pitch 'poor' | cricket.com.au MCG on notice after ICC rates pitch 'poor' | cricket.com.au

    MCG pitch in spotlight after governing body hands famous venue a formal warning

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    @Chris said in CWC Semi-final 1: India v New Zealand:

    next time you are in Brisbane message me and I will run you through the High performance center and show you around

    HEY - What about the rest of us?

    I'll bring my togs....

  • CWC - NZ v Sri Lanka

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    Similarities to 2019 are creepy. Pakistan needed to beat Bangladesh by about 300 in their final round robin match to push us out of the semis. Instead we made it and played top seed India.

    If we make it, it'll be a remix of the 2015 semis. That time we played South Africa and Australia played India.

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    @Chris-B I watched that Proteas v India match and I think the conditions plus a combination of inspiration from the birthday boy had more to do with things.

    The wicket deteriorated and the ball was hardly coming on to the bat in that second innings.

  • CWC: NZ vs SA

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    @Crazy-Horse said in CWC: NZ vs SA:

    @MN5 said in CWC: NZ vs SA:

    I can’t comment on the Pakistani Rugby team or the French cricket team though.

    Why stop now? Lack of knowledge hasn't gotten in your way before.

    Never a truer word spoken

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    @1kiwi said in CWC - Blacks Caps v Australia:

    @Damo said in CWC - Blacks Caps v Australia:

    Fielding was the difference in the end. Aussie got about 20 runs too many.

    Yep Mitchell's dropped catch, Sodhi's blunder that's what cost us

    Maxwell dropped Ravindra cold.
    One of our outfielders completely failed to stop a boundary hit right to them.
    Marnus stepped onto the rope taking a catch.
    We bowled too many wides - partly due to pressure - and probably pulled up about 20 runs short on our innings.

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    @Bones said in CWC - Black Caps v India:

    @MN5 stop trying to thrust your rooster on me.

    Wow, that’s a strange correction

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    @Chris-B No way am I resting Santner... absolutely absurd.

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    @nzzp yeah figured he wouldn’t leave the field unless there was more to it..bugger

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    Santner got Michelle with the next ball anyway. Right on the stump.

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    @Canes4life said in CWC - Black Caps v England:

    @Donsteppa said in CWC - Black Caps v England:

    Read somewhere a year or so back that Devon and Rachin used spend a lot of time practicing together around Wellington cricket, so that may have been a big plus when they got to bat together too.

    You’re right but it also includes Tom Blundell. Apparently the three of them get up early and go running together before they all hit the nets. Really helping each refine each other’s weaknesses. Obviously paying off.

    I love Conway. Seriously classy player. I just wish we’d got him earlier cos he’s no spring chicken.

    Then again, sometimes throwing young fellas into international cricket can fuck with their confidence etc.