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***Official*** Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series

Fiery

Fiery

Banned
Bahnz said:
Some good hitting by Jimmy at the death. Probably still 40 short though. Poor effort by McCullum. Sure, he stayed in, but his 30 cost 50 something deliveries against the English part-timers, and he didn't even manage cash in at the death.
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Have to disagree. I thought it was a highly intelligent knock. By the time he came in it looked like 150 might not be possible. He and Oram have given us a good chance of winning
 
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pup11

pup11

International Coach
i still think for england to win fred will have to bat well and others will have support him .Why the hell have kiwis not played patel and what are likes of sinclair and vincent doing at home.
 
Slow Love™

Slow Love™

International Captain
Bahnz said:
Poor effort by McCullum. Sure, he stayed in, but his 30 cost 50 something deliveries against the English part-timers, and he didn't even manage cash in at the death.
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Wow, some of you NZ supporters are as harsh on you're own men as some Indian fans. Thought it was a pretty good innings considering. They were in deep, deep trouble when he came in, and it was always going to be up to he and Oram to make the bulk of the runs if they were going to set anywhere near a competitive total. In the end a 200+ figure was a pretty damn good result. Certainly not a poor effort.
 
NZTailender

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Jono said:
NZ batting like idiots, and Eng bowling really well at the death.

But still, NZ batting like idiots.
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In the first half of the match, maybe. But in the last two overs they needed to have a swing, and thats what they did. Didn't work entirely but we still made it past 200 :blink:


Great innings by Oram. Easily his best ever in a ODI and well backed up by McCullum. I'm hoping Bond can cut a swathe through the top order and the rest of the bowlers will do the job.


Doesn't seem likely, though. But it has been a bowlers tournament so far. :)
 
Fiery

Fiery

Banned
Slow Love™;1051874 said:
Wow, some of you NZ supporters are as harsh on you're own men as some Indian fans.
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I know what you mean. You should see what happens when the All Blacks lose. Everyone goes running out of their houses flailing their arms in the air and pushing the panic button which is what has happened now that the Black Caps have lost 4 in a row.

Aargh!.. another crap umpiring decision one replay could have avoided.
 
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Smudge

Smudge

Hall of Fame Member
Bahnz said:
Some good hitting by Jimmy at the death. Probably still 40 short though. Poor effort by McCullum. Sure, he stayed in, but his 30 cost 50 something deliveries against the English part-timers, and he didn't even manage cash in at the death.
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When he came in, we had to bat overs. If it meant ending up with a strike-rate of 60-ish while playing the anchor role, so be it. He and Jake obviously decided early on that Oram would be the aggressor as the innings wore on, and besides, McCullum wasn't timing it all that well.

I was planning to log on after 25 overs and apologise to all cricket fans for the utterly abysmal display of international batting put on by the Slack Craps, but Oram's fantastic innings helped me feel a bit happier about the whole scenario. 210 is defendable, no doubt about that, but it could have been so much more if we had any idea how to start an innings.

Big ups to the English bowlers for the first 15 overs, really putting us on the back foot, but our top order's lack of form is about as exposed as Jennifer Hawkins on that catwalk a couple of years back. Fleming yet again took an age to get going, but it wasn't so much his lack of timing and footwork which was the real killer (although it obviously had a big bearing) - both he and Fulton got out to completely unnecessary shots. Fulton's sin was probably the more unforgivable as he'd just hit the previous ball for six, yet did not look for the slightest hint of a change of pace from Lewis.

So what's the issue? Well, duhhhh, it's form. But who's fault is that? Part-player, part-Bracewell. It's all well and good to install a rotation system IF you have the player base to implement it, but anyone within New Zealand (and international) circles knows this clearly isn't the case. As such, Braces' has a serious case to answer if Fleming, in particular, does not find his touch soon - those two ODIs could have been very valuable. It was as though Fleming had just been introduced to the off-side for the first time today.

I know they're tail-enders, but I was a bit frustrated by Bond and Vettori's batting efforts. It's obvious Flintoff is going to go full (as he had been doing all day) so I failed to see the reasoning behind their continual stepping to leg - particularly in Vettori's case, as he was putting himself outside the reach of the ball, except the one he smacked straight through to Nixon.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
Fiery said:
I know what you mean. You should see what happens when the All Blacks lose. Everyone goes running out of their houses flailing their arms in the end and pushing the panic button which is what has happened now that the Black Caps have lost 4 in a row.

Aargh!.. another crap umpiring decision one replay could have avoided.
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Oh well, it didn't cost you many. Cue the unedifying collapse ......
 
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