***Official West Indies in New Zealand***

[James]

Na Mills was ****. Vettori was way better than all of the pacers besides a spell by Franklin and a couple by O'Brien.

Quite surprised Ryder didn't get a bowl actually given the number of overs in the innings. I thought he bowled quite well in Australia and might have bowled more in NZ conditions.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Selfish captain, gave himself 50 overs for only 2 wickets.

Haha, did you watch Mills bowl?
52 overs from Vettori, but also 46 from Patel.
Does Mills bowl spin?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Don't care what the betting odds are.

NZ are still more likely to get bowled out in 60 overs than they are to score over 5 an over. That isn't baiting it's a blatant fact. Dunno what Benn's like but Gayle will be difficult to attack and the only reason teams have scored 300+ so far (at less than 3 an over) is because of someone scoring a century to bat around.

 

[Bahnz]

I think that'll be it. No way New Zealand will go for this with one of our stone wallers gone.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Now thats the sort of LBW that works for the referral system.

 

[Smudge]

The "Report Post" feature is there for a reason - use it. It doesn't help the forum or yourself to respond in an aggressive manner. As has been said many times over, we can't read every single post looking for problems. We rely a lot on people reporting posts and making the moderators aware so it can be looked into. And FYI, we haven't had any reported posts about SP for a long time now.

After the events of the last two weeks (with regards to another matter), I have little faith in contacting the moderators, as there is clear bias towards some members over others.

And the reason no one reports posts about SP anymore is because, quite frankly, it gets us nowhere. What reprimands has he ever received from the moderators for his trolling?

 

[Bahnz]

How batting really well out there. Anyone think he'll make 30?

 

[James]

After the events of the last two weeks (with regards to another matter), I have little faith in contacting the moderators, as there is clear bias towards some members over others.

And the reason no one reports posts about SP anymore is because, quite frankly, it gets us nowhere. What reprimands has he ever received from the moderators for his trolling?

That's your opinion and you're obviously entitled to that, but we address all reported posts sent and a group moderator decision is made on whether any action will be taken if the matter is deemed serious enough. That is always between the member concerned and the moderators and that's where it stops. As you obviously know, the moderator team is made up of senior members that have been around the forum for many years and everyone of them gets the same say. Obviously sometimes there will be cases where member(s) feel a level of action should be taken but the moderators disagree, but that's just the way it is.

I don't mean this to sound rude, but it's unfair to SP to mention anything in the public forums concerning his posts. The same would apply to any other member - yourself included.

I would hope that if you want to discuss this further that you could take it to email (moderators@cricketweb.net) so the people who want to continue discussing the cricket can do so.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

How batting really well out there. Anyone think he'll make 30?

Almost time for him to gift his wicket away.

I hope he can atleast make a 50 though.

 

[Bahnz]

Really don't want Flynn to get too carried away. If things turn sour, he's one of the few batsmen I trust to shepherd us through to the close of play.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Really don't want Flynn to get too carried away. If things turn sour, he's one of the few batsmen I trust to shepherd us through to the close of play.

Yeah, but isn't it amazing how good he looks now.

I can understand how the selectors showed such faith in him. I'm sure most CWers doubted his position in the side when he first came in, but he has really become good of late and it looks like he might occupy the number 3 spot for many years to come.

Could be interesting if we could get to tea at about 100/1.

 

[Bahnz]

Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. How long until he offers another one?

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

ffs, both How and Flynn looking crazy loose here.

Shocking drop catch.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

How looking as if he doesn't want to play against India when March comes around...

Another appalling drop there. Mind you, How did Edwards a favour and he gets one back off Edwards' bowling (albeit via the butterfingers of Jerome Taylor!)

 

[Bahnz]

Good running between the wickets here. Would've been nice to have seen a bit more of this in the first innings, and hopefully we'll get a bit more in future.

 

[pskov]

Benn bowling just looks.... odd. Someone that tall shouldn't be a spin bowler, it's almost against some immutable law of cricket.

 

[James]

Required run-rate of 5.84 now. Need one of these two to start looking for boundaries soon.

 

[Bahnz]

Required run-rate of 5.84 now. Need one of these two to start looking for boundaries soon.

I don't think so. It's more important not to lose wickets. If we need 6.5 off the last 30, and are still only one down, I'd give us an outside chance. But if we lose a couple of wickets then that's it, and it may even allow the windies an opportunity to try and apply some pressure.

 

[James]

I don't think so. It's more important not to lose wickets. If we need 6.5 off the last 30, and are still only one down, I'd give us an outside chance. But if we lose a couple of wickets then that's it, and it may even allow the windies an opportunity to try and apply some pressure.

Fair-point, but we don't want to let it get too high that it puts heaps of pressure on the middle/lower order to score quickly. Hopefully we can keep scoring at 4-5 an over for a while and build from there.

 

[JimmyGS]

Definite shows off attempted aggression from How in this over.