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Scaly piscine
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Hmm wonder if Ricky the chimp can conjure up another stupid arrogant declaration and end up sharing a series against lowly New Zealand...
Maybe not.
Maybe not.
Zinzan
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That would have been quite the piss-take if they had declared on the hat-trick ball
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Zinzan
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Yeah, like NZ have got a chance to get 400+ in the 2nd innings against this Australian attack
Have you watched the series to date?
KiWiNiNjA
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Yeah, like NZ have got a chance to get 400+ in the 2nd innings against this Australian attack
JBH001
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I cant think of anyone worse. I dont even know why he is still bowling. He is just rubbish.
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JBH001
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Wont be here to watch the afternoon session - need to buy a frying pan at the Warehouse - so I will be spared further pain from this bollocking. I'd be slightly up if I felt that our batters had enough spine to put up a decent fight in the last inning, or even - if the stars are aligned - to draw this game. But I dont, so I'm not.
IMHO main reason is bowler workload. Minor reason is to avoid *faint* chance of the unthinkable (injury to a couple of bowlers, others bowl poorly, NZ bat well).Why do they not declare?
This summer Ponting has timed some declarations to give bowlers 1 - 1.5 sessions to stumps, then bowlers rest overnight and come back to finish off the innings in the morning. I suspect the Oz plan today was always to bat somewhere between lunch and post-lunch drinks break, then opening bowlers have normal spell with a few overs from Johnson and Hauritz before tea, then after tea Hauritz takes one end, and quicks get one 40 min spell each. So at most the quicks will bowl 12 overs today.
2 things the New Zealand selectors should have learnt from this test:
1. Martin is WAY past his prime (not that his prime was ever actually that good, bar those few tests again SA) and should never play international cricket again.
2. For all the hard work and effort Patel puts in, he simply isn't good enough, especially on NZ pitches.
I hope like hell Martin is gone after this dismal performance.
1. Martin is WAY past his prime (not that his prime was ever actually that good, bar those few tests again SA) and should never play international cricket again.
2. For all the hard work and effort Patel puts in, he simply isn't good enough, especially on NZ pitches.
I hope like hell Martin is gone after this dismal performance.
i agree with u on both. patel needs to find the form that had him running through the sl side 6 months ago. few months of first class cricket should fix that and he is only young so he'll come back stronger.
