*Official* Match 2 - Kenya v New Zealand

[wellAlbidarned]

Hope Kenya try bowl full and straight at Guppers. Then at least we'll get a bit of a show.

 

[slugger]

wow... terrible. terrible, terrible...

 

[Meridio]

Hmm...wonder if Guptill will have time to get to 30 and out before we win.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

He's trying his best.

 

[BeeGee]

Hope Kenya try bowl full and straight at Guppers. Then at least we'll get a bit of a show.

They're bowling short and wide at him.

 

[Prince EWS]

This has been so, so bad. Hopefully they get a bit better as the tournament goes on; Scotland and Afghanistan definitely showed far greater aptitude for cricket in the IC final IMO.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Every time a cricinfo commentator says the ball was "hit into orbit" a kitten dies somewhere in the world.

 

[Bun]

Kenya makin a nice case for the format for the next world cup

 

[BoyBrumby]

Against the "so called" expert's predictions, the seamers have taken all the wickets and the spinners have taken none.

Not a great showing from Kenya, but the NZ seamers bowled well. They bowled full, at the stumps, giving very little width

PEWS made the point, but a few of the wickets came from legside-ish half-volleys. Against decent batsmen a lot of the wicket taking deliveries would've been clipped for 4. It was just that Kenya's batting wasn't quite of the required calibre.

 

[Prince EWS]

This should hopefully give my bet on Guptill to be NZ's highest tournament runscorer a little head start, anyway...

 

[Bahnz]

I know it's been said a million times, but 14 teams is too many. 12 is ideal.

 

[social]

Seen enough - bring on the quarter finals

 

[Zinzan]

PEWS made the point, but a few of the wickets came from legside-ish half-volleys. Against decent batsmen a lot of the wicket taking deliveries would've been clipped for 4. It was just that Kenya's batting wasn't quite of the required calibre.

^ 100%. Let's not forget, India got 350 against them on this same pitch a couple of days back

 

[BeeGee]

PEWS made the point, but a few of the wickets came from legside-ish half-volleys. Against decent batsmen a lot of the wicket taking deliveries would've been clipped for 4. It was just that Kenya's batting wasn't quite of the required calibre.

Bowling full and at the stumps is the plan for Kenya, not necessarily for any other team. And it worked perfectly.

 

[thierry henry]

Guptill doing his usual party trick of being really good at hitting opening bowlers back over their heads. Looks awesome but unfortunately apart from that he's not that good.

 

[thierry henry]

lol McCullum is batting horribly. Still reckon this pitch is a bit all over the place

 

[BoyBrumby]

Fair to say McCullum (B) not quite timing his cross-bat shots today.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Guptill doing his usual party trick of being really good at hitting opening bowlers back over their heads. Looks awesome but unfortunately apart from that he's not that good.

As has been pointed out many times before, he's doing a decent enough job, and it's not like we're spoiled with great openers.

 

[Mike5181]

As has been pointed out many times before, he's doing a decent enough job, and it's not like we're spoiled with great openers.

Agreed, Guptill is the last player we should be moaning about tbh.

 

[thierry henry]

As has been pointed out many times before, he's doing a decent enough job, and it's not like we're spoiled with great openers.

I'm not saying drop him, just that he's incongruously awesome at one extremely flashy part of the game, hence the tendency to think that he has more ability than he really does.