Hey - What the fuck?!!!

TASMAN WINS!!!!!

Woo hoo - we're the best!!!!

In your face Auckland and Canterbury!!!

I've got a theory that Tom Latham relaxes a bit when his opening partner gets out before he does - largely based on my own experiences opening the batting.

Hence, I think he possibly quite liked batting with Guppy and batting with someone like Raval, who makes a lot of middling scores might not get the best out of Tom.

I'll be interested to hear the solutions these people come up with for fixing all of the broken people who are potential murderers, rapists, abusers.

"Men need to take responsibility" is frankly not going to cut it.

@jk said in Aussie Cricket:

Saw India paying $2.50 and went to load up until I saw no Rohit and no Ashwin.

I would have loaded up more when I saw no Rohit (Soshit Harmer).

He averages less than 25 away from home.

Ashwin is a loss even though Jadeja is a decent alternative.

@dogmeat Yeah - my father reckoned there was a local guy who shoulda been interviewed just because he had a Vauxhall. Other than that he was a respectable member of the community!

@dogmeat Were you living in Oamaru at the time?

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/actions-compromised-beard-inquiry

The book I read (possibly the one mentioned) made it pretty clear in my mind that Bray did it.

@machpants Don't do it Sam!

Tell the fucking comic book salesman to go fuck himself!

@no-quarter said in Grace Millane:

Cynical question: do these vigils happen if we remove social media? Would so many be attending if they couldn't narcissistically post about it online?

Any of you old buggers remember anything like this happening before? The reaction seems way OTT given we never get vigils for, say, the innocent children that are regularly killed in domestic violence incidents.

(Edited but probably too late for anyone to take this post seriously now)

I doubt that there were vigils - though there might have been church services - but, I can still very clearly recall the Jennifer Beard murder, which the whole country followed avidly for months.

Somewhat similar background to Grace Millane's murder. Read a book about it years later and it seemed like the police had pretty much tracked the guy down who did it - though there were a couple of potential alternatives to confuse matters.

@kiwipie said in NZ All Time Test XI:

@synicbast said in NZ All Time Test XI:

Kane just broke the 900 point barrier on the ICC rankings...absofuckinglutely sensational.

Places him 27th on the list of batsmen ordered by their highest ever ranking. Top 5 is Bradman, Smith, Hutton, Ponting, Hobbs. Immediately after KW are Lara, Pietersen, Amla, Chanderpaul, Clarke, Tendulkar, Hammond, Flower, S Waugh, Dravid which is a pretty fine 9 to be above you have to admit. Now all we need is a double hundred from him this weekend and he can go above Barrington, Headley, Gavaskar, Compton, Root ....

http://www.relianceiccrankings.com/alltime/test/

Most interesting thing about that list is that four NZers make it and joining Little Kane, Rossco, and Turner is not one M.D. Crowe, nor Andrew Jones, nor John F. Reid, nor Mark Richardson....but one Geoffrey Howarth!

Based, I guess on this purple patch...

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/37254.html?class=1;spanmax1=28+Feb+1981;spanmin1=01+Mar+1978;spanval1=span;template=results;type=batting;view=innings

@mn5 http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/magazine/alltime_composite.html

Here's the Cricinfo World teams - those Aussies look beatable!

Pakistan look pretty fearsome - probably more fearsome than the Windies!