NZ v Pakistan
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Big schedule of domestic Internationals this Summer. The prospect of England coming doesn't fill me with confidence, and prior to that playing a battle hardened Pakistan side eager to atone for their series whitewash to the same England side. No Bangles to try and pad the stats either
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The Pakistan tour will be shown on Sky.
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Poor old Black Caps.
I bet Xmas in Pakistan absolutely sux arse.
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@canefan said in NZ Cricket 2022:
Big schedule of domestic Internationals this Summer. The prospect of England coming doesn't fill me with confidence, and prior to that playing a battle hardened Pakistan side eager to atone for their series whitewash to the same England side. No Bangles to try and pad the stats either
We’re at home and the wheels HAVE to fall off the English team at some stage.
Still this is coming from a guy who confidently predicted a 3-0 whitewash over there and did a classic Sean Fitzpatrick and picked fuck all Englishmen in a combined XI so what do I know ?
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This will be a clash of the almost cellar dwellers:
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@MN5 said in NZ Cricket 2022:
Poor old Black Caps.
I bet Xmas in Pakistan absolutely sux arse.
Tough to tell from this pic.
What time do things kick off ? Would love some cricket on in the background while I try and be productive and shift some Xmas lard.
I had no idea both teams were coming off FOUR consecutive losses each.
Can Pakistan overcome off-field noise against Southee-led New Zealand?
Both sides are coming off four consecutive losses in the format
Our batting order looks very strong ( Bracewell at eight ? This implies he’s there as a frontline bowler ) Bowling looks incredibly weak without Boult and Jamieson but then again spin will be handy. Nice to have a guy who took ten in an innings there to bolster things.
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Things about to kick off, No Young and Conway opening is interesting.
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Nichols at four and Mitchell at five. God help us.
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@Crazy-Horse said in NZ v Pakistan:
Nichols at four and Mitchell at five. God help us.
He’s not there. Need to ask Allah.
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@Crazy-Horse said in NZ v Pakistan:
Nichols at four and Mitchell at five. God help us.
I think they’re backing Nicholls to come good. Young just hasn’t shown enough but I thought he’d be in opening with Conway at four personally. Nicholls career trajectory is sliding towards the Astle/McMillan/Styris bracket, you know, good without being great. ( Latham too to be honest )
Will be interesting to see if Johns son can continue the incredible work he did in England. I suspect that was a freak occurrence and normal transmission will resume.
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@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Crazy-Horse said in NZ v Pakistan:
Nichols at four and Mitchell at five. God help us.
I think they’re backing Nicholls to come good. Young just hasn’t shown enough but I thought he’d be in opening with Conway at four personally. Nicholls career trajectory is sliding towards the Astle/McMillan/Styris bracket, you know, good without being great. ( Latham too to be honest )
Will be interesting to see if Johns son can continue the incredible work he did in England. I suspect that was a freak occurrence and normal transmission will resume.
Yeah I suspect John's son has over achieved so far, but happy to be proven wrong. I rate Astle etc ahead of Nicholls. IIRC the purple patch Nicolls went through coincided with him being dropped a dozen times per innings.
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@Crazy-Horse said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Crazy-Horse said in NZ v Pakistan:
Nichols at four and Mitchell at five. God help us.
I think they’re backing Nicholls to come good. Young just hasn’t shown enough but I thought he’d be in opening with Conway at four personally. Nicholls career trajectory is sliding towards the Astle/McMillan/Styris bracket, you know, good without being great. ( Latham too to be honest )
Will be interesting to see if Johns son can continue the incredible work he did in England. I suspect that was a freak occurrence and normal transmission will resume.
Yeah I suspect John's son has over achieved so far, but happy to be proven wrong. I rate Astle etc ahead of Nicholls. IIRC the purple patch Nicolls went through coincided with him being dropped a dozen times per innings.
Yeah Nichols ability to bust out a mammoth innings when he’s on the verge of being dropped and nudging the test average over 40 again can’t be ignored !
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Didn’t realise there was no crowd. Big adjustment needed from watching the Oz game at the G
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@Crucial said in NZ v Pakistan:
Didn’t realise there was no crowd. Big adjustment needed from watching the Oz game at the G
Good batting, for one
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@nzzp said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Crucial said in NZ v Pakistan:
Didn’t realise there was no crowd. Big adjustment needed from watching the Oz game at the G
Good batting, for one
Jinx is on me!
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How good are our spin twins ?!?!?!?! Amazing stuff !
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Talk about a token effort opening with the captain and the lovable Wags. Just three overs between them !
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Mitchell at five is great. Nicholls at four not so much…
Needed Mitch to hang on to that chance from Azam though.
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In future years, doing a statsguru query on Wagner. Today will count as him being a new ball bowler, rather than his usual 1st or 2nd change .
That was an opening spell with the new ball of 1 over.
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Back to the Cricket. We're obviously not praying to the right deity as Pakis hit 2hundy for 4.
Babar Azam reaches 3 figures.
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@booboo said in NZ v Pakistan:
Back to the Cricket. We're obviously not praying to the right deity as Pakis hit 2hundy for 4.
Babar Azam reaches 3 figures.
My fault. Turned off for family commitments.
What a drop though, from 12 to 161 and counting...150 runs is painful
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Fuck you bloody
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I dont really expect NZ to pass 300 once this series, so I'd say game over already.
Although I'd say a 0-2 ws odds on anyway, so no big hot take.
May be being too pessimistic, but they've earned by pessimism this last 12 months.
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@Rapido said in NZ v Pakistan:
I dont really expect NZ to pass 300 once this series, so I'd say game over already.
Although I'd say a 0-2 ws odds on anyway, so no big hot take.
May be being too pessimistic, but they've earned by pessimism this last 12 months.
Taylor retiring and Boult and Jamieson not available has left the team looking vulnerable…….but there is enough class to compete.
The form drop is alarming though.
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Righto, so far Sodhi and Patel are a waste of space, Mitchell gave Pakistan a few pies which was kind of him, Bracewell has massively overachieved and Southee and Wags might be on the verge of a breakthrough, which would be nice.
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Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
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@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
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@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
Have you not seen a long hop before .
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@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
Have you not seen a long hop before .
Yeah I have, I was just wondering who Shodi is though.
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@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
Have you not seen a long hop before .
Yeah I have, I was just wondering who Shodi is though.
The leg spinner who bowls short long hops,full tosses and short pitched googlies,
He does not deserve his name spelt correctly until he can bowl leg spin.
In fact if NZ can not produce a decent spinner don’t pick crap options. -
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
Have you not seen a long hop before .
Yeah I have, I was just wondering who Shodi is though.
The leg spinner who bowls short long hops,full tosses and short pitched googlies,
He does not deserve his name spelt correctly until he can bowl leg spin.
In fact if NZ can not produce a decent spinner don’t pick crap options.He’s better than Tamm Hrat and Mrak Ciarg though. Those guys were shit.
I do agree though, the way NZ shoehorns a spinner for the sake of having a spinner pisses me off to no end when so many of them are not up to it.
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@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
Have you not seen a long hop before .
Yeah I have, I was just wondering who Shodi is though.
The leg spinner who bowls short long hops,full tosses and short pitched googlies,
He does not deserve his name spelt correctly until he can bowl leg spin.
In fact if NZ can not produce a decent spinner don’t pick crap options.He’s better than Tamm Hrat and Mrak Ciarg though. Those guys were shit.
NZ just has an embarrassing bowling lineup ,For this series.
Club level. -
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
Have you not seen a long hop before .
Yeah I have, I was just wondering who Shodi is though.
The leg spinner who bowls short long hops,full tosses and short pitched googlies,
He does not deserve his name spelt correctly until he can bowl leg spin.
In fact if NZ can not produce a decent spinner don’t pick crap options.He’s better than Tamm Hrat and Mrak Ciarg though. Those guys were shit.
NZ just has an embarrassing bowling lineup ,For this series.
Club level.Yep, not sure of you read my edit but our depth is starting to get exposed when our top guys aren’t available.
Vettori must look at some of the options and shake his head in disgust.
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@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
Have you not seen a long hop before .
Yeah I have, I was just wondering who Shodi is though.
The leg spinner who bowls short long hops,full tosses and short pitched googlies,
He does not deserve his name spelt correctly until he can bowl leg spin.
In fact if NZ can not produce a decent spinner don’t pick crap options.He’s better than Tamm Hrat and Mrak Ciarg though. Those guys were shit.
NZ just has an embarrassing bowling lineup ,For this series.
Club level.Yep, not sure of you read my edit but our depth is starting to get exposed when our top guys aren’t available.
Vettori must look at some of the options and shake his head in disgust.
Must be a decent young option in NZ they could pick and stick with him,Someone who can naturally spin the ball, control will come with time , I see young kids over here who can turn it sideways all the time,Control is lacking but they get picked as you can’t really teach a player to rip the ball it’s natural.
But you can help with the control factor with,volume bowling and a few tricks. -
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
Have you not seen a long hop before .
Yeah I have, I was just wondering who Shodi is though.
The leg spinner who bowls short long hops,full tosses and short pitched googlies,
He does not deserve his name spelt correctly until he can bowl leg spin.
In fact if NZ can not produce a decent spinner don’t pick crap options.He’s better than Tamm Hrat and Mrak Ciarg though. Those guys were shit.
NZ just has an embarrassing bowling lineup ,For this series.
Club level.Yep, not sure of you read my edit but our depth is starting to get exposed when our top guys aren’t available.
Vettori must look at some of the options and shake his head in disgust.
Must be a decent young option in NZ they could pick and stick with him,Someone who can naturally spin the ball, control will come with time , I see young kids over here who can turn it sideways all the time,Control is lacking but they get picked as you can’t really teach a player to rip the ball it’s natural.
But you can help with the control factor with,volume bowling and a few tricks.Let’s be honest, we were so lucky with Vettori for so long and I really wish he started his career ten years later to coincide with the class players who came after him.
But even then Vettori was a kiwi great…..not a genuine world class great.
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@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
Have you not seen a long hop before .
Yeah I have, I was just wondering who Shodi is though.
The leg spinner who bowls short long hops,full tosses and short pitched googlies,
He does not deserve his name spelt correctly until he can bowl leg spin.
In fact if NZ can not produce a decent spinner don’t pick crap options.He’s better than Tamm Hrat and Mrak Ciarg though. Those guys were shit.
NZ just has an embarrassing bowling lineup ,For this series.
Club level.Yep, not sure of you read my edit but our depth is starting to get exposed when our top guys aren’t available.
Vettori must look at some of the options and shake his head in disgust.
Must be a decent young option in NZ they could pick and stick with him,Someone who can naturally spin the ball, control will come with time , I see young kids over here who can turn it sideways all the time,Control is lacking but they get picked as you can’t really teach a player to rip the ball it’s natural.
But you can help with the control factor with,volume bowling and a few tricks.Let’s be honest, we were so lucky with Vettori for so long and I really wish he started his career ten years later to coincide with the class players who came after him.
But even then Vettori was a kiwi great…..not a genuine world class great.
Didn’t really spin the ball Vettori , clever bowler used changes of pace and angles really well.
He understood how to exploit any flaw in a batting technique.
With 4 of the test playing nations in the sub continent now you need decent spinners,as there will be a lot of test’s played there in the future. -
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in NZ v Pakistan:
@Chris said in NZ v Pakistan:
Long hop by Shodi gets a wkt,shit gets wkts
This post just oozes drunkenness but it is that time of year so you’re excused.
Have you not seen a long hop before .
Yeah I have, I was just wondering who Shodi is though.
The leg spinner who bowls short long hops,full tosses and short pitched googlies,
He does not deserve his name spelt correctly until he can bowl leg spin.
In fact if NZ can not produce a decent spinner don’t pick crap options.He’s better than Tamm Hrat and Mrak Ciarg though. Those guys were shit.
NZ just has an embarrassing bowling lineup ,For this series.
Club level.Yep, not sure of you read my edit but our depth is starting to get exposed when our top guys aren’t available.
Vettori must look at some of the options and shake his head in disgust.
Must be a decent young option in NZ they could pick and stick with him,Someone who can naturally spin the ball, control will come with time , I see young kids over here who can turn it sideways all the time,Control is lacking but they get picked as you can’t really teach a player to rip the ball it’s natural.
But you can help with the control factor with,volume bowling and a few tricks.Let’s be honest, we were so lucky with Vettori for so long and I really wish he started his career ten years later to coincide with the class players who came after him.
But even then Vettori was a kiwi great…..not a genuine world class great.
Didn’t really spin the ball Vettori , clever bowler used changes of pace and angles really well.
He understood how to exploit any flaw in a batting technique.
With 4 of the test playing nations in the sub continent now you need decent spinners,as there will be a lot of test’s played there in the future.Yep but we’re playing in a country that has produced Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar. All varying degrees of absolute class and better than anything the other three have produced. I think Timmy and Wags need to step up too.
